The only reason I thought about buying it would have been for this. And it turns out being the reason I, and everyone from my association passed. You hear that 2k, that's at least 15 sales right there. $150. We would have loved to take the classic teams against each other. That actually would have brought new life to the game for us. I just don't understand why they would do this? Can you think of any game where it doesn't give you an option to play against friends, and only allows you to play with randoms? I can't because its a bad idea. And one I would have hoped a major developer/publisher like Visual Concepts/ 2k would have been too smart to make.