[MrArlingtonBeach]

I am not really all that impressed with the overall changes to career mode, TBH. It does look like more of the same...with some small changes and a few updates.

Swapping courses out in career mode for new ones is huge...but limiting it to "2K Approved" ones, while seemingly OK, means we will now depend on what they put on that list. How often will they update it? They also said it will only be courses by their NextMaker designers...that's fine, but still doesn't allow for as much "real-life" immersion as I'd like.

I am super glad that tiebreak playoffs are in...but that should have been in before.

More sponsors are fine, too. But that system looks unchanged, other than now you can have 3 sponsors. Rivals look basically unchanged, too.

My biggest gripe is going to be having the female players in the PGA Tour. In one of those career mode videos, two of the LPGA pros were in the Top 5 of FedExCup point standings as they started playing the FedEx-St. Jude Championship - a FedExCup Playoff event. That's unrealistic and makes me not really wanna play. Not because they are female or anything like that - but because it's not how reality is. Same goes for having female golfers as your rivals. I really wish they'd have included the LPGA Tour...having Lexi Thompson play week in and week out on the PGA Tour makes zero sense. Immersion was the biggest problem in 2K21's career mode, along with the glitched leaderboards...and it seems that 2K23 might have the same immersion issue for me.

Another thing...and I will be 100% honest here...I really don't understand all this progression/fitting/archetype/golf ball sleeve/etc. stuff. I mean, I get the concept and the selecting an archetype and all that, but there's some randomness to it, I guess, in terms of when you can do a club fitting or when you get certain gear? I'm really not following how all that stuff works.

And then you need VC for things - not just to "buy" consumable balls, but to move skill points around and be fitted or to "deconstruct" your fittings? Maybe I am losing some of my sharpness as I get older, but much of the MyPlayer stuff is flying well over my head, and using VC for this, even if it's small amounts, seems strange.