NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

[yungflo]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

I wonder how much money EA had to pay ESPN and the NBA for failing to put a product out? I know that when the NBA makes a deal with EA/2K they have a clause about HAVING to make a certain release date or face a fine. I bet missing the entire year is in there too. I wonder if ESPN has anything similar in their contract with EA.

I'm thinking they have lost more than 100million. We should write to Kotaku or something to do an investigative piece on how much they lost, how much espn has lost, how much they had to pay for license music to the game, game development cost, etc.

Imagine working crunch time for thsi game and not getting OT then finally realizing its canceled. Man, if I'm an eas employee, I'm livid right now!

[Bulls321974]

Not saying that, just saying super unlikely. Take a little loss such as nba live(expected annual sales anywhere between 1-3mil) compared to the giant fifa..I think they'll take that..not kindly, but its something they'll live with.


Someone needs to be fired though. I don't like people losing their jobs but someone needs to be fiered, and they need to bring in a fresh breathe of sim air lol. Someone who knows what they are doing. I think they bbrought in the nhl guy for elite 11 lol..not smart.

Maybe some young college kid who's been working for them and is ready for the next thing idk. just something

Seems like nobody there really got a clue how to become competitive again. That's almost eerie...

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

2k sells 2-3mil after a year.

Soccer is by far the biggest sport in the world. No comparison. That is true. But try again on this number here, sir...

[shadio5]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

Where are people getting that EA can't use or doesn't have the rights to Live 10 code?

"reverse"

Where are people getting that EA "CAN" use or "DOES" have the rights to Live 10 codes?.............lol

We know nothing. All we can do is speculate and assume. We will never know what happened with the nba live10 specs to the game. Maybe there was a under the table agreement to all parties that once were done, were done.

buisness runs deep. Very very deep.....its never a simple answer, because we will never HAVE all the answers...period


VC/2k sports fan

[Retropyro]

I'm thinking they have lost more than 100million. We should write to Kotaku or something to do an investigative piece on how much they lost, how much espn has lost, how much they had to pay for license music to the game, game development cost, etc.

Imagine working crunch time for thsi game and not getting OT then finally realizing its canceled. Man, if I'm an eas employee, I'm livid right now!

If your one of the EA Sports employees who worked on Live you shouldn't be livid. You should be embarrassed with what you produced and worried about getting canned along with the game.

[yungflo]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

Soccer is by far the biggest sport in the world. No comparison. That is true. But try again on this number here, sir...

Ok, they sold 4m last year..

Fifa sold 3m in its first week

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

Imagine working crunch time for thsi game and not getting OT then finally realizing its canceled. Man, if I'm an eas employee, I'm livid right now!

Why? The reason it's cancelled is because THEY didn't get the job done. Do you think they would want to put a product only for it to fail? If anything, they are either breathing a sigh of relief OR worried about keeping their jobs...

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

"reverse"

Where are people getting that EA "CAN" use or "DOES" have the rights to Live 10 codes?.............lol

Uh... Because THEY OWN IT!

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

Ok, they sold 4m last year..

Fifa sold 3m in its first week

Make that more like 5 million, and no one denies soccer dwarfs every other sport. There's no argument there. But 2-3 million is a far cry from 4-5 million. That's all I was saying.

[yungflo]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

If your one of the EA Sports employees who worked on Live you shouldn't be livid. You should be embarrassed with what you produced and worried about getting canned along with the game.

When you have more than 70 plus members working on an annual project, it isn't going to be a great project. They chose to hire more hands instead of an intimate small team. Not the employee's fault, just the employer and maybe the person who oversees the whole entire project, which I think should be fired.

[DickDalewood]

Re: NBA Live 13 Canceled

Lol. Every single thing they have done and shown over the past few months pointed towards this happening, and any time any of us brought up the obvious, we were called 2K fanboys or Live haters.

No, our nostrils simply work and we could smell this disaster for what it is; a pile of crap.

It's a sad day for basketball fans, and another blow to this generation of option-less sports genres. That said, the sugar-coating and self-convincing that was going on wasn't any better. This was a clear catastrophe from the beginning.

[Boilerbuzz]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

When you have more than 70 plus members working on an annual project, it isn't going to be a great project. They chose to hire more hands instead of an intimate small team. Not the employee's fault, just the employer and maybe the person who oversees the whole entire project, which I think should be fired.

??

I would take them YEARS to make a game of this magnitude with a small team. 70 team members isn't all that big either. You're reaching a little bit.

[Feldman011teen]

What's funny is EA is paying for a license that they don't even use now.

[yungflo]

Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

Make that more like 5 million, and no one denies soccer dwarfs every other sport. There's no argument there. But 2-3 million is a far cry from 4-5 million. That's all I was saying.

everywhere says 4, no source says 5.

But yeah, I get your point.

But with the competition, I think they lose 2-3 million.

When live was around, 2-3 million for an nba title was a success for either them or 2k

[Jukeman]

Damn..

All those hours spent on faces goes right down the drain.













LMAO!!!


-Juke