Mike Wang Has Left EA Canada and the NBA Live Development Team

[krazyboy225]

Dont overreact guys..
Yes mike is gone
Yes he is missed.
He is still just one guy... get over it.

[fsufan4423]

Quote: Originally Posted by krazyboy225

Dont overreact guys.. Yes mike is gone Yes he is missed. He is still just one guy... get over it.

Don't overreact guys..= Live will be better next year
Yes mike is gone= He moved on to better things
Yes he is missed.=We have a great team in place
He is still just one guy... get over it.= So is LeBron to this Cavs I guess

[Pared]

krazyboy is actually right. The overreaction is phenomenal.

It takes more than one person/two people to make/break things.

And let's not all pretend the staff in place don't all have a different way of looking at game development after last year. These guys deserve a lot more credit than they're being given.

Go look at the credits for Live '10. Way more than one or two names but if you'd read this forum you'd never know that.

[kcxiv]

Quote: Originally Posted by Court_vision

Honestly man...I hate going hard on this. But the way EA has completely deserted NCAA basketball is a disgrace. I am just the idiot who's bothering to keep posting the "freezing" thread as a reminder. A lot of the other guys have just given up on EA and your basketball games. You've got a game that freezes...and no producer or salesman in sight. Yet, here's a potentially negative thread...and what a surprise, Flash is here and you've even shown up. What does that say? Like I said, I'm just the idiot who's mentioning the freezing. The others are the guys who won't be buying your basketball game in 11.

Hehe, thats how it works. When you cant/wont do something about a situation. you ignore it. When you need to crowd control on a situation you can somewhat control you do it.

EA isnt responding to the freeze because in their minds from a business standpoint, the game is done and dead. They are just going to let it rot. Its how the business world works like it or not.

NBA Live is still going, so they will step in here and try to calm folks down. Remember they said it, bigger and better things.

[Tomba]

No worries if NBA live 11 loses it's editing capabilities tombasports opens up a cheerleader section! so here's to hoping!

[Pared]

Quote: Originally Posted by kcxiv

Hehe, thats how it works. When you cant/wont do something about a situation. you ignore it. When you need to crowd control on a situation you can somewhat control you do it. EA isnt responding to the freeze because in their minds from a business standpoint, the game is done and dead. They are just going to let it rot. Its how the business world works like it or not.

Much like 2k did with their baseball game last year.

This isn't delegated to ONLY EA.

[Kully]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

krazyboy is actually right. The overreaction is phenomenal. It takes more than one person/two people to make/break things. And let's not all pretend the staff in place don't all have a different way of looking at game development after last year. These guys deserve a lot more credit than they're being given. Go look at the credits for Live '10. Way more than one or two names but if you'd read this forum you'd never know that.

Sensible post Pared.

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

Much like 2k did with their baseball game last year. This isn't delegated to ONLY EA.

Edit: and their Hockey game this year. But this isn't (supposed to be) a 2K thread.

Just got to wait and see what Live brings us in October.

[Dantecamp21]

I've read trough the entire thread. Nobody saw that one coming. Sad news for all of us Live (and other basketball games) fans.

I still think this year's Live is a solid game and could have benefited from another development cycle with the same team.

But at the same time, it's obvious now that people will fly away from next year's game (and understandably so).

NBA 2K10 has a ton of freezing issues, poor serves and advertised features that doesn't work at all. But at the other side of the coin, they have solidified the NBA 2K series on the market with some great iterations and even after some off-years, people tend to give them the benefit of the doubt (and rightfully so).

If EA Sports management believes that they have a well-rounded, solid product on their hands once Live 11 is finished, they should label a 29.99 price tag on the game (just as 2K did with its 2K5 line-up, at 19.99 back then).

People would at least give it a shot and if, in fact, the game is good and the post release support is steady, their credibility would be on its way back once again.

They must make an effort to get the game into people's house or else It won't matter if the game receives stellar reviews all around, it will still be labeled as "best game sports nobody played" because people won't buy it out of the blue anymore.