With all due respect my friend, there is a MOUNTAIN of evidence on: this message board, on LD2K's facebook post about crews, on Twitter, and on Youtube that suggests your viewpoint puts you in the minority on this new format. Once again though man, I respect what you're saying, I think most of us posting in these crew threads love competition; and going up against other players. I have played literally hundreds of crew games in the past, and I know that for me, and all my friends that played together we loved the format how it was in 2k11. Thing is, it's just not practical how they have decided to do it. For example, in my crew we had 8 people. However, with everyone being involved with classes, working,time with gf's and all that it's rare you get 5 people all online consistently. Sure you can get 3 or 4 people on alot more often but who wants to play half court?