NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

[NikeBlitz]

Sad but expected. See you on next gen NBA Live (hopefully).

[Kurupt_XxX]

2k needs to get on that football license and start making nfl games.

[Gramps91]

Why didn't they just freakin build off Live 10? I'll never understand it. Oh well, still looking extremely forward to Tuesday.

Still don't understand what they were thinking.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Not surprised......

At this rate there might not be another Live game until the launch of the PS4 and and new Xbox.

[GruffyMcGuiness]

Hmm. I was going to get it because it was going to be $20. Not gonna get 2k or Live next year for $60.

[LingeringRegime]

All the blame falls on Hard8Times fellas.

With one upload he demolished EA Basketball.

[piccolomair]

Quote: Originally Posted by LionsFanNJ

The sad thing is its taken 3 years just for them to cancel the title AGAIN. Where is the time management and direction? I put this one solely on the management team and their decision making. Not on the devs. There's no reason a quality title should have to take four years to develop after having a strong starting base, NBA live 10, which they for some reason decided wasn't good. A major screw up all around from the decision making process.

exactly, i agree. I remember after E3 ea was like "well we didnt actually have 2 years of development, it was more like half a year" and in my head im thinking....why? You had all this time, and instead of using it to get a game ready, you decided you could just fire your entire dev. team, move into a new location, get new tech, and churn out a brand new game based on a brand new system and have it up and running (much less competing) with a constant sports game of the year contender? That is terrible management.

I know you dont want to pay tons of money for a product you wont be releasing for a few years, but the very least you could have picked out a head designer two years ago, and had him play around with the concept and past work and get a blueprint set up for the development cycle. Way to suck...

[greenegt]

Quote: Originally Posted by LionsFanNJ

The sad thing is its taken 3 years just for them to cancel the title AGAIN. Where is the time management and direction? I put this one solely on the management team and their decision making. Not on the devs. There's no reason a quality title should have to take four years to develop after having a strong starting base, NBA live 10, which they for some reason decided wasn't good. A major screw up all around from the decision making process.

I was thinking about that, too. My guess is that EA wants to leverage the tech that is shared between their sports franchises (i.e. physics) and they probably can't do that with Live 10's code base. That would partially explain why Elite turned out so bad. They had to rebuild the core of the game and they couldn't get it to look right. It gets scrapped and a whole new dev team has to pick up that flawed base, figure out what they have, and fix it. It still is not up to snuff and now we have another cancellation.