Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

[Steve_OS]

Back in March of last year, 2K mentioned their 'non-simulation' football game would release in 2021,...

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[SolidSquid]

Re: Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

Brutal but I kinda figured it would be delayed with every thing else getting delays due to COVID.

That being said I hoped off the hype train for this a long time ago. Still interested to see what exactly their multiple games turn out to be

[canes21]

Re: Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

Makes me wonder if it is just a playgrounds game. Cannot imagine that game would be so complicated it would need a delay unless I am missing something.

[illwill10]

Re: Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

Not too surprised despite them saying a few months ago that they still expected to release this year. Hopefully with the outlook of pandemic looking somewhat positive, normal development can start happening for gaming companies.

I didn't have high expectations. Just sucks from the standpoint of was hoping there could be a viable alternative football game.

[malky]

As long as they keep refining it and giving it that 2k touch, I'm ok with it.

[Hooe]

Re: Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

Makes me wonder if it is just a playgrounds game. Cannot imagine that game would be so complicated it would need a delay unless I am missing something.

Eh. Making games is hard.

Ignoring the specifics of the game mechanics entirely, we can reasonably agree that 2K's game is most likely one featuring:

- striking (possibly not photo-realistic) 3D graphics which will impress on PS5 / XBOX Series X
- motion-captured animations
- real-time physics calculations when in-game actors collide
- original foley and licensed library audio for sound effects
- prominent placement of licensed assets (the NFL teams and NFLPA players) which require third-party approvals
- either licensed audio for music (which requires more third-party approvals) or original music composed in-house
- online head-to-head game modes with real-time gameplay (as opposed to turn-based or asynchronous)
- a live service which frequently delivers new content into the game, and
- a microtransaction-based in-game economy

Even with just those things - we haven't even put the specifics of football in that feature set, whatever style you want it to be, much less a season or a franchise mode - you're for sure looking at a two or three year dev cycle and a dev team of at least 100 people, likely more.

Anyway, I anticipated this game would get delayed in the E3 thread, so this announcement doesn't surprise me at all.

[Kanobi]

Re: Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

Interesting news. This leads me to believe, now more than ever before, that Visual Concepts is behind it.

[VCdolphin]

Re: Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

Interesting news. This leads me to believe, now more than ever before, that Visual Concepts is behind it.

That would make the delay worthwhile, IMHO.

From a business standpoint though, does 2K have to pay for the NFL and NFLPA license for 2021 or can they roll it to 2022? It would be a major hit to pay for a license you don't use for a year.

[tsbmolina]

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Talk about deflating after waiting over 16 years for an NFL licensed 2K football game. A straight Adam Vinatieri kick to the balls, no pun intended.

[canes21]

Re: Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

Eh. Making games is hard.

Ignoring the specifics of the game mechanics entirely, we can reasonably agree that 2K's game is most likely one featuring:

- striking (possibly not photo-realistic) 3D graphics which will impress on PS5 / XBOX Series X
- motion-captured animations
- real-time physics calculations when in-game actors collide
- original foley and licensed library audio for sound effects
- prominent placement of licensed assets (the NFL teams and NFLPA players) which require third-party approvals
- either licensed audio for music (which requires more third-party approvals) or original music composed in-house
- online head-to-head game modes with real-time gameplay (as opposed to turn-based or asynchronous)
- a live service which frequently delivers new content into the game, and
- a microtransaction-based in-game economy

Even with just those things - we haven't even put the specifics of football in that feature set, whatever style you want it to be, much less a season or a franchise mode - you're for sure looking at a two or three year dev cycle and a dev team of at least 100 people, likely more.

Anyway, I anticipated this game would get delayed in the E3 thread, so this announcement doesn't surprise me at all.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think if this was an incredibly dumbed down game akin to NFL Playgrounds that a delay may not have happened. It's purely a guess. This makes me personally feel like the game will have a bit more complex gameplay and be something closer to The Yard in Madden or more, than it is some 3v3 NFL Arcade game that's purely animation based.

[Big Bankhead]

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Talk about deflating after waiting over 16 years for an NFL licensed 2K football game. A straight Adam Vinatieri kick to the balls, no pun intended.

If it’s a good game, I’m willing to wait an extra year so they can iron out whatever issues there might be.

[simbayless]

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According to this video 2k got 7 sports Simulation games coming next year.

Very interesting

https://youtu.be/yiLIwnVj1ZU

[Kanobi]

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If it’s a good game, I’m willing to wait an extra year so they can iron out whatever issues there might be.

Exactly! It's been this long since APF 2k8 so what's another year, especially if Visual Concepts is behind the game?

Either way, whatever they are working on, it's being kept insanely close to the vest. That has me thinking that those of us with low to moderate expectations might be in for a bit of a pleasant surprise.

[48hour records]

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My belief is that, 2k has figured out a way to wrestle the arcade specific out of the contRact but it’ll take the following year to be usable.
So they scraped this arcade game and start working on a Simulation successor to nfl2k5.
Instead of wasting resource on an arcade style game.
If this happens remember who said it .!
It’s is way to fishy .!!!

I definitely think the nfl & 2k is behind the scenes going back and fourth.
And they cannot announce the end of the ea exclusive deal until next year .

[simbayless]

Re: Upcoming 2K Football Game Delayed Until at Least 2022

My belief is that, 2k has figured out a way to wrestle the arcade specific out of the contRact but it’ll take the following year to be usable.
So they scraped this arcade game and start working on a Simulation successor to nfl2k5.
Instead of wasting resource on an arcade style game.
If this happens remember who said it .!
It’s is way to fishy .!!!

I definitely think the nfl & 2k is behind the scenes going back and fourth.
And they cannot announce the end of the ea exclusive deal until next year .

Ea already renewed the License for a another 5 years with a 1 Extra year option added

2k knows arcade not gonna sale much so they taking their time