What's up with Live being off of the EA Earnings Upcoming Releases List?

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Quote: Originally Posted by authentic

I agree. I won't believe anything until I hear it from EA, or a very reliable source. This type of thing is crazy. Fact is, we really have no idea what's going on. We're in the dark on this one. Is it safe to say this game is going to come out? Not entirely, but it may be a bigger stretch to say it's already been cancelled like so many are saying. There's no evidence that is has been cancelled. I just don't really see the point in having everyone arguing about this when there's really no need to. The game hasn't been cancelled, or at least announced that it's been cancelled, by EA. So why say it has been? (not really needed to quote you 23, just the last post is all)

To be honest I stayed out of the arguments to be honest with you, but in this one you're right... What I wont and can't do is lock a thread thats posted to the front page

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Quote: Originally Posted by captaintuna

Do you really blame EA for being super cautious about Live 13....especially with the debacle of Elite 11? There's no doubt that they are going to get hammered either way - and truth be told, Live 13 is not going to get a fair shake whatsoever. It's it's starting already here on OS an a few other "blogger" sites. Am I expecting a completely revamped game from EA and a title that would challenge 2K? Of course not. Nobody in their right mind (including the EA team behind this project) are expecting this. So WHY am I so excited and hyped about Live 13??? Because I (bleeping) hate EVERYTHING about NBA 2K and I could never really get into it and Live 13 offers those like me something DIFFERENT. Regardless if Live 13 is good or bad....at least this year I will have a choice for my NBA game. This is the exact same reason why I want 2K back in the NFL picture. It's not about my "blind love" for EA....it's my desire for good, healthy competition and an ALTERNATIVE for the game consumer.

I blame EA for no competition

I blame EA for making a full generation of crappy games

I blame EA for buying the NFL license.. .thats who didnt want competition, EA!

..and you're being very weird... you hate 2k yet you're over here clamoring for a game that hasnt done doo doo since 2005?

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Quote: Originally Posted by JimLeavy59

At this point why would anyone openly trust and defend EA in terms of basketball?

I want to, sooooo bad.
I want to be able to rejoice and celebrate a great installment for a series that made me a sports gamer, that made a day like Christmas day when I got my first video game ever, NBA Live 2000, when I was 5
I want to be able to look back and say hey this is the series that made me a sports fan, that made me want to pick up a basketball and play for hours
I want to get the latest copy each year and continue the longest tradition in my life, playing franchise mode until I know every corner, every trick to take my hawks to a championship in Atlanta

Sadly for a couple years it's been on 2k, but it hasn't felt right, 2k is just, well not Live, yeah I played 2k11 and 2k12 non stop but it's not the game that actually brought this, at the time, 9 year old to tears when 34 was retired as a Hawk at the end of my created players career on NBA Live 04. Pause to remember the Cubs MLB the Show Commercial.

So as a fan of the game and the video game, I sit and wait optimistically hoping for NBA Live 13 to come along and let me rejoice in some old childhood memories, even if it only gets mediocre reviews, which I expect it will, I hope that studio down in Orlando can keep the series alive and only looking up...

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I am confused by that graphic on the front page. August 2012 is in EA's fiscal year 2013?

[LionsFanNJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shinyhubcaps

I am confused by that graphic on the front page. August 2012 is in EA's fiscal year 2013?

Fiscal years don't go January to January, its more like August to the following August.

[Shinyhubcaps]

Quote: Originally Posted by LionsFanNJ

Fiscal years don't go January to January, its more like August to the following August.

I know some companies do that, but that means their 2013 fiscal year begins in, say, April 2012? I would think that would be their 2012 fiscal year (April 1, 2012 through March 31, 2013). When I saw the graphic, I thought the years on the titles were wrong and should be Madden NFL 14, for instance.

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Quote: Originally Posted by captaintuna

Do you really blame EA for being super cautious about Live 13....especially with the debacle of Elite 11? There's no doubt that they are going to get hammered either way - and truth be told, Live 13 is not going to get a fair shake whatsoever. It's it's starting already here on OS an a few other "blogger" sites. Am I expecting a completely revamped game from EA and a title that would challenge 2K? Of course not. Nobody in their right mind (including the EA team behind this project) are expecting this. So WHY am I so excited and hyped about Live 13??? Because I (bleeping) hate EVERYTHING about NBA 2K and I could never really get into it and Live 13 offers those like me something DIFFERENT. Regardless if Live 13 is good or bad....at least this year I will have a choice for my NBA game. This is the exact same reason why I want 2K back in the NFL picture. It's not about my "blind love" for EA....it's my desire for good, healthy competition and an ALTERNATIVE for the game consumer.

You have got to be the most close minded person I've seen on OS.

1. How can you hate such an insignificant thing such as a game. That's a strong emotion toward something that does very little to you directly. Did the game beat you mom, rob your brother, or assault your girlfriend? No?

2. As 23 said, why hate 2K when EA is the ones that dropped the ball?! That is just a something akin to a child throwing a temper tandrum at their mom because they wet themselves.

3. You hate EVERYTHING about 2K? REALLY? Everything? Are you joking, blind, or ********? No game is perfect. That one is far from perfect. But it sure does some things (a lot of things actually) pretty well. Yet you don't see it because you've just decided that that is how it's going to be.

But forget 2k. This has NOTHING to do with 2k!!! This is about EA and the CLEAR red flags surrounding Live 13! You can sit on the fence and wait for something "official". But, damn, a financial report is MORE serious than a doctored and sugarcoated press release. A press release can lie and nothing happens. A report like this being wrong can sometimes lead to firings up to arrests So you need to get your head out of your rear end and start considering that you may not be getting what you hope to get from EA this year.