NBA Live 13 a $20 Digital Release This October?

[bigsmallwood]

As I stated months ago....NBA Live is finished. At least for this gen. And it it is sad because with 2years off, they should have delivered a great NBA game, instead we may be getting a DLC game....tells you a lot about the efforts of the team overr at EA Spoerts. Wow.

[Slimshady718]

Wow pll are thrilled really? Even for 20 bucks its a rip off. ****in arcade gameplay this game is for 5 year old kids. EA just kill the game already.

[nova91]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

Seriously though, why do they NOW care about feedback? They've been silent literally the entire summer. They made a gimmick of an ad council where they supposedly took the brightest minds out there to give them feedback and nobody from EA Sports has set foot here or in they're own forums or any other forum to pick guys' minds on what they want to see, but for a mere 20 dollars your feedback will be used and appreciated. It's not a good look man. I may have asked this before, but I'll ask again. Has there ever been a time where #shotsfired have been declared only for the declaring parties to immediately be gunned down by a semi-automatic after missing with every bullet?

Lol at #shotsfired. Hiphopgamer reminds me of Brian Pumper.

[chandlerbang]

20 dollars and still will be outsold by the competition

[jreezy18]

Quote: Originally Posted by Slimshady718

Wow pll are thrilled really? Even for 20 bucks its a rip off. ****in arcade gameplay this game is for 5 year old kids. EA just kill the game already.

I'm having a hard time figuring out what you just said or what you have a problem with.

[2kfanatic]

So let me get this straight, they want us to pay $20 and tell them what we have been telling them a million times before? Good job EA.



3 years and they came up with a barely DLC like game?

[JBCAROLINAKID]

Quote: Originally Posted by yaboythecib

cuz u ain't got nutin to explain that why...your .just talking

Hmm... isn't that what your doing yourself "yaboy"? Think about it.

[actuallybrown]

Everybody saying "sure, I'll plop down $20 or X000 MS Points to help make sure next year's game will be much better" is missing the big picture.

While EA spends the next year (that is, if they don't shelf the franchise indefinitely) using the foundation of Live 13 to build Live 14, 2K will be listening to the fans (as they always have), adding features (as they always have), figuring out ways to expand the basketball world inside of a Sim basketball game (as they always have), tightening the controls and animations (as they always have), and marketing the spit out of their brand (as they have since about 2K9). Next year's 2K14 will be so far out of reach of EA's paltry efforts...if I was a C-level executive at EA Sports, I would only see two options available to me that would help us patch this up:

1. Go back to NBA Street as our flagship basketball franchise, and give up Sim basketball, or
2. Do a MASSIVE layoff and recruit better talent to make a better game, presumably luring some of the Visual Concepts guys over with hefty contracts and benefits packages.

Both are drastic changes, but with an outing like anything close to what we've seen with Live 13--even if just the complete and utter mishandling of this franchise for the last 2 years--there's not a lot they could do to dust themselves off with this series, let alone lure 2K ballers over.

This would be a perfect scouting opportunity, though, because some of the guys on the boards (be it OS, EA's boards, or 2K's boards) have some friggin GREAT ideas on how to make a great basketball game. Give these guys the jobs; they have the passion and knowledge of the game that you need, EA.