NBA Live 13 Has Been Canned

[DickDalewood]

Quote: Originally Posted by mvb34

If you go back to earlier articles they didn't have full dev team together until last November.. but continue to crow...

Quote: Originally Posted by truintellectplaya

Damn, guess they will not get to make that big splash in sales that the OS staff promised.

So we've got a poster STILL defending EA's Live team after all this, which is just embarassing (seriously, does your dad work there or something?), and another playing the "OS is in EA's back pocket" card (despite multiple mods in this thread alone raking EA over the coals for this).

Classic.

[Sdrawkcab321]

Just think about what would happen to madden if they lost their exclusivity to it. Might go the way of nba live. EA has just not been able to put out good games for these next gen systems.

[DickDalewood]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sdrawkcab321

Just think about what would happen to madden if they lost their exclusivity to it. Might go the way of nba live. EA has just not been able to put out good games for these next gen systems.

Well, let's at least be fair... FIFA and NHL are VERY good games, and EA as a company puts out a ton of other great non-sports games.

Obviously Live is garbage, and Madden is... ok... but let's not throw the entire company under the same blanket here.

[Boilerbuzz]

Quote: Originally Posted by mvb34

If you go back to earlier articles they didn't have full dev team together until last November.. but continue to crow...

This argument really needs to die. Fine, they didn't work for 3 years. They took some time off. But it's not as if they started from scratch. There was a functional game there already. They had a framework to work with. With 70 people for 8 months and a headstart, there is little excuse for not putting out SOMETHING. So lets just stop that argument here and now. Time wasn't an excuse for Elite and they aren't using it here now. The game was just not up to snuff. Accept it and move on.

[Boilerbuzz]

Quote: Originally Posted by jwtucker710

Rumor maybe they are waiting on the new consoles coming out next year, to implement a new game engine unlike anything seen in a basketball sim.

Funny. That's just what Hiphopgamer said...

[Boilerbuzz]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ermolli

Can't say I was completely surprised to read this news but it's odd that they've released a trailer a couple of weeks before its cancellation. What I don't understand is if they wanted to continue building from Elite 11 so bad then why did they change studios? They lost precious time to continue making the game from going to Tiburon, hiring people and make them understand a flawed code when if the team in EA Canada continued making the game they should be having a decent game by now since they always talk about "three-year plans". I don't know how they'll recover from this but they need to bring their A game if they want to have interest from people and their own fans.

They went with Elite because they and to go in a new direction. They were already committed to that had have to see it through. People have fallen for the "next gen engine" bit for too long with the Live engine. Live 10 is the last you will see of the Live engine that has been in place for quite too long.

And they will recover. You have far too many people. That care only about the label. Not what's actually in the package. Just traverse old threads and look at the people ready and willing to buy the game knowing full well it was likely to be the inferior game. The same people who's acceptance lead to the denial that things needed to change for that game. So they will be fine. They could release a text based basketball game, and some people will buy it anyway talking about how great the menus look...

[P-Dub]

I think they just don't get it. Every time they make a decision to change their progress they set themselves, the game, and consumers back. They aren't going to make any money until they accept that they can't make a competitive product in one year of development. With annual releases, there are going to be bumps in the road, but they seem to have driven off a cliff. They need to look at what they did from Live 08 to Live 10. It took three dev cycles to get a servicable game that actually had potential to become great.

Live 13 was developed with a release in mind, so the devs had deadlines and probably made sacrifices in the game to try and hit them on time. All of that now goes to waste because even with another cycle of development, it will still be a first year game. EA could have planned a two year cycle and the devs wouldn't have needed to make as many sacrifices. They aren't going to be able to progress until they can release a product.

[mvb34]

Quote: Originally Posted by DickDalewood

So we've got a poster STILL defending EA's Live team after all this, which is just embarassing (seriously, does your dad work there or something?), and another playing the "OS is in EA's back pocket" card (despite multiple mods in this thread alone raking EA over the coals for this). Classic.

Facts are the facts...