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Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

Here's the thing though, you're questioning their direction based off your personal likes and dislikes. Jay-Z is a huge star, his involvement with the game is a huge deal whether people around here want to admit it or not. That's not some warning sign that 2K is going down the drain because Jay-Z was involved with the project. Especially since majority of people around here don't even give him credit for the one believable thing they credit him with.

Yes, that's exactly right. I'm absolutely questioning their direction based off of my personal likes and dislikes. When I made the transition from NBA Live 2002 to NBA 2K2, it was because 2K's direction seemed plainly clear to be in sync with what I was looking for out of an NBA basketball game. 2K made no qualms about it, they were out to make the most realistic NBA simulation of all-time and because that's exactly what I was looking for, it was a match made in heaven.

In part, what this thread is touching on is the recent lack of clarity from 2K. A lot of us can no longer make sense of their overarching mission statement. Is it to make the most realistic NBA simulation ever, both on and off the court? Is it to give what active social media consumers vote for the most? Is it to sell as much product as possible by any means possible?

I'm curious to know whether this direction change shall continue into the future, building off of NBA 2K13 and NBA 2K14, or if we can ever expect a return to a lot of the more realistic and controllable aspects I most value. I am a consumer who is questioning whether a product I've loyally followed over the past 12 years is slowly moving away from my personal preferences. In lieu of explanations (though I appreciate Leftos saying what he's allowed to say), I have a lot of questions.

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As for VC, I can't stand it either, but at some point people are going to have to stop crying about VC when that kind of thing is in virtually every other video game in some kind of way. Pre-Order bonuses, DLC, microtransactions, it's the norm in video games so trying to hold 2K to some standard of sneaky evil and shunning the sim community because of those inclusions is unwarranted as well. This really seems to boil down to a lot of us in the sim community being selfish about 2K and not wanting casual gamers to have anything to do with the series unless they're doing everything exactly how we want it done.

I believe this may be a little bit aside from the original thread topic, but I do not think all microtransactions were created equal. There's a difference between GTA V offering me a blimp for pre-ordering their game and NBA 2K carpet bombing their entire product with virtual currency.