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If I Were In Charge...2K Sports Edition Stuck

Posted on December 22, 2008 at 05:09 PM.

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A lot of you commented on my previous posts talking about how 2K has had a rough year and also which sports I'd like to see them tackle.

With it being the Christmas season, I'm going to go back to my childhood roots and play make-believe for a little while. If I were the CEO in charge of the 2K Ship...here are a few things I would do different:

Boost my QA department. Right now, I'm not so sure there is one at 2K with all of the bugs getting shipped with games. My first move would be to make sure my games played great out of the box to get a leg-up on the competition.
Take advantage of my exclusive MLB license and produce great games across the board. MLB 2K9 has to be in the same class as The Show, Front Office Manager has to be a more accessible (but yet better) version of OOTP and I need to create an MLB Legends game like All Pro Football. And ALL of them have to be excellent games to take advantage of the money we spent on the MLB license.
All Pro Football 2K10....nuff said. I hope 2K has been secretly working on this for a year already to blow our socks off. If not...I would spend 2 years to make the absolute best football game ever made.
NBA 2K is our cash cow. Make sure the game continues to get better and better.
What happened to my NHL series? Seriously, we were better than EA's game and then it all changed overnight. That has to change.
Expand our lineup into a sport that could be profitable...that sport is Soccer. We need a second cash cow and soccer is the best selling sports-gaming platform out there. We are going to spend some big bucks and try to make a game that'll compete with FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer. Realistically, this will take at least two editions...so we have to offer up a solid playing game at first before moving onto polishing the whole product out.

So what do you think about my plan? The big drawback is that I do not have any cost-cutting measures for a division of a company that isn't very profitable. In my opnion, increasing quality is the only way to possibly start turning a larger profit at 2K.

So what would you do? Let me know and let's get some spirited discussion going!