NBA Live 13 Gameplay Video - Miami Heat vs. Oklahoma City Thunder

[bigeastbumrush]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheLetterZ

This stunt reeks of an intentional leak on EA's part to judge how people react. If people like the video? Great! If everyone agrees that it sucks? Oh, it was a pre-alpha build! Don't worry! It's a low-risk way of finding out how people feel before they make a big investment with the game.

How soon people forget what happened with Elite 11.

Footage got out and the EA Devs were dumbfounded when people said that the game was crap.

They were literally trying to justify weird stuff that was happening in the game. Saying that oh you gotta give certain moves time and all sorts of nonsense.

Pre-alpha, old build, E3, whatever. The video looked like a tweaked version of Elite. That's cool. But be upfront about it.

They've been Silent since E3. But as soon as the first footage leaks...they want to speak and clear the air.

Slapping everybody in the face. Even the people who are gonna buy Live no matter whatever shape it's in.

[ruggedrum]

Call me crazy, but if this is just an old version of what they are working on then I am even more curious to see how it turns out. Looks better then Elite IMO, at least we got to see something.

[Radja]

Quote: Originally Posted by youALREADYknow

Player models look like NFL 2K models on Dreamcast. I'm utterly stunned by how poor this looks considering the visual quality of other EA titles.

i was thinking dreamcast when i watched it also. anyone expecting live to compete with 2k13 was dreaming hard. at best we could expect them to compete on the level of 2k10, maybe 11. but this looks like it could only compete with last gen. they had to be 2 or 3 years from truly competing. i was hoping they would. but.....

even the menus were eerily last gen. i wasn't expecting much after seeing that, but i was expecting something more.

kotaku posts that EA says it was an early build and does not represent where the game is now. well, unless it is from 2003 that's too bad. even with 6 more months of development, that build cannot provide enough confidence EA can close the huge gap 2k12 has. when 2k13 hits the shelves, it's going to be ugly for EA.

[MostlyChilly]

This would've been a serious Sports Game of the Year contender in 2002, shame.

[TheLetterZ]

Quote: Originally Posted by JasonMartin

Low risk? You have got to be kidding me. No one likes this footage, even if it's from 6 months ago, it's horrible. Why would they want bad publicity, 1 month before the release of the game. NO ONE, really no one wants a bad start. Especially after 2 years of no NBA Live. After 2 years of hard work and a lot of money spent. Do you think the management/CEO's of EA Sports would agree with this kind of strategy? No, of course not. Get off on the right foot, you can't afford any bad publicity. Of course it sounds good, show something bad, then convince the audience with amazing footage but that's not how the market works or thinks. The bad publicity has its effect on a certain type of audience, maybe people who don't visit game/basketball forums at all. They already made up their mind "Nba Live-ea sports" suck, lets get 2K. They don't want this game. If EA is that stupid they could and should have killed the project months ago.

It's low risk if canceling the game is one of the options on the table.

What's a lower risk: leaking a video, or holding an event where they try to show off the game, only for everyone to tell them how terrible it is?

It's much easier for them to leak a video and write it off as a pre-alpha build than it is for them to release "actual" footage and let people play the game.

[BRxSKINSx]

Wow, if that's what EA plans to come with.... I'd be silent too... That's terrible... No way is that worthy of 1200 mp....let alone 60 bucks.... They should make that a download only title, because there's no way a sales person can sell someone that game with a straight face... Come on Oct. 2nd!

[Saturnis]

what is it, do we have a bunch of people here with no ears? the commentary was good? you haven't watched a game with jeff and breen if you can say that with a straight face because it was atrocious. mostly mike spoke and during the damn game all you hear is "puts it in...silence....durant from downtown....silence.....miss fires....... heat on the move....silence..............silence.............. ........................ to james.................."

it was beyond atrocious. I saved my preorder to see both gameplay then decide, but freak that i already reserved 2k without footage cause I WILL NOT play this abomination.

[jreezy18]

Somebody tell EA Sports to stop putting their PS2/Xbox games on current-gen systems.