NBA 2K14 Features Crew Mode - 3-on-3 or 5-on-5

[green225]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gman 18

Whoever said the " crewbies " were still gonna complain when they got back crew mode about all the little details is completely right Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2

because this is more blacktop than crew. jrocc, and bottledwater are making great posts in this thread, hopefully 2k is listening.

[Gman 18]

Quote: Originally Posted by bottledwaterfan25

We get it. You don't care about crew. You can stop desperately seeking attention in a thread that is obviously going to be talking about crew now.

Am I not allowed to state my opinion on a public messageboard? Its just my 2 cents

[redsfan4life]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gman 18

Plenty of people I know never played crew before. That doesn't mean I don't have any friends.

What he said was uncalled for, but you didn't really need to make your post either. Just my two cents.

[Gman 18]

Quote: Originally Posted by green225

because this is more blacktop than crew. jrocc, and bottledwater are making great posts in this thread, hopefully 2k is listening.

2k didn't even reveal all of the details about crew yet

[green225]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gman 18

2k didn't even reveal all of the details about crew yet

ronnie said name/logo customization. what i take from that is no jerseys, no arenas, no ref, no realism.

[Sundown]

Quote: Originally Posted by Da_Czar

Because it wasn't until Shake and Kspade said they wouldn't support it. They added it after they left because they stood up for yall.

Wow. That actually makes 2K look quite bad.

Essentially it sounds like 2K wanted them to shill the "return" of "Crew", which was just 3v3 Blacktop with stamina. Then they hastily hacked in 5v5 after Shake and Kspade wouldn't play ball.

Props to those couple of guys, but that doesn't give me a feeling of confidence or trust regarding what 2K was trying to pull on us this year at all.

Now it makes COMPLETE sense why "Crew" was shown running on a small screen in the background while a YouTuber talked it up in the foreground. They didn't really want to show it because they knew it would demo badly and what they had didn't look like Crew at all.

A week of coded hype for this? Yikes.

My theory is this:

2K didn't want to invest too much effort on current-gen 2K14, but wanted to retain its sales numbers since current gen consoles still have a massive install base, and current gen 2K14 will still make up a mass majority of their projected sales.

A full featured Crew would take too much resources from their other next-gen SKU, but a leaderboards Blacktop mode renamed "Crew" would be a huge marketing bullet point for the end-of-life platform, since it's one of the most requested features and they thought they could pass it off as Crew-lite with some minor tweaks. Enlist some Youtube A-listers and the rest is history.

Call me cynical, but this does feel a bit like a cynical money grab.

[LoSoisNiCEx414]

I look at 2k14 CREW mode as Kwame Brown... Hyped it all up with the #3R335 hashtag, we all thought it would be great (like Kwame Brown being #1 pick) & all we are getting is a bust.... Atleast for now

[Panicshade]

I'm sure others in here have said this but I will say it myself...

With them only focusing on current gen in all of their announcements I think it is becoming a pretty safe guess that the next gen version of 2K14 will be a bare bones/stripped down port

Crew Mode - Current Gen only
King James DLC pack - Current Gen only
Screenshots/Videos released to date - Current Gen only

Other than saying there will be PS4/X1 versions they haven't mentioned anything about the next gen releases