Looks Like NBA Live 13 is a Downloadable Game

[BiggD]

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I feel its the only move they could make to corner any type of market(if any)

1. Sell the game base cheap on digital download
2. Downloadable content-- let the people decide how much they are really willing to spend on a game..Retro uniform packs,courts etc. Hell,they could even add a sounds and commentry add-on pack


Not a bad marketing strategy IMO

[alexthegreat]

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If they promise to keep supporting it with gameplay updates, I might consider dropping $5-$10 for what I saw today just to try it out lol.

[JimLeavy59]

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I feel its the only move they could make to corner any type of market(if any)

1. Sell the game base cheap on digital download
2. Downloadable content-- let the people decide how much they are really willing to spend on a game..Retro uniform packs,courts etc. Hell,they could even add a sounds and commentry add-on pack


Not a bad marketing strategy IMO

[Pappy Knuckles]

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That screen doesn't have much pop to it. EA is usually pretty good about having slick looking menus and such, but that looks about as bare bones as it gets.

[Jukeman]

Free for Playstation +

But they really should do a free beta if they are really interested in trying to revive this series. It'll be a good way to give back to the community and gain their trust back.

I'll doubt they'll make a profit off of this anyways..

[TreyIM2]

I fully believe this game will be a "cheap" DLC, only, but I think EA's angle may be to release this game at a low price point because it's just not worthy of $60, when 2K13 is beyond worthy of that price, so to not have to cancel AGAIN and then work their tails off to get what's in Live 13 to a worthy $60 price point (or more - next gen consoles) for Live 14.
I do wonder if this can back fire if it is their goal because 1 year may not be enough time to beef up the foundation of Live 13 to a worthy Live 14 and the consumer scarring could be tough to overcome.

I really wonder what happened between MW and EA after Live 10. If EA and their now proven not-so-wise idea of Elite 11 were the reason he ended up leaving and going back to 2K, I wonder how they feel now. Live 10 was such a great stepping stone for them. All they had to do was let MW continue to drive the vehicle and they would now be at the promise land and then some but what do I know. I wasn't there....

[Jukeman]

I really wonder what happened between MW and EA after Live 10. If EA and their now proven not-so-wise idea of Elite 11 were the reason he ended up leaving and going back to 2K, I wonder how they feel now. Live 10 was such a great stepping stone for them. All they had to do was let MW continue to drive the vehicle and they would now be at the promise land and then some but what do I know. I wasn't there....

When I first heard the news about MW, I knew something was up. Most guys wrote it off as nothing but I read the signs.

This qoute got my attention:

"After NBA Live 10 wrapped up and we started going through the pre-production planning phase for '11, we held several meetings to discuss the future of the franchise. After going through those meetings, it became very clear that the vision I had for the game was different from where the leadership wanted to take it. I parted ways with EA shortly after and came back on-board with the NBA 2K team last November."

[Feldman011teen]

So I spoke to Katherine Coulthart, who is supposedly in charge of NBA Live at EA, and this is what she sent me.

"Cory-
Thanks for your interest in NBA LIVE 13. We have yet to officially announce the title and we have not released any details regarding the game. "

Maybe they're willing to scrap the game again then?

[Caveman24]

I think based of the video we seen it needs to be worth around $10 that will be great marketing for them a much cheaper game like 2k used to do when there games were $20 if EA does that they need to start working on Live 14 RIGHT NOW give the fans some DLC update Live 13 roster this and that but move on from Live 13 and focus on next year its not a beat from long ago because they have the Nets new logo so ok EA you failed but this doesn't have to be the nail in the coffin take whatever positive feed back you get from Live this year and work on Live 14 right away get some new devs in there to i dont care if you gotta go get guys that worked on the older 2k games like 2k6 or 2k7 hell bring in some guys from Sony NBA 09 just do something stop waiting till the last minute

[liberaluser]

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When I first heard the news about MW, I knew something was up. Most guys wrote it off as nothing but I read the signs.

This qoute got my attention:

"After NBA Live 10 wrapped up and we started going through the pre-production planning phase for '11, we held several meetings to discuss the future of the franchise. After going through those meetings, it became very clear that the vision I had for the game was different from where the leadership wanted to take it. I parted ways with EA shortly after and came back on-board with the NBA 2K team last November."

That's because EA didn't want to listen to Wang and actually put out a better product to compete with 2K and raise sales. They just wanted a gimmick in the controls to get Jam and Street arcade players on board.

Guess that was a pretty bad idea, letting the hockey guy design an NBA game.

[Cheetah Bird]

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Not too familiar with DL'ble games. Does this mean there won't be as much content or something? Will the graphics suffer? It seems like they're going to have to chop the price down.

[BiggD]

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So charging $15 and allowing people to download extra packs as they wish is laughable???

i'm not saying this idea makes the game better. I just think its a smart idea for a game that obviously has no chance of competing with the 2k juggernaut!

[JimLeavy59]

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So charging $15 and allowing people to pay for the rest of the game is laughable?

i'm not saying this idea makes the game better. I just think its a smart idea for a game that obviously has no chance of competing with the 2k juggernaut!

Fixed and the answer to that is

[DaveDQ]

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Another element here is that the game is not listed in EA's Season Pass. If you are a subscriber to EA's Season pass, only Madden and NHL 13 are listed.

Madden in August and NHL in September. There is nothing for October.

[barimanlhs]

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Another element here is that the game is not listed in EA's Season Pass. If you are a subscriber to EA's Season pass, only Madden and NHL 13 are listed.

Madden in August and NHL in September. There is nothing for October.

Everything is pointing to this game either getting pushed back...which they cant afford to do or being canned completely and starting over for next gen.

In all honesty that might be whats best of EA and Live if they spend the next 2 or 3 years (assuming the next consoles are coming out around that time) and come out with a quailty game, that runs smoothly, looks great and plays properly. Even if it is without every mode (which is an EA thing to do) at the very least it could be a solid foundation to build from.

Hopefully the next gen brings back some more NBA games, maybe Sony will give it a shot again, maybe Microsoft will try something. We can only hope!