NBA Live 09 Producer Blog

[infamousD]

Honestly The only people that should be offended is the guys at 2k, some off you act like he was talking bout your mother or something lol.

[Dynamite]

I don't know, some folks are just hilarious, considering that their product has been sub par, and being destroyed by 2k.

The whole thing is just not a good look for them.

[J_Posse]

The Live DNA feature and deal with Synergy Sports are huge moves in the direction of creating authentic playing NBA games, no one can deny that fact, but EA's only scratching the surfaces of it since it only effects offense at this point, IMO.

Also, who is to say that both their competitors (Sony & VC) can't partner up with other NBA scouting services? I mean, last I checked there are 30 teams in the NBA, yet only 23 use Synergy services? So, there are likely other companies providing this same services and the competitor could (possibly) work out contracts with them.

[SageInfinite]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bornindamecca

Sean O'Brien needs to show some class and keep the other games out of his mouth. Live hasn't given basketball fans a good game in a long time, meanwhile the devs of the hockey teams at EA are knocking it out of the park, and even Madden is seeing early patches and some real care. I hear that Fifa is excellent, and with Skate being awesome, Live is pretty much the worst thing EA Sports is putting out if you don't count their awful, awful, awful college game. They took a few steps towards a playable game this year and now they're talking **** about one of the best sports games out, regarding a feature that doesn't even affect franchise play. If Rob Jones put out a blog talking smack about all of the things 2k does better than Live, we'd all be playing 2k11 by the time he finished typing. "If it's in the game..." you should compete in the game, and not on blogs. How about fixing that rebounding, passing, defense, shooting and loose balls. It's pitiful watching this guy talk about 2k when his franchise just got pulled off of the "too broken to play" list. Live has taken some nice steps, but they take steps backward when people like this take EA back to their reputation of hype over quality gaming.

Nice post once again.

[Pared]

I think he's defending his game... albeit in not the best fashion.

His focus on automation over subjectivity takes the human element out of these games. If someone feels that Kobe drives too much in the video game but mathematically he drives 51% compared to 49%... technically, he's driving the appropriate amount of times. But the human element is still key in perception.

It's nice to have the system automated but I do like the fact fans can interact with someone "in the know." I think he would have done a better job focusing on how EA will listen to the fans "if the automation needs tuning" or something to that extent.

[Glenn33]

I don't know fellas - this seems like a producer hyping a new feature that they believe will be a big selling point with the game. What's he supposed to say? When you are in competition you down the other guy while you build yourself up. LOL. As a 2K guy - I didn't take offense at all. As a matter of fact - he's right. DNA>Living Roster.

[jmood88]

You can hype up your game without talking **** about another game.

[23]

Im going to ask you guys to stop injecting political talk into the conversation