NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

[k3yD]

Hopefully their license with the NFL will expire soon so 2K can make a proper NFL game!

[Caveman24]

Everyone happy? Why with 1 game on the market 2k can put out trash and almost make sure you guy it oh wait didn't that happen to Madden?We need competition to keep these devs and company in check other than that will get the same watered down game like that's what happen to Madden and to be honest don't think it can't happen to 2k.I want more than 1 game hell let's get NBA Shootout back out there we need this competition we don't want another monopoly.

[KidHypeTellem]

Exactly.
Fanboy stuff aside, one must be able to see what a state we're in when several development teams are struggling to put out decent games in their area.

Quote: Originally Posted by rspencer86

People laughing about this? To me, it is a sad day for sports gamers. We've now been reduced to ONE NBA game and ZERO College Basketball games. Several years ago we had three NBA games and two NCAA games. Add in no competition in football and baseball games (hell, 360 users won't even have a baseball game next year) and we are in trouble as sports gamers.

[jbthegreat]

Quote: Originally Posted by DEFTFUNDAMENTALZ

All the blame falls on Hard8Times fellas. With one upload he demolished EA Basketball.

so sad yet so true lol

[yungflo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Rain816

just give 2k the nba rights...n naybe they will send them free copies or something...

hell no. then they will get lazy. competition is good.

[pslieber]

I'd like to echo the sentiments above: would love to see another college basketball game as some output of all this wasted development time and expense. NCAA 10 was a solid title; a little tweaking and it's fairly ready to go. Heck, make it a download title ($20) to cut on costs, work off whatever they engine in the bag. I doubt the NCAA Basketball license is that costly as there's been no serious bidders in 3+ years.

All mismanagement aside, this is a travesty; NBA Live 10 was so enjoyable. I'm not hating on 2K; I'm excited as hell heck about the physics/defense improvements. But sad, nonetheless.

[piccolomair]

Quote: Originally Posted by infam0us

Different people working on different games.

thats not true....its a different engine all together. Fifa and nhl share similar gameplay attributes, and like 2k was able to do with its basketball game, ea was able to set a very very strong backbone to their games early on when the 'new' generation of consoles came out. They then have just been building upon that system of gameplay, similar to how 2k has done with its basketball game.

This is also why 2k's football games are so missed, because they had a far better gameplay system than madden at the time, and they could have built upon that and surpassed madden, while madden had a very arcadish system (same as live).

In fact werent some of the lead designers for fifa and nhl working on elite? Its just a different sport with different rules in terms of physics and gameplay, and they cant create a unique system to build upon.

I thought they had it this time, which is why i was sort of excited about live and downloading the game when it came out. I knew it wouldnt be as good as 2k, but i felt that if they had a decent game (like live 10) they could easily add things and tweak things to the consumers satisfaction and eventually in a few years compete with 2k....but i guess i was wrong

[RandomPerson]

Quote: Originally Posted by Caveman24

Everyone happy? Why with 1 game on the market 2k can put out trash and almost make sure you guy it oh wait didn't that happen to Madden?We need competition to keep these devs and company in check other than that will get the same watered down game like that's what happen to Madden and to be honest don't think it can't happen to 2k.I want more than 1 game hell let's get NBA Shootout back out there we need this competition we don't want another monopoly.

2K hasn't had any real competition since the 360 came out. Live has been a train wreck for years now. 2010 might have been an exception.

2K isn't EA. They don't need competition in order to put out a good product.