OS Roundtable: NBA Live's Digital Release a Good Idea?

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Quote: Originally Posted by bigdoc22

It's a great idea for EA. They will make a decent amount on this. A lot of people will shell out $20 just out of curiosity.

Ill watch youtube and the forums and IF there is a demo(which im hearing is basically the same as the full game with some stuff just locked) and general impressions...im not shelling out money just to see.

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As for gamers -- well, we'll see. I'd rather put $60 towards NBA2k13 and really enjoy the game for a long time. But I bet a lot of people will buy both.

That's cool too.., but its sad you'd be getting a better deal with Live 10 and updated rosters.

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I don't know why people keep expecting EA to act in the best interests of gamers. THEY ACT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THEIR SHAREHOLDERS! Why is that so hard to comprehend? A lot of gamers act like they are "owed" by EA -- don't get me started on the entitlement mentality -- that's what's wrong with America. If you don't like the game, don't buy it. No where in the Constitution will you find a right to quality games.

I have yet to find one post that says THEY OWE ME, and thats whats wrong with posts like these.

We as consumers already showed we wouldnt buy crap on a stick. If im paying my hard earned money, I expect quality... there is no entitlement in that, thats expecting good service, thats what people want. Its too simple yet so not easily understood.

I think you're going way overboard with this as well with the whole rights and consitution stuff, which you're treading close to the political line of the TOS so you need to let that go

[qbdaprizzle]

Quote: Originally Posted by huntt26

EA should just take this game, put the players in college uniforms and call it March Madness. I'd buy it

yep same here

[Blak_Baki_Hanma]

Maybe it's just me but EA has yet to acknowledge this game. As far as official news goes, there's an old pic of Kyrie and Rubio, and in late June there was the release of rookie OVR ratings...

That's it.

Then, by way of inadvertent leakage, we happened to see an uninspiring, unverified build of a poorly produced pre-alpha/mid-beta/post-omega/techni-bond/sterling-under-gold/give-it-a-name... and EA basically brushed it off.

So why is the community offering so much webspace to a game publisher that could apparently care less about its latest hoops title (due to release within a month without ANY news of its own existence)?

IS IT THAT BIG A DEAL?

Wow, another scrapped game is hitting the marketplace with absolutely no support from a questionable publisher... and?...
Doesn't this happen alllllllllll the time?

Don't we have real, tangible, genre-advancing games to discuss here?

Live is dead. EA is over it already. Why aren't we?

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Quote: Originally Posted by qbdaprizzle

yep same here

Problem with that is, the last one they made they abandoned it after they sold it in stores with game killing bugs and a freezing glitch with no support and no answers

Why would you just buy it again on the drop of a dime?

[Dazraz]

Not so much a good idea as it is a necessity. If NBA 2K didn't exist I have no doubt that NBA Live 13 would have been released full price at retail. But up against a far superior game the only way EA could release their basketball game was at a lower price. The decision to make it download only is obviously to reduce the cost of packaging & distribution.

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigdoc22

A good idea for EA? A good idea for gamers? It's a great idea for EA. They will make a decent amount on this. A lot of people will shell out $20 just out of curiosity. As for gamers -- well, we'll see. I'd rather put $60 towards NBA2k13 and really enjoy the game for a long time. But I bet a lot of people will buy both. I don't know why people keep expecting EA to act in the best interests of gamers. THEY ACT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THEIR SHAREHOLDERS! Why is that so hard to comprehend? A lot of gamers act like they are "owed" by EA -- don't get me started on the entitlement mentality -- that's what's wrong with America. If you don't like the game, don't buy it. No where in the Constitution will you find a right to quality games.

This post is so full of wrong I don't even have an appropriate gif for it. You know what's in the best interest of EA's shareholders? Selling video games. You know what's in the best interest of selling video games? Not making games so bad they have to be cancelled or put up for digital download cause nobody will pay a full 60 bucks for it. It's not a sense of entitlement that we as consumers expect people that want/need us to give them our money to actually be exchanging with us a quality product. If some of you guys' real, personal lives are run the way your internet personas are in terms of philosophies and the like, I shudder to think of what that life actually looks like now and moving forward.

[Sirlonius]

I don't recall one mention from the people that saw the game said that the game is trash and shouldn't be released and we are all fools....They just said it needs work and that in the end their preference was 2k anyways. So I'm going to wait for the final product to make my decison.

[chandlerbang]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sirlonius

I don't recall one mention from the people that saw the game said that the game is trash and shouldn't be released and we are all fools....They just said it needs work and that in the end their preference was 2k anyways. So I'm going to wait for the final product to make my decison.

Smallz99 say it first hand at e3 and said it was trash ea won't even promote their own product yet you guys keep defending them