NBA Live 14 Roster Updates Not Living up to Promises

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Submitted on: 01/08/2014 by Jayson Young

The last time NBA Live 14's roster was updated, Stephen Jackson had just signed with the Los Angeles Clippers and Rudy Gay had been dealt to the Sacramento Kings in a massive 7-player trade.

Since December 10, almost a dozen different transactions have occurred in the NBA, including Captain Jack's departure from Lob City. None of those moves, unfortunately, are currently reflected in NBA Live 14.

Significant injuries, such as Kobe Bryant's fractured knee, Brook Lopez' broken right foot and Al Horford's pectoral tear, also are not presently represented in NBA Live 14.

None of this would be an issue if gamers were allowed to edit NBA Live 14's rosters and make the changes themselves, but by design, the game prohibits all 400-plus NBA players from being edited or traded.

The sudden, early-December halt to roster updates contradicts the gameplan NBA Live 14 had laid out at June's Electronic Entertainment Expo and continued selling to consumers, all the way up to the game's November release:

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"I want NBA Live to be relevant to the NBA fan throughout the entire NBA season, providing data and content updates that keep your gaming experience fresh and in lockstep with everything that's going on in the real world NBA...I'm really excited about being able to update our game within an hour of something happening in the NBA. We're going to be making an enormous investment into this connected experience."

Sean O'Brien, Executive Producer NBA Live 14
June 18, 2013

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"If something happens in the real world the night before, you see it in your game the next day -- actually, an hour from when it actually happens."

Sean O'Brien, Executive Producer NBA Live 14
November 6, 2013

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"Our connected experience doesn’t stop at player ratings – data will also affects the way each player looks. If Derrick Rose drops a new colorway for his sneakers during the season, the new kicks will be updated in NBA LIVE 14. No waiting for a roster update, no special patch, just another piece that gets automatically updated each day. Same goes for new accessories or gear, even haircuts. Anytime an NBA player changes up his look NBA LIVE 14 will be there to make him look right in-game."

EA Sports Press Release
November 6, 2003

Over the past two months, being an NBA Live fan has become about as difficult as being a Brooklyn Nets fan. A new coach, rebuilt lineup and state-of-the-art arena all generated preseason optimism. Injuries, poor on-court performance and questionable leadership have since squashed any enthusiasm.

Unfortunately for NBA Live 14, the lineup of launch games it's competing against is significantly stronger than the 2013-2014 Atlantic division.

And unlike the real NBA, there will be no magic lottery balls coming to save this rapidly dwindling franchise, its only hope is in turning its fortunes around with hard work and kept promises.

Does the lack of roster updates in NBA Live 14 bother you?

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# 61 loosey101 @ 02/28/14 09:29 AM

Haha got a chuckle out of me as well. Pretty sad that your statement is more true then the one released by O'brien. This is a joke, a week after the trade deadline and still nothing? I'm so close to shelving this bad boy for the rest of the season.

# 62 The 24th Letter @ 02/28/14 09:44 AM

Walt Frazier stay's going in.....

I'm not even trying to pile on or anything...this is just crazy though!

My thing is, OG was here a couple weeks before the game came out talking big....about how it's "easy to hate on Live"....a lot of "rah rah" and all that, but I haven't seen him since. I'm not calling him out or anything, because I respect the dev's and will always maintain we'll never know the 100% picture...but that's not a good look...we've kind of been left out to dry here.

# 63 loosey101 @ 02/28/14 01:09 PM

Per Ea Nba twitter. "@EASPORTSNBA: @MarcRader68 We really apologize for the delay, big update coming shortly!" By shortly I certainly hope they mean within the next couple days...

# 64 DIRK41NOWITZKI @ 02/28/14 01:25 PM

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	Per Ea Nba twitter. "@EASPORTSNBA: @MarcRader68 We really apologize for the delay, big update coming shortly!" By shortly I certainly hope they mean within the next couple days...

Well I just booted up the game and got game update 1 of 1. All the trades are in from what I can see. I'll play a couple of games and see if there are any gameplay fixes.

EDIT: they also fixed antetokounmpo and wolters. Some ratings have been changed too.

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# 65 WTF @ 02/28/14 02:13 PM

Holy hell that's awesome.

Hopefully they look somewhat accurate.

# 66 loosey101 @ 02/28/14 02:24 PM

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	Holy hell that's awesome. Hopefully they look somewhat accurate.

Haha WTF, you're a one man wrecking machine, look what you can get done haha 😝

# 67 WTF @ 02/28/14 03:28 PM

not exactly what I was hoping for. I could have probably did a better job with a CAP system from 2005. And Giannis with a headband FTW!

# 68 loosey101 @ 02/28/14 03:42 PM

I haven't checked it out, can you provide a picture of Gianni's?

# 69 WTF @ 02/28/14 04:26 PM

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...8&l=daceded55f

# 70 The 24th Letter @ 02/28/14 04:36 PM

Giannis looking like a young Al Harrington

# 71 WTF @ 02/28/14 04:39 PM

And Nate Wolters looks like my dude B-Rabbit.

# 72 Walt Frazier @ 02/28/14 06:33 PM

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	Walt Frazier stay's going in..... .

I am just having a laugh about it. Not angry or anything, just feel like we got served up a lot of hype and very little substance.

I just find it comical that they did so little when 2K really came out of the blocks slowly. I mean, I and a lot of other people were REALLY frustrated with 2K and that whole online mess. That was the absolute perfect time for LIVE to actually have daily updates / smooth online experience / do the things they said like gear changes, hair cuts, ratings as soon as they happened. Even if LIVE is an inferior game, all those things would have been very good and gone a long way to restoring some hope for the series. Common sense = an opportunity presents itself, you take it.

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