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NBA 2K15 Video - Welcome To MyPARK, Full Details Included

01:03 PM - October 1, 2014 by Steve_OS

2K Sports has just released a new NBA 2K15 video featuring MyPARK with a quick teaser at the end on The Stage.

A few tweets from @LD2K below.

The streetball style will be differentiated from the Rec center. No streetball moves out there - full sim games.
During sessions, you can "squad up" for that session with friends and travel together. Yes TRAVEL. More on that later.
We'll have a full writeup breakdown on #NBA2K15's #MyPARK coming your way soon.

And here is the full write up.

Today, we announced the return of The Park, now known as MyPARK.

In NBA 2K14, The Park was first unveiled. It was the first iteration of a revolutionary mode unseen in any sports game, bringing MyPLAYERs together to play casual games of street ball. This year, the world is getting bigger and the stakes higher. The Old Town Flyers, Sunset Beach Ballers and Rivet City Rough Riders are recruiting true competitors to represent their community in NBA 2K15�s MyPARK mode. Each affiliation has its own 8-court home park and unique flavor of basketball emphasized by slight boosts to various aspects of your game. Pledge your loyalty to one and start making a name for yourself.

Affiliations: You�ll pledge your loyalty to one of three affiliations: The Old Town Flyers, the Sunset Beach Ballers or the Rivet City Rough Riders. Each has its own eight-court home park and unique flavor of basketball, emphasized by slight boosts to various aspects of your game.
MyPARK Rep: After selecting a park, you�ll begin earning a reputation for yourself with MyPARK rep, an earned-only feature which takes into account not only wins, but your teammate grade and opponents. As your rep increases, you will unlock various MyPARK-specific upgrades.
The MyPARK Championship: Beginning October 11 and lasting through the weekend preceding the NBA All-Star game, the MyPARK Championship will pit all three affiliations against one another in weekly rounds of competition. Earn points that count toward the MyPARK Championship, where the winning affiliation will receive a newly designed home park!
Jordan Rec Center: If street ball isn�t for you, try out the Jordan Rec Center, which features four full-sized courts and five-minute quarters of 5v5, NBA rules basketball. Games played here also count toward your MyPARK Rep and the MyPARK Championship.
Squads: Whether you prefer playing on hardwood or the blacktop, form a Squad with anyone currently in your park by viewing the list of players and sending them an invite. Once you have your team, use any designated Squad area located on each court. When that game is over you will all step onto the court together as a Squad.
Additional Features:
- With the new Attribute Upgrades feature, you will no longer see a park full of 99s that are impossible to guard. You�ll become a specialist depending on how you upgrade your MyPLAYER.
- MyPARK games have been shortened to 15 points, which will shorten Got Next wait times.
- With the new always-on game score overlay, you won�t have to change camera angles to find out the current score.
- The teammate grade meter shows how well you�re playing at a glance without having to bring up the game menu.
- The MyNBA2K15 mobile app makes it easy to send texts to your squad or anyone in your park. Just type in the app and the text pops up on their screen.
- Matchups are now based on height with weighting for position rather than simple join order.

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# 261 JayMar2014 @ 10/03/14 01:28 AM

Our crew is looking for a Center who can dominate both ends of the floor and play team ball , If you don't have a crew your more than welcome to join mines if your a team player that is . xbox one users , and my gamer tag is YungJay313 message me if your interested

# 262 City_foxx @ 10/03/14 01:30 AM

I just dont understand this percieved need for a ' persistent envronment" but i have idea's on how to give both =)

# 263 Boilerbuzz @ 10/03/14 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by City_foxx


	I just dont understand this percieved need for a ' persistent envronment" but i have idea's on how to give both =)

Need? It's ****ing cool! There's a reason MMOs have been HUGE in the industry! Why do you think the mode exists? If you don't want to wait, play a regular online match. Problem solved.

It's one thing to SAY you can get both. But that's just talk.

# 264 City_foxx @ 10/03/14 01:41 AM

Eh 370 days till 2k'16, i got plenty of time to post my idea's in a well thought out and presentable manner. It involves a dynamic lobby system MYcourt.

