Scott O'Gallagher Leaving NBA 2K Series For Creative Director Role at EA Sports, Joining Ex-NBA 2K Senior Producer Rob Jones

[Steve_OS]

Scott O'Gallagher announced on Twitter earlier this morning that he is leaving the NBA 2K series...

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[illwill10]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

Just posted that in another thread a few minutes ago. A big loss for 2k, but a big gain for EA Sports. It can be assumed that it will be for NBA Live. I really like the move. I would love for Live to get back to a competitve state. Competition would help 2k and a good Live game brings another option for us consumers. It starts with having the right people, and he is one of them

[Steve_OS]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

Rob Jones looks to be headed to EA as well, just basing it off of his Twitter handle name change.

@therEAlRobJ

[illwill10]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

Rob Jones hasn't been in the spotlight like how he use to be for 2k.
Hope this does mean a new Live game and we hear what direction they are heading in the next couple months

[J_Posse]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

Just posted that in another thread a few minutes ago. A big loss for 2k, but a big gain for EA Sports. It can be assumed that it will be for NBA Live. I really like the move. I would love for Live to get back to a competitve state. Competition would help 2k and a good Live game brings another option for us consumers. It starts with having the right people, and he is one of them

It sucks to lose Scott on NBA 2K especially from an AI perspective, but hopefully he can make some positive stuff happen at EA.

Damn, EA poaching from the NBA 2K team hard. Sucks losing Rob Jones too.

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[Mintsa]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

Wow.......A sign of life for the Live series.....

[illwill10]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

I like the moves. Can't beat 'em, take some of their best assets. I just hope they have a plan and vision that they stick too. I hope they aren't focused on "beating 2k". Mike Wang said in an interview couple years ago that when he was there, they were focus on how to beat 2k instead of building best game possible

[noshun]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

Round 2 of EA needing 2k devs to fix NBA Live.. how sad is that?

[loso_34]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

Just posted that in another thread a few minutes ago. A big loss for 2k, but a big gain for EA Sports. It can be assumed that it will be for NBA Live. I really like the move. I would love for Live to get back to a competitve state. Competition would help 2k and a good Live game brings another option for us consumers. It starts with having the right people, and he is one of them

the ai been a mess defensively for a while. czar is just better at his job(smarter too) and you could see it in the product

[cthurt]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

It really won't matter who Live gets if the higher ups in EA don't allow full creative freedom and full investment in the product that they put out.

Hopefully with the Live series being on its last breath and the recent public outrage behind maddens poor product the guys in charge have learned that cutting corners won't work.

[J_Posse]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

the ai been a mess defensively for a while. czar is just better at his job(smarter too) and you could see it in the product

Well, neither OG or Czar are engineers & are limited by the technology in front of them.

I agree that the defensive A.I. has been weak over this entire console generation, but I wouldn't put it all at the feet of one person.

Getting a little more off-topic, but hopefully the staff changes lead to improvements for both titles.

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[Hustle Westbrook]

Re: Scott OG headed back to EA Sports

Wasn’t a big fan of the direction he took the AI defense in the 2K tbh.

[Steve_OS]

Re: Scott O'Gallagher Leaving NBA 2K Series For Creative Director Role at EA Sports,

Updated OP link with more details. Hopefully something more official comes out soon.

[HoustonHarden]

I hope he and Rob can help NBA live finally be a contender. Its sad how a once great franschise can struggling for the last 10 years.

[Goffs]

Re: Scott O'Gallagher Leaving NBA 2K Series For Creative Director Role at EA Sports,

Whoa Rob leaving? BRING LIVE TO PC!


So how long will they stay with EA? The higher ups seems to LOVE getting they're greedy little fingers in the game. Mike was with EA then something happened which made him come back to 2k.