Is 2k getting more bang for their buck?

[Toupal]

How is it that Madden 16, NBA 2k16, and MLB the Show are all the same price when we are getting more from one than the other?

Look at the size difference of these files...

Madden 16- 19.59gb

NBA 2k16- 44.86gb

NBA Live 16- 24.45gb

MLB the Show 15- 36.1gb

and yet in the end, we are paying the same price for these games. When in terms of size, 2k is larger than both of EA games combined.

[bo.jangles344]

Could just be bad coding and compression that mates it be larger. This is a bad way to measure your investment. If anything, 2k should be cheaper with the advent of pay for content since you literally can't enjoy a single mode these days with out paying a little for vc seeing as that the rewards for actually playing the game have decreased every year.

[KingTocco]

Quote: Originally Posted by bo.jangles344

Could just be bad coding and compression that mates it be larger. This is a bad way to measure your investment. If anything, 2k should be cheaper with the advent of pay for content since you literally can't enjoy a single mode these days with out paying a little for vc seeing as that the rewards for actually playing the game have decreased every year.

I'm enjoying every single mode and have spent $0. So please get out of here with that.


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[Comduklakis]

Quote: Originally Posted by bo.jangles344

Could just be bad coding and compression that mates it be larger. This is a bad way to measure your investment. If anything, 2k should be cheaper with the advent of pay for content since you literally can't enjoy a single mode these days with out paying a little for vc seeing as that the rewards for actually playing the game have decreased every year.

Some glitches aside (contracts being the big one) you can still enjoy myleague just fine without paying extra money.

By the way The Show and Madden also have pay to play modes. It's the nature of the beast. I only play offline franchise modes so it doesn't affect me but I will admit that I spoil my daughter rotten and have Disney extremely rich with all the Disney Infinity stuff I've continued to buy.

Honestly all games should be cheaper with them getting all the extra money on the back end, but they never will be until a competitor goes all in like 2k did, with financial backing to withstand the lean years and provides a game that stands up to Madden, The Show, and 2k. 2k earned business by first providing a much cheaper alternative and second making it a decent game that got better and better every year.

[Vni]

Size doesn't matter

[bo.jangles344]

Quote: Originally Posted by StrictlyForBuckets

I'm enjoying every single mode and have spent $0. So please get out of here with that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[kadzier]

raw filesize means next to nothing

I would imagine 2k's is so high mainly because of all the HD assets (mainly every single player's super detailed face, etc).

But who knows? It still means nothing because a game is more than just the amount of data on a disk.

[McG]

Quote: Originally Posted by Toupal

How is it that Madden 16, NBA 2k16, and MLB the Show are all the same price when we are getting more from one than the other? Look at the size difference of these files... Madden 16- 19.59gb NBA 2k16- 44.86gb NBA Live 16- 24.45gb MLB the Show 15- 36.1gb and yet in the end, we are paying the same price for these games. When in terms of size, 2k is larger than both of EA games combined.

I have been saying this for awhile now. It's fairly obvious that 2K and the Show are deeper and overall better games. The lack of content from the EA games is obvious, to me this is a clear indication of a lot less content for your money. I'm not a programmer, but I do have common sense. The more memory used for a game, likely will mean more content. 2K compared to Madden is laughable, even without looking at these numbers. Are games like 2K perfect? No, but when looking at the amount of space aka possible errors, then a game over 2x as big should have some wiggle room. Madden and games of that size should come out of the box almost flawless, although Career Mode would like a word with me on that theory... MAN DOWN!