NBA All-Star Weekend: MIA in Sports Gaming

[Jadakiss88]

Quote: Originally Posted by VDusen04

I just saw an old thread on this topic get bumped back up around here a few days ago. I stated there what I've said for a long time: It seems somewhere along the lines an assumption was made by someone that EA bought the rights to All-Star Weekend. Then, once it was assumed enough, everyone began stating it as fact. However, I've never found such an assumption to make sense. If EA did own the All-Star Weekend rights, I would never understand how 2K could have provided an official All-Star Game with All-Star ballots, Jerseys, Official Logos, and Courts. Further, I couldn't see how 2K would have had the right to re-create the T-Mobile Rookie/Sophomore game. Moreover, I also could never see how EA could own All-Star Saturday even (assuming those right were somehow separate) yet still allow 2K to run an officially named "Sprite Slam Dunk Contest" where the only thing missing, really, was the correct arena setting. Also, I never truly believed the NBA would go exclusive on a set of days. I feel it'd be like 2K buying up the exclusive right to the NBA Draft, forcing EA to call there version "The 2012 Player Selection Dispersal, hosted by Daniel Stern". I mean, I could be wrong. It's just, through the years, with no source on this topic from anywhere, the EA All-Star exclusivity rumor seems to make zero sense.

It's a possibility, during all star weekend they have fan events and during fan events the only game that has ever been showcased is NBA Live (At least the few I have been too). Besides, it's very possible for this to happen. They might have exclusive rights through their contract with the NBA saying they are the only company that can have a representation of the All-Star Weekend Events (i.e. 3 point Shootout & Dunk Contest) in their game. It might have been something they agreed on in negotiating the rights to use the NBA and the players in the game.

Even though it's part of the NBA it doesn't mean that one company can't have exclusivity over the Weekend's Events not to mention EA always did a better job than ANY NBA game on the market in both events.

[1D4ever]

I think EA does own the title sprite slam dunk contest, but I doubt that prevents 2k from calling it something else. Granted their first game Jordan vs Bird had a pretty good(albeit very difficult) Slam Dunk contest.

[BezO]

As someone that has fallen out of love with All Star Weekend, maybe except for the All Star game & 3 Point Contest, I can do without it.

I used to want it bad, but watching NBA players take 5 tries to complete a dunk is not fun. I can't imagine watching my friends replicate this being fun either.

I barely want to see All Stars playing And 1 style ball. I definitely don't want to see rookies/sophomores playing this style.

Celebrity game? Nah, I'm good.

Skills Challenge might be fun.

Basically, I don't like enough of the weekend to care if it's replicated in the game, especially considering the time it would take away from the core game & features.

[tabulaRasa]

This story was written maybe because This is what ea has worked. Os is doing it to inflate the need for this thru their liasons on os. Ea Should work on building à decent game instead.

[tabulaRasa]

Nba live Will feature This , thats why os wrote This. Inflate the need.Thunderpuck 2.

[1D4ever]

2K copyed and improved on about everything else (controls, Legends, signature moves, etc) why can't they do a decent 3pt and dunk contest. If they spent half as much time on this as they did trying to make the Legend and classic teams difficult to put together and obtain they way they were right out of the box on 2k11 there will be more than enough time to improve on the gameplay.