NBA 2K12 Legendary Teams Will Be Playable Online, Via DLC

[eko718]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

How is letting leaked footage run rampant bad marketing? If anything it's letting the community do the work for them.

You misunderstood my post.

[Giammajo]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

Which part of this sentence makes you think that? "Play online with the legendary teams from NBAs greatest!"

Yea I saw that line, but in context of the whole "showcase" screen I don't think it explicitly implies that we can use the teams in ranked or even unranked games. "Set in NYC's iconic Times Square" doesn't leave much room for games that take place in arenas, and there is no mention of 5v5 anywhere. It might just be 2v2 or 3v3 from those legends teams on the blacktop.

I hope I'm wrong! But even if we can use the full legend teams in a 5 on 5 game, it seems like we can only do it on this times square court, against other legendary teams.

[MrBigShot1]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

I hope it's free. We all pay the full price of the game, no need to milk the community. They will get plenty of sales, just like 2k11, possibly more with the lockout looming.

If not, garbage decision on 2k's part. HOPEFULLY, it is free and they just didn't have ample disc space.

[2slik]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

I hope it's free. We all pay the full price of the game, no need to milk the community. They will get plenty of sales, just like 2k11, possibly more with the lockout looming.

If not, garbage decision on 2k's part. HOPEFULLY, it is free and they just didn't have ample disc space.

Don't kid yourself.

[wizzleman]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

Yea I saw that line, but in context of the whole "showcase" screen I don't think it explicitly implies that we can use the teams in ranked or even unranked games. "Set in NYC's iconic Times Square" doesn't leave much room for games that take place in arenas, and there is no mention of 5v5 anywhere. It might just be 2v2 or 3v3 from those legends teams on the blacktop.

I hope I'm wrong! But even if we can use the full legend teams in a 5 on 5 game, it seems like we can only do it on this times square court, against other legendary teams.

I don't see why some of you would even think that we won't be able to play a exhibition match, I'm pretty sure we can because it wouldn't even make sense for us to be able to play 2v2 and 3v3 but not a regular 5v5 which I'm pretty sure 2k knows that that is the main thing we want to do.

[SdotThaDon]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

Never know, EA learned from Wang and maybe Wang picked up a few tricks from EA as well. Hope not though, not really into paying extra for things already on disk. To some of these companies dlc stands for download locked content.

[basketballfreak24]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

oh well. i guess this is as close as we get to using legends in unranked or ranked games. seems like the controls video is never coming and so much for the online association insight. i didnt preorder 2k but i plan to get it but im sure about to lose focus from the 2k hype machine when battlefield 3 online demo comes out thursday.

[2slik]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

Never know, EA learned from Wang and maybe Wang picked up a few tricks from EA as well. Hope not though, not really into paying extra for things already on disk. To some of these companies dlc stands for download locked content.

You think this is just a thing that EA only do? Please. 2K got wise. They know a lot of their customers would walk on hot coals for them, so why not make 'em?

[basehead617]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

oh well. i guess this is as close as we get to using legends in unranked or ranked games. seems like the controls video is never coming and so much for the online association insight. i didnt preorder 2k but i plan to get it but im sure about to lose focus from the 2k hype machine when battlefield 3 online demo comes out thursday.

Uhm, the game doesn't come out for another week.

There are other insights coming.

What's with people having this weird notion that all the insights finish up weeks before the release?

[SdotThaDon]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

You think this is just a thing that EA only do? Please. 2K got wise. They know a lot of their customers would walk on hot coals for them, so why not make 'em?

No not at all, but I've been an EA customer since the early 90's all the way to the present. You know like I know EA been nickel and diming us for years now, they're not the only ones but they are the best at it.

[myownsun]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

I would never play a mode like this even it were free, but I would buy it just to support 2k.

[basehead617]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

No not at all, but I've been an EA customer since the early 90's all the way to the present' You know like I know EA been nickel and diming us for years now, they're not the only ones but they are the best at it.

Why is it nickel and diming to release a downloadable fun add-on product for additional $?

Unlike microtransactions in a lot of other games, you don't gain any advantage over others by getting it.. and it's not something they crippled out of the regular game that they're now forcing you to pay for..

Its another product that's not as big a deal as the main game and they'll probably charge very little for it..

[Giammajo]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

I don't see why some of you would even think that we won't be able to play a exhibition match, I'm pretty sure we can because it wouldn't even make sense for us to be able to play 2v2 and 3v3 but not a regular 5v5 which I'm pretty sure 2k knows that that is the main thing we want to do.

Appreciate the optimism and I hope your right. I'm simply not convinced from that one screenshot. I'll hold off until an official announcement before getting to excited.

You think this is just a thing that EA only do? Please. 2K got wise. They know a lot of their customers would walk on hot coals for them, so why not make 'em?

No reason to bash 2k from this one picture. We have no idea whether this mode was too big to fit on the retail disk, how much it will cost, or the specifics of the mode. I'd wait until we have all the information before saying 2k is making us walk on hot coals.

[2slik]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

No reason to bash 2k from this one picture. We have no idea whether this mode was too big to fit on the retail disk, how much it will cost, or the specifics of the mode. I'd wait until we have all the information before saying 2k is making us walk on hot coals.

How is saying 2K making their customers walk on hot coals, bashing them? I'm applauding them for the shrewdness. Last week we hear that Legends won't be playable online, which sparks an outcry from the 2K community so 2K respond by giving the customers what they desperately want, at a price. Pure marketing genius.

[SdotThaDon]

Re: NBA 2k12 Legends Showcase (online)

Why is it nickel and diming to release a downloadable fun add-on product for additional $?

Unlike microtransactions in a lot of other games, you don't gain any advantage over others by getting it.. and it's not something they crippled out of the regular game that they're now forcing you to pay for..

Its another product that's not as big a deal as the main game and they'll probably charge very little for it..

In EA's case look on the marketplace or psn and you'll see what I mean. This is not to the same extreme, just a little different from what we've come to expect from 2k. I'm trying to withhold judgement until I hear the whole story. But to me dlc is not a 10mb file meant to unlock stuff on a disk I've already payed for.