I know Madden is not the best analogy to use because sheer numbers suggest Madden should have more content. The number of players per year, the NFL has existed way longer, they just have more to work with.
However. MyTeam has felt dead for so long and it's not just the poor spacing and treatment of players, though I will address that first. We need more players. I think there was a step in the right direction this year, but I still see so many players missing. Obviously this is a licensing issue, so I figured I'd address it first and keep it brief.
This mode has felt dead since May, to me. Yes there were a couple cards that piqued my interest but overall I haven't cared about this mode in some time and it's the repetition. This is the exact same game it has been severely lacking.
Blacktop has been the same even though most of the rewards had become stale and outdated throughout the game's life cycle. Isiah is still somewhat, but that's it. The mode died. No rewards were updated and I've already made a thread on how terrible the reward system was executed. I think Blacktop needs monthly updates. Maybe a different Pink Diamond every month. That could actually quell the locker code debate. You have to earn these players. Or one pink diamond token for completing the mode in which you select a PD player. Who knows, but I do know that the mode is severely repetitive.
MTO, needs upgraded. The seed restrictions need to come back. It puts the brakes on content demand because nobody is itching for a new Diamond if they can't use diamonds yet. I think you should be maxed out by which seed you're in. You shouldn't be able to use diamonds until you get to the Diamond seed. It also eliminates any equalizer debates. All the teams are somewhat equal in each seed. I like the current reward system here. The shoes are a nice touch.
The Black Market. This idea is garbage. There needs to be some sort of goal to be met that requires you to be somewhat good at the game. I think it needs to only be accessible through certain challenges. Maybe a list of Black Market players that you get an Onyx (Not Free Agent) token to pick from like Domination rewards or the diamond contract or shoe. Making it so you literally do nothing to access it, then not giving anything really other than the Diamond Contract is pretty dumb to me. Nothing in this mode is really based on ability in game and this is the low point.
Challenges, this took the biggest hit. Firstly those weekly challenges were garbage and the rewards were even worse. Literally every player was undersized for their position. The challenges were also largely garbage. You're up 10, keep this lead for 3 minutes. The game took longer to load that some of these challenges, and then of course so, like the Joe Johnson GW didn't even work. 2K16 challenges were amazing. Of course they screwed us when they dropped a better Kareem at the end but the model was a lot better.
This mode is probably the biggest money maker for 2K so I don't understand why it seems so bare-bones when compared to other games' Ultimate Team modes. I downloaded 2K16 as a part of Xbox Game Pass and it still had challenges I hadn't completed yet because there were so many, and I had way more free time last year than I do now. This mode just feels lesser than and I don't appreciate it, because it's always my main mode after MyCareer gets inevitably stale.
However. MyTeam has felt dead for so long and it's not just the poor spacing and treatment of players, though I will address that first. We need more players. I think there was a step in the right direction this year, but I still see so many players missing. Obviously this is a licensing issue, so I figured I'd address it first and keep it brief.
This mode has felt dead since May, to me. Yes there were a couple cards that piqued my interest but overall I haven't cared about this mode in some time and it's the repetition. This is the exact same game it has been severely lacking.
Blacktop has been the same even though most of the rewards had become stale and outdated throughout the game's life cycle. Isiah is still somewhat, but that's it. The mode died. No rewards were updated and I've already made a thread on how terrible the reward system was executed. I think Blacktop needs monthly updates. Maybe a different Pink Diamond every month. That could actually quell the locker code debate. You have to earn these players. Or one pink diamond token for completing the mode in which you select a PD player. Who knows, but I do know that the mode is severely repetitive.
MTO, needs upgraded. The seed restrictions need to come back. It puts the brakes on content demand because nobody is itching for a new Diamond if they can't use diamonds yet. I think you should be maxed out by which seed you're in. You shouldn't be able to use diamonds until you get to the Diamond seed. It also eliminates any equalizer debates. All the teams are somewhat equal in each seed. I like the current reward system here. The shoes are a nice touch.
The Black Market. This idea is garbage. There needs to be some sort of goal to be met that requires you to be somewhat good at the game. I think it needs to only be accessible through certain challenges. Maybe a list of Black Market players that you get an Onyx (Not Free Agent) token to pick from like Domination rewards or the diamond contract or shoe. Making it so you literally do nothing to access it, then not giving anything really other than the Diamond Contract is pretty dumb to me. Nothing in this mode is really based on ability in game and this is the low point.
Challenges, this took the biggest hit. Firstly those weekly challenges were garbage and the rewards were even worse. Literally every player was undersized for their position. The challenges were also largely garbage. You're up 10, keep this lead for 3 minutes. The game took longer to load that some of these challenges, and then of course so, like the Joe Johnson GW didn't even work. 2K16 challenges were amazing. Of course they screwed us when they dropped a better Kareem at the end but the model was a lot better.
This mode is probably the biggest money maker for 2K so I don't understand why it seems so bare-bones when compared to other games' Ultimate Team modes. I downloaded 2K16 as a part of Xbox Game Pass and it still had challenges I hadn't completed yet because there were so many, and I had way more free time last year than I do now. This mode just feels lesser than and I don't appreciate it, because it's always my main mode after MyCareer gets inevitably stale.
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