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

[Sublime12089]

Good idea? No. The least bad idea? Probably.

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[authentic]

Doing a digital release is fine. Making people pay for this game is another thing.

EA will ignore this game, not patch it, not update it, which is fine. Their main goal should be trying to go gold next year.

However, if they focus on this years game and shorten next years cycle, we're in for the same thing next year.

The price on this should be 10$ at the most. Release it, give it away for almost free, take feedback, and work from that. They should be trying to get the most feedback possible, and for 20$, the only feedback they'll get is from a very small group.

[jfsolo]

Quote: Originally Posted by 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?

I completely agree with this take. The series is definitely no longer worthy of the amount of coverage allotted to it, but this is how it goes in all avenues of life. If something was formerly the king of the mountain, loses that lofty stature, then tries to make a comeback, people become fascinated with that story. Some want to see a return to former glory, others are hoping for a complete crash and burn, the reasons are legion. Regardless of why, almost everyone is compelled by this particular narrative.

[alexthegreat]

For EA, its probably a better idea than not releasing for a 3rd straight year. They're already close enough to having the coffin shut on LIVE. One more cancellation and that will be it. Im guessing right now, they rather put out a very mediocre game and make a little profit. And I guess its a good idea to the hardcore LIVE fans. They'll be happy to get anything from EA at this point, especially at $20. I wonder how long that will last though if EA stops supporting the game and adds a ton of DLC at ridiculous prices.

[Neoda2khead]

Quote: Originally Posted by cmehustle

Give it up, Live is a wrap....

Agreed !!!

[Boilerbuzz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Caveman24

I feel like now everyone is just accepting it like no that's EA problem they get very cocky like Madden they got the NFL license and till this day people are saying they will rather play 2k5 it took Madden how long to get simple stuff in the game they doing the same thing with Live now everyone all like OMG great its cheap like Really*Miz voice* we should be expecting excellence from EA but we always let them off the hook we dealt with Madden crap we had no other alternative then I had to deal with 2k horrible servers guys spin dunking and I can't get a good ranked match without going up against the Heat or Thunder why are we just accepting this we should want more from EA

Boy that was hard to read, but I agree. It's that double standard.

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Quote: Originally Posted by ccoaxum

i didn't really pay any attention to the fact that person was at the gamestop expo because it really say that in the quote and to answer your question no not really because he is just one person and everybody has their own opinion about things. So in other words i rather see screenshots or videos myself, so i can be my own judge..not a huge fan trying to go off of other ppl opinion about things.

So you won't use testimonials. You won't even use your own opinion based on the "early" build you've seen. So what WOULD you use? Ricky Rubio's endorsement and hype from EA marketing? It seems some folks, not saying you, only want to ignore the bad and take the good as gospel. And for the record, my post wasn't aimed directly at you.

[Boilerbuzz]

Quote: Originally Posted by 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.

I'm sure some people here will be able to disagree with you.