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

[MarvinOida]

Quote: Originally Posted by mccartney23

where did you find that it is played in an arena marvin?

Twitter. No one looked/listened to those who already mentioned it...


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[the_Big_T_Dog]

I personally feel that 2k14 will be an embarrassment of a game. First they reveal you can block dunks *cough* which should be in the game anyway *cough* Then they give you the SAME EXACT FEATURE from 2k13 (3 v 3 Blacktop), throw the "Crew" name on it, put out some secret code so everyone will orgasm at the thought of crew being back, and reveal the half-assed version of the game to the world. I'm not a programmer, but how hard could it possibly be to basically implement online team-up with your my players in it? Time and time again, 2k sacrifices a good product and the opinions of their fans to save a few bucks. As usual, nothing but laziness and greed from 2k. I will not purchase nba 2k14 this year. End rant

[MarvinOida]

Quote: Originally Posted by the_Big_T_Dog

I personally feel that 2k14 will be an embarrassment of a game. First they reveal you can block dunks *cough* which should be in the game anyway *cough* Then they give you the SAME EXACT FEATURE from 2k13 (3 v 3 Blacktop), throw the "Crew" name on it, put out some secret code so everyone will orgasm at the thought of crew being back, and reveal the half-assed version of the game to the world. I'm not a programmer, but how hard could it possibly be to basically implement online team-up with your my players in it? Time and time again, 2k sacrifices a good product and the opinions of their fans to save a few bucks. As usual, nothing but laziness and greed from 2k. I will not purchase nba 2k14 this year. End rant

Pretty hard, you have 10 different myCareer players info having to be spread to 9 other players over the Internet. And also consider the Internet connection. It's something the average video gamer doesn't understand.

You seem new and do not know how marketing goes.



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[mccartney23]

Quote: Originally Posted by MarvinOida

Twitter. No one looked/listened to those who already mentioