NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

[HeavenlyTouch]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

All this article did was make me more frustrated with the company and the game..

1. What is he supposed to answer to these questions? It's all politically correct.. "yes of course we messed up, and yeah we're not working on fixing it because we care more about your money".. well that is definitely not going to happen so he'll give the answer everyone wants to hear "we have a top team working on it".

2. They have been using the same online code since Dreamcast? They've been receiving complaints about their online play for many years.. why is this the first year that they are finally 'addressing the issue'? (Which they haven't done so yet other than claim to do so in this article).. claiming they re-wrote the code and such and didn't have time to test it.. you shouldn't release a half done game and expect that the patches will take care of it because all you do is piss off your client base and make them wait..

[HeavenlyTouch]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

I would definitely like to see a postmortem report on how they continue to develop this game year after year and not fix the online issues. I mean the gameplay is fine, stop re inventing it and polish it and reallly fix the online. Then go back to adding features once the game actually works online as intended.

For me I look at it this way, if the gameplay is solid why not fix the one issue thats been bogging you down for years, instead of adding an existing element like online association when the online portion doesn't even work? This is not rocket science, maybe they need dedi servers. At least they to my knowledge I would think they would be better equipped to solve issues that arise quicker than having to wait 2 - 6 months to get the game somewhat playable online. I really want to play the game online but its been collecting dust for about two weeks now due to online being a wash.

While I agree with all of the things you said.. your casual gamers care about 'new features'.. people buy games when they know something new is in it.. it's the biggest gimmick there is.. to a hardcore guy such as yourself you will want some improved gameplay/animations and to fix the issues that were persistent in past titles.. but for the guy who buys it every few years or they want that person to get back to buying their title.. they will put things like 'my legend' for some guys who might be retro and consider going back and playing as some of the oldschool guys and such.. features sell games.. thats the truth.. in reality.. COD has been the same game for years now with the exact same engine, but they add some new classes and maps and people think act like it's a brand new game..

[ecworldwide]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

They have a new article about online and it says they took some online features out because of they where running on a old dreamcast code. But may be added next year but, my question is if you knew this 2K Why charge everyone $60 dollars for any unfinished game!?


THATS NOT RIGHT AND THATS NOT FAIR!

[ecworldwide]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

SIM NATION ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION AND I HOPE ITS NOT TRUE. IS 2K MUTATING INTO EA? ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

[Ramboooo]

This is fine if it's not in vain and the code is cleaned up ... 1 step back to go 2 steps forward kinda thing. 2K11 Online did have full features, but Crew was far from perfect with the whole mode overrun by height-hacked uncapped 99 cheaters. If this was the only realistic way to clean it up then so be it.

NBA CREW 2K13 who's with me

[ksolo12]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

As soon as they mentioned Dreamcast and same servers in the article I knew it was bad. Every year the online sucks and it seems like this year the community has finally got their attention.

[MarvellousOne]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

Just tried 4 times in a row to play online with one of my friends and we got disconnected every time in the first quarter...I thought the patch was suppose to fix some of these issues...not sure what is going on with 2K and these online issues but maybe they just need a whole new online server.

[qnzballa5]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

2k12 is a Fail Online Period...

[NINJAK2]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

Man they just now switched from Dreamcast online code?..Jeesh!

[Blak_Baki_Hanma]

Sooooo you take away CREW MODE because your subpar online system won't support it... but you want to charge EXTRA for DLC which introduces ADDITIONAL BURDENS to your already malfunctioning online system??

JUST CALL US "SUCKERS" IF THAT'S WHAT YOU HONESTLY THINK WE ARE.

THIS WAS MY LAST YEAR PURCHASING NBA2broKen.

I WILL BITE THE BULLET UNTIL A LEGITIMATE, REPUTABLE COMPANY OFFERS AN "AS-ADVERTISED" NBA GAME.

http://www.operationsports.com/Blak_Baki_Hanma/blog/15317-nba2k12-and-the-3pt-shot/

[coachimclutch504]

Re: NBA 2K12 Works Overtime With Online Issues, My Crew Not Gone Forever

GIVE US SIM LOBBY'S OR SIM RANKED GAMES

[ManiacMatt1782]

Re: Kotaku's article on 2k12 online problems

How is that, they tried to so something in a year that should have taken at lease 2 then they give us a patch 9 days later, yeah 2k owes us, some of you need to grow up, every modern game offers DLC and somehow 2k is trying to screw us.

Someone completely missed the point. They removed features, gave us an online association with no customizability. The same problems with the "old database are just as prevelant in the new one, with some new additional problems. This has nothing to do with the legends pack, but throwing something like that out, when you have ruined 3 online modes, and taken all custmizability away from the handed leaves a real sour taste in the consumers mouth.

I'm gonna be honest, if I knew that online leagues were gone, online association stripped all control from admins, and they removed lobbies, I would have passed on 2k12. The legends are a nice touch, but I like to run leagues with my friends in sports games. 2k11 had an excellent league system, it wasn't completely perfect, but it was, BY FAR, THE BEST ONE OUT THERE! Scrapping it and leaving this online association that sims games, does not give you an ability to reset, won't let you temporarily boot a guy who can't play his games so the party who can play in the time frame, so the other guy can try against the computer, if you boot, they are gone forever. The ridiculous locked schedule to begin with. The lack of using our own slider sets to compensate for the lack of fatigue, or the obscene amount of bad shots that happen to drop. Just too many things wrong. What exactly did they give us in working condition, that should have taken them 2 years but they finished in 1?

[swimfunk]

I still find it funny that Online Association has 40 eligible seasons but with the time frame of advances you will only make it season 10-12 by the time 2k13 hits. The lack of customization in "private" associations demonstrates their flat out lies in the Online Association insight. The only thing that seperates a private and public OA is a password. I'm not even going to get into the "launching soon" message for nba2k.com.
2K completely ruined an online community. The only method of communication is twitter, in which Ronnie answers questions that have already been answered and posts his my player scoring records. He's completely acted like 2K online is in a good state. The 2K forums are a complete joke and have been abandoned in hopes for nba2k.com.
All in all, it could have been a lot smoother. 2K took away all the tools of a good league that made them the best in sports gaming (sliders, someone to re-enter lg, reset gm, flex schedule, etc)

[MG2PRime]

Ask Thomas, why nba 2k12 on the ps2 is not good.