# 265 Sundown @ 10/03/14 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Boilerbuzz


	I wonder how many of you people that are complaining about waiting to play: 1. Play MMOs like World of Warcraft. 2. Actually, go outside and play for real. Just wondering. And tell me how you would maintain a PERSISTENT environment without waiting. Don't say instancing/phasing because the you break continuity. Wrong answer. I'm sure they would love to hear your ideas.

Persistence shouldn't be the primary design goal in a basketball game. If it exists, it should be for flavor, but definitely should not get in the way of games played.

I think comparing 2K to MMOs or actual pickup misses the point. 2K doesn't gain very much from the persistence given the massive amounts of downtime-- and a video game shouldn't include the least enjoyable parts of an activity. I want an NBA sim but that doesn't mean I want to pay 40 bucks a game or simulate a two hour drive in traffic to Oracle each game either. :P

So yes, instancing. Because persistence at all costs IS the wrong answer.

Ideally parks should be instanced so that wait times are short and the most you'd have to wait is one game. If at all. But really, it seems like this forced waiting is designed by someone who likes the idea of parks for their own sakes over the actual idea of playing lots of games.

# 266 Sundown @ 10/03/14 02:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Boilerbuzz


	Need? It's ****ing cool! There's a reason MMOs have been HUGE in the industry! Why do you think the mode exists? If you don't want to wait, play a regular online match. Problem solved. It's one thing to SAY you can get both. But that's just talk.

There's a big difference between cool in concept and cool in actual execution. There's no REAL persistence in MyPark that's added by the wait time other than seeing other people around. There's no real game mechanic based on that either. They're just individual basketball games whose persistence through the record keeping is accomplished entirely apart from the "persistence" forcing the waits.

MMOs are completely different because you can choose to any number of things-- you're not forced to wait to do the only thing that you can do in the game.

And even MMOs instance. Odd that MMOs are brought up as an example of persistence and then instancing disregarded, when they popularized the mechanic precisely because of the issues with persistence. One is literally the solution to the other. What you're describing is the equivalent of waiting for another group before you to finish a dungeon before you can enter it. That would be a horrible design. I've played MMOs without that sort of instancing, waiting for dungeon respawns and resets. It was a horrible experience.

# 267 KingIcky @ 10/03/14 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Cf3411


	Psn c_fitz34 hmu on there look at mine and city_foxx threads on the online sub forum we putting a squad together.

which positions?

# 268 Boilerbuzz @ 10/03/14 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundown


	Persistence shouldn't be the primary design goal in a basketball game. If it exists, it should be for flavor, but definitely should not get in the way of games played.

Says who? That's your personal opinion that I completely disagree with. Persistent is a pretty Boolean concept man. Either you have it or you don't. If you don't have it in this mode, you may as well not have that mode. And, in my opinion, that's a hell no. It's by far my favorite mode, but I play WoW. I know I have to wait to get in raids and such.

If this isn't for you, that's cool. But don't try to pretend the persistent open world paradigm doesn't belong in basketball. That's completely wrong.

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	I think comparing 2K to MMOs or actual pickup misses the point. 2K doesn't gain very much from the persistence given the massive amounts of downtime-- and a video game shouldn't include the least enjoyable parts of an activity.

That's like saying waiting breaks MMOs and chess. We know it does not. It sucks, but it's there. To go back to my other point - dudes that play for REAL wait in a hot *** sun to play hoops. And no one complains.

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	I want an NBA sim but that doesn't mean I want to pay 40 bucks a game or simulate a two hour drive in traffic to Oracle each game either. :P

Where is the sim lost I the wait?

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	So yes, instancing. Because persistence at all costs IS the wrong answer.

Nope. Wrong answer. The persistence IS the mode. Take it out, you lost the mode. Done. You made a lobby. Oh what fun! Screw that. Not to mention you lost continuous spectating. Yay! Another loss.

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	Ideally parks should be instanced so that wait times are short and the most you'd have to wait is one game. If at all. But really, it seems like this forced waiting is designed by someone who likes the idea of parks for their own sakes over the actual idea of playing lots of games.

Hold on. Forced waiting? That implies that you think this is an intentional facet instead of a natural byproduct. Come on, Sun (no pun intended), you're better than that.

Guys, it just sounds like you don't want to accept this mode for what it is. And that's fine. You want the standard online pickup games with interactive world lobbies. And some spectating.

Meh!

# 269 Boilerbuzz @ 10/03/14 02:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundown


	There's a big difference cool in concept and cool in actual execution. There's no REAL persistence in MyPark that's added by the wait time other than seeing other people around. There's no real game mechanic based on that either. They're just individual basketball games whose persistence through the record keeping is accomplished entirely apart from the "persistence" forcing the waits. MMOs are completely different because you can choose to any number of things-- you're not forced to wait to do the only thing that you can do in the game. And even MMOs instance. Odd that MMOs are brought up and then instancing disregarded, when they popularized the mechanic. What you're describing is the equivalent of waiting for another group before you to finish a dungeon before you can enter it. That would be a horrible design. I've played MMOs without that sort of instancing, waiting for dungeon respawns and resets. It was a horrible experience.

THAT is the problem with the waits. Giving people something to do as they wait!

Now we can get down to business!

What can we do while we wait?

1. I would like an open shoot around area.
2. Make the world more interesting. Interactive. Let me interact with those machines!
3. Can I play some mini-game while I wait?
4. Let me heckle or cheer on the current game. Let me do something that can affect that game in at least some immaterial way.

Just some examples.

# 270 dshields12 @ 10/03/14 03:09 AM

7' 2" Center
PS4
Squad???

# 271 Equinox831 @ 10/03/14 03:10 AM

You seriously think that waiting around for 30 minutes to play adds to the mode and removal of the wait time would ruin it? That literally delivers no benefit to the game.

# 272 abcfinest @ 10/03/14 07:24 AM

Im a big supporter of 2k. But whats wrong is wrong. You guys are tripping if you think it's ok to wait 25 to 35 mins waiting on a got next spot to play 5v5 simulation basketball with refs and rules. Waiting outside in the park is cool but not when you trying squad up with friends and straight hop in to play competitive online. 2k will soon find out this was a mistake. I just want to here the reason why we have to wait to play 5v5 in the rec center. If yall cool on waiting with your friends for long periods of time before you can play then all the power to ya. Im hearing its a alot of stuff we can do while waiting. Hopefully 2k got something up there sleeve. And not just customizing our my player or shooting around for 30 mins while waiting.

# 273 City_foxx @ 09/22/15 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by City_foxx


	Eh 370 days till 2k'16, i got plenty of time to post my idea's in a well thought out and presentable manner. It involves a dynamic lobby system MYcourt.

=) dont think i ever got around to posting what i had in mind but "MYCOURT" turned up anyway and is EXACTLY what i was thinking(i hope). Its funny to read how hyped we were for rec center and how off the op is "no arcade moves in the rec center" somthing to keep in mind and take any info the hype guys give you with a grain of salt.

# 274 nox @ 09/22/15 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by City_foxx


	=) dont think i ever got around to posting what i had in mind but "MYCOURT" turned up anyway and is EXACTLY what i was thinking(i hope). Its funny to read how hyped we were for rec center and how off the op is "no arcade moves in the rec center" somthing to keep in mind and take any info the hype guys give you with a grain of salt.

wow thanks to your bump I was watching this trailer thinking it was 16's was affraid that none of the courts had changed haha

# 275 City_foxx @ 09/22/15 06:34 AM

LoL it says 15 in the title, but MB might not have been the most appropriate thing to do.

# 276 BellSKA @ 09/22/15 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by nox


	wow thanks to your bump I was watching this trailer thinking it was 16's was affraid that none of the courts had changed haha

I thought the exact same thing. Gotta be honest, got really pissed for a few. Then I checked the OP time stamp.

Thanks for the bump, my heart can't take these shinanigans!

# 277 Rain816 @ 09/22/15 06:56 AM

Whoever bumped this.... Thats a cruel trick to play with ppls emotions this early in the morning lol. Swear i thought that said 2k16 at first

# 278 nox @ 09/22/15 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by City_foxx


	LoL it says 15 in the title, but MB might not have been the most appropriate thing to do.

no worries, I just saw a heavy discussed topic with MYPARK in it and thought it'd be 16, after watching half the video I felt really stupid haha

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