CONFIRMED: NBA Elite 11 Delayed until 2011

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by rEAnimator

For the most part in a free market system the two are generally the same thing right?

But thats not a reason to thank your company. No offense but your company took a pretty good game in Live 10, damaged it with a subpar patch and then trashed it with a new direction. The new direction doesn't seem to be popular with most fans.

Your company made a mistake and they are recognizing that by pulling the plug this year. But I'm not about to thank EA for it.

[rEAnimator]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

But thats not a reason to thank your company. No offense but your company took a pretty good game in Live 10, damaged it with a subpar patch and then trashed it with a new direction. The new direction doesn't seem to be popular with most fans. Your company made a mistake and they are recognizing that by pulling the plug this year. But I'm not about to thank EA for it.

I never asked for a thanks, I'm just saying that acting in the consumers best interest and making money should go hand in hand.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by infam0us

But Aholbert32 how often do you see something delayed this late prior to release. Isn't it a huge lost producing all the games and not selling them?

Not compared the loss of millions of games being printed and sitting on store shelves. Or the revenue spent advertising the game. Or the damage Elite 11 would have on future versions of the game.

Also, I'm not completely sure Elite 11 wont ship during this NBA season and I dont know if 2-3 months of development time will get this game even to the level of NBA Live 10.

[swac07]

Quote: Originally Posted by inkcil

Exactly! I'm not giving EA "credit" for not pooping on the consumers by releasing NBA Elite 11 next week. You only get credit for doing something good; you DON'T get credit for "not doing something bad." .

This..........

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by rEAnimator

I never asked for a thanks, I'm just saying that acting in the consumers best interest and making money should go hand in hand.

I never said you asked for one. My original statement was directed at the people thanking EA for "acting in the consumers best interest". Acting in our best interest is creating a game that we want to buy. I bought Live 10 because it was a good game and I thank EA for that,.

[boog32]

I'm a 2k guy but what about the people that actually liked the game for what it was? I liked live 10 and was hoping to get both games this year but I couldn't do with elite this year. This game just has too many problems. But as I was saying some people actually liked the game and was willing to stick through it. Most of them don't like 2k style of play and I completely understand that. Now they have to wait until 2011 to play a basketball game smh. I honestly think something big happened behind the scenes.

[NYY2789]

Is there any way to fix this annoying endline glitch? Any time a defender is guarding me on an endline I automatically go out of bounds and randomly lose control of the ball.

[elprez98]

I just read this and didn't think it was real.

I think its a great decision for EA as there is a good foundation but the game was obviously incomplete. I'm almost sure the NBA also recognized the gulf between the two representations of their product and contributed to this decision. Honestly, if I were the NBA execs, I'd would be livid with one game looking like a great recreation of the product we would want to market and the other not doing even close to a comparable job.