[reese45mc]

I don't mean to go off on a rant here.... a.l.a. Dennis Miller

Since continuing playing Park since the first week of the games release I have noticed over and over the number of Legend 1 players are in abundance. Thinking they would be more seasoned than the rookies and pros i chose to play a few games with some random legends being a All-Star 3 at the time. Well this soon proved to be futile as well over 80% of the Legends I played with were in the mindset of chucking up shots and playing no D. This could be a result of boredom with the mode, which is quite possible, or a internal flaw to the game which rewards this style of play over that which may lead to a teammate grade of A+ which 2k has been pushing for a few years now. I tend to lean towards the latter.

For the first half of the 2k season I played all Pro Am walk-on and Arena. There I found exactly the same style of players when i reached the Park after not playing for 4 months. All pass first, bad passing, no defense oriented players. Rarely you would come across of player or two that could be added to your friends list to be reliable in a pinch when nobody from your main squad was on. Well after a good month of playing at the Park I have found that no matter the level of experience shown, the attitude of 90% of these high ranked players is exactly the same. The inclusion of Park cards lends the game towards an arcade NBA JAM feel which is useless, and the attribute upgrade of each Park adds benefits that make some player types impossible to guard, such as a 6 foot PG who can run by everyone, step back cheese, Dunk like Aaron Gordon, and shoot like Steph from downtown. There is only one Stephen Curry but 2k has made it quite easy to create his likeness in the game which overruns the system with the game play I believe 2k is looking for. I could be wrong.

So now you are probably asking for solutions to the problem. Well i am not a game creator, nor have I been asked to help design a very flawed system. At the end of the day 2kSports wants to make money and that will always out weigh the desire to make a game which only one type of gamer is going to enjoy, because you know they have to get that VC Money rollin in. If you just look at the record that the top Legends in the Park have accumulated you can see how bad the system works. There are glitches, there is plenty of cheese to be had, and there is no community voice inside the 2K office that is actually addressing the core issues. Running a live stream every Tuesday and not discussing what gamers are actually dealing, but meanwhile promoting money making ventures such as VC and MyTeam cards which eventually make profits for the company, leave a huge void for the hope that money one day will become less important than experience.

I welcome anyone from 2K to invite me to a chat or visit so I can easily explain where and what is keeping them from becoming a Michael Jordan of the video game basketball world. Let's not forget that EA Sports has been #1 and they are actually releasing games again.

Thanks for reading
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