NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

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Live 10 is dated at this point

What do the community guys have to say?

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by shadio5

Hey even if EA did own the rights to Live10, its still a completely different team brought in to handle the game now. That new team is being thrown into a situation of handling a engine they did not create, how far do you think they will get? Thats like asking for a blimpy sandwish at a subways restaurant, subways does not have that correct information needed to continue to make that blimpy snadwich.... You cant evolve or adapt on a game engine without its original maker or source...it will be a bootleg effort....without the real team, call it bootleg live10 VC/2k sports fan

Thats a horrible analogy. Tiburon and Canada are different studios but under the same umbrella. Its ridiculous to think that EA wouldnt leave a few employees who were knowledgable about the Live 10 engine to help guide the new team. The fact is EA wanted to move from the Live 10 engine and only use the elite engine. Just like the Live 13 team had to try to use the Elite engine, they couldve used that time to learn the Live 10 engine and built from there.

It was an indefensible decision by EA to use Elite as the foundation for 13 and the main reason why this game wasnt released.

[jersez]

Quote: Originally Posted by shadio5

Hey even if EA did own the rights to Live10, its still a completely different team brought in to handle the game now. That new team is being thrown into a situation of handling a engine they did not create, how far do you think they will get? Thats like asking for a blimpy sandwish at a subways restaurant, subways does not have that correct information needed to continue to make that blimpy snadwich.... You cant evolve or adapt on a game engine without its original maker or source...it will be a bootleg effort....without the real team, call it bootleg live10 VC/2k sports fan

The new team wasn't involved with Elite either, and from what I read they've improved the game somewhat. I would think EA sports would have the rights, to a game they created. I've never heard of a company losing rights to their own codes. I've heard Companies losing rights to the game but never the actually game codes.

[The 24th Letter]

Had Cedric22 posted in this thread? If not man someone make sure he's ok..

[Bulls321974]

Quote: Originally Posted by yungflo

yes, they have a 15 year agreement http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/sport...ory?id=1969067

I know about their 15-yr deal. I was referring to contract clauses, details that nobody can know about except the guys who have to deal with this stuff. Those contracts can always contain opting-out clauses that become law in various situations. We don't know anything about that...

[PVarck31]

Where are people getting that EA can't use or doesn't have the rights to Live 10 code?

[NYJin2011tm]

I am not even a little surprised. When they announced it was "delayed" my mind already said cancelled. Their next best move would be to just forget it! Don't even work on an NBA title because they are done imo.

[TheBadazz]

Well maybe next year it will be NBA Jam 2013 powered by ESPN!