Damn, guess they will not get to make that big splash in sales that the OS staff promised.
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Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned
Can't say I was completely surprised to read this news but it's odd that they've released a trailer a couple of weeks before its cancellation. What I don't understand is if they wanted to continue building from Elite 11 so bad then why did they change studios? They lost precious time to continue making the game from going to Tiburon, hiring people and make them understand a flawed code when if the team in EA Canada continued making the game they should be having a decent game by now since they always talk about "three-year plans". I don't know how they'll recover from this but they need to bring their A game if they want to have interest from people and their own fans.Comment
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Poetic Justice for 2k for when EA bought the NFL license. EA even had M Wang and was unable to keep him. EA was beat fair and square on this one and was unable to acquire an exclusive NBA license or acquire Take Two (which it tried to do right as the 2008 economic meltdown occurred).Comment
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Bottom line is we, the basketball community and our reactions are what fueled this cancelationComment
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Gone Gone Gone... wow I remember Live when I was a teen now it's done at least for this year.. SMH I always 2k anyway but I feel bad for the Fans of NBA Live.NBA:ATLANTA HAWKS
NFL:OAKLAND RAIDERS
NHL:PHILADELPHIA FLYERS
MLB:PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
NCAAFB:PENN ST (Jerry's Gone PSU Moves on)
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Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned
So we've got a poster STILL defending EA's Live team after all this, which is just embarassing (seriously, does your dad work there or something?), and another playing the "OS is in EA's back pocket" card (despite multiple mods in this thread alone raking EA over the coals for this).
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Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned
Just think about what would happen to madden if they lost their exclusivity to it. Might go the way of nba live. EA has just not been able to put out good games for these next gen systems.Comment
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Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned
Well, let's at least be fair... FIFA and NHL are VERY good games, and EA as a company puts out a ton of other great non-sports games.
Obviously Live is garbage, and Madden is... ok... but let's not throw the entire company under the same blanket here.Comment
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Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned
This argument really needs to die. Fine, they didn't work for 3 years. They took some time off. But it's not as if they started from scratch. There was a functional game there already. They had a framework to work with. With 70 people for 8 months and a headstart, there is little excuse for not putting out SOMETHING. So lets just stop that argument here and now. Time wasn't an excuse for Elite and they aren't using it here now. The game was just not up to snuff. Accept it and move on.Comment
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Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned
They went with Elite because they and to go in a new direction. They were already committed to that had have to see it through. People have fallen for the "next gen engine" bit for too long with the Live engine. Live 10 is the last you will see of the Live engine that has been in place for quite too long.
And they will recover. You have far too many people. That care only about the label. Not what's actually in the package. Just traverse old threads and look at the people ready and willing to buy the game knowing full well it was likely to be the inferior game. The same people who's acceptance lead to the denial that things needed to change for that game. So they will be fine. They could release a text based basketball game, and some people will buy it anyway talking about how great the menus look...Comment
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Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned
I think they just don't get it. Every time they make a decision to change their progress they set themselves, the game, and consumers back. They aren't going to make any money until they accept that they can't make a competitive product in one year of development. With annual releases, there are going to be bumps in the road, but they seem to have driven off a cliff. They need to look at what they did from Live 08 to Live 10. It took three dev cycles to get a servicable game that actually had potential to become great.
Live 13 was developed with a release in mind, so the devs had deadlines and probably made sacrifices in the game to try and hit them on time. All of that now goes to waste because even with another cycle of development, it will still be a first year game. EA could have planned a two year cycle and the devs wouldn't have needed to make as many sacrifices. They aren't going to be able to progress until they can release a product.Comment
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Re: NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned
Facts are the facts...
So we've got a poster STILL defending EA's Live team after all this, which is just embarassing (seriously, does your dad work there or something?), and another playing the "OS is in EA's back pocket" card (despite multiple mods in this thread alone raking EA over the coals for this).
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