Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

[myersia]

Random thought....it's a big what if

What if EA knew that they weren't ready to release back around August. So they came up with a plan...let's release the game as is in November accept the bad ratings and all. But from August on let's work on a patch that will make the game as we planned and release it in December. We will type the letter up and finalize it in October and release it after we see the response to the game. Then bam in December when we deliver this "so called patch we put together in a month" all will be well. All the fans will think that we did this for them in a short period of time and increase our overall trust.

[jwtucker710]

Didn't care for NBA Street, for those who are posting it. That's not the direction they need to take LIVE. EA did NBA JAM remake after the dismissal of ELITE, so players would have some form of basketball game from the EA pipeline. Anyway, too arcady.
So, not sure what happened with the development of LIVE 14. Bounce Tek; new dribbling mechanics … not bad player models (not nearly as good as 2K's but not horrible. WHere is all of that?). So, I'm guessing they just couldn't meet the deadline to get what they wanted done, and they kind of had to put out something when the new consoles released. The game doesn't look as bad as what people are making it. Looks like it plays similar to LIVE 10. But I understand, who wants to fork over $500 for a new console and basketball game and just get a cleaned up version of LIVE 10, with the graphics structure on current gen? LIVE 14 is just a current-gen model but on the new-gen, which is a big rip-off, obviously. I think what pisses people off more is that EA and LIVE'S producers had time to develop a good game.
That said, just throwing it out there, but I think EA SPORTS is finished. 2K can buy that division out at this point. They should at least try.
EA SPORTS, their only top-selling game is Madden and NCAA football. Now with the lawsuit there will be no college football for next-gen. So there goes that game, which NCAA 14 was pretty good this year. I kind of like it better than Madden. I will add in NHL and FIFA, which are good games themselves, and sell OK, but can't imagine them holding the department together. WIth the LIVE 14 debacle, gotta wonder if the EA SPORTS division can hold on. We'll see.

[2kfanatic]

Quote: Originally Posted by Feevision

SHOULDNT BE A NEXT GEN TITTLE FOR 60 BUCKS ... THE GUY FROM EA THAT APOLOGIZE SUCKS..I DONT EXCEPT YOUR APOLOGY HE KNEW IT WAS GARBAGE BEFORE IT WAS RELEASE I DIDNT HEAR HIM SAYING NOTHING THEN ..THEY WAS HYPING IT UP ... THATS LIKE KNOWINGLY SELLING A PERSON A CAR THATS A LEMON THEN APOLIGIZING AFTER THEY BUY IT ,...LOL NO REFUND...U GUYS REALLY ARE GULIBLE IF U THINK HIS APOLOGY IS SINCERE

Did you buy the game? If not then I don't think EA is apologizing to you.

[MannyFresco]

Quote: Originally Posted by J.C

lol this game is dookie on a stick and any future patches for said dookie stick is like sprinkling sugar on said dookie on a stick.

lol...that sums it up I guess but, to be serious about this situation. Its okay for us to dis this game because it deserves it. I only hope as basketball game fans that our anger and concerns is heard by the guys at EA. 2k14 has 4 years on Live in terms of development and experience. If you guys remember, 2k11 was the start of the new engine that they are still using today with many, many tweaks and improvements. That game came out in October 2010. That was the year that live said screw it. So since then EA has been scrambling with that dumb *** Elite 11 engine till they scrapped that too. My point I made in my first post in the topic has to do with honing the skills and talents of the development team with one direction and focus. EA has not been doing that. My point was not really talking about next gen. As you guys can see, Next Gen 2k is a somewhat port of current gen's engine with tweaks and additions. IF EA sports had done that with NBA Live's engine since then. There isn't a doubt in my mind that today we would be having a MUCH different discussion. I think 2k still would be a tad bit better but, It would maybe be a 60/40 split for 2k instead of the about 95/5 split it is right now...and that 5% is being generous.

[YoungBuck3]

Quote: Originally Posted by jwtucker710

Didn't care for NBA Street, for those who are posting it. That's not the direction they need to take LIVE. EA did NBA JAM remake after the dismissal of ELITE, so players would have some form of basketball game from the EA pipeline. Anyway, too arcady. So, not sure what happened with the development of LIVE 14. Bounce Tek; new dribbling mechanics … not bad player models (not nearly as good as 2K's but not horrible. WHere is all of that?). So, I'm guessing they just couldn't meet the deadline to get what they wanted done, and they kind of had to put out something when the new consoles released. The game doesn't look as bad as what people are making it. Looks like it plays similar to LIVE 10. But I understand, who wants to fork over $500 for a new console and basketball game and just get a cleaned up version of LIVE 10, with the graphics structure on current gen? LIVE 14 is just a current-gen model but on the new-gen, which is a big rip-off, obviously. I think what pisses people off more is that EA and LIVE'S producers had time to develop a good game. That said, just throwing it out there, but I think EA SPORTS is finished. 2K can buy that division out at this point. They should at least try. EA SPORTS, their only top-selling game is Madden and NCAA football. Now with the lawsuit there will be no college football for next-gen. So there goes that game, which NCAA 14 was pretty good this year. I kind of like it better than Madden. I will add in NHL and FIFA, which are good games themselves, and sell OK, but can't imagine them holding the department together. WIth the LIVE 14 debacle, gotta wonder if the EA SPORTS division can hold on. We'll see.

Fifa sells "OK" lol?

Quote:

FIFA 13 sold more than one million copies (1.23 million units in 48 hours) in the United Kingdom in its first week of release (the fourth game to do so after Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3),[39] [40] and topped the UKIE charts on all formats week ending September 29, 2012.[41] 4.5 million copies were sold worldwide in five days, with 7.4 millions units sold four weeks after its release, which makes the game the biggest videogame launch of 2012 and biggest sports videogame launch of all-time according to EA.[42][43] As of May 2013 FIFA 13 has sold 14.5 million copies.[44]

[GisherJohn24]

I don't think it was finished. So I do not give them props. I think a lot of you are being too easy on them

[GisherJohn24]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dr. Poe

Whatever. You had three years to come out with a good product. At least score in the7-8 range. All reviews have this in the 4-5 range. They just put something out to get quick money. They didn't even try.

Was only about a year

[GisherJohn24]

I honestly don't think EA has the resources nor the know how to make a good NBA game anymore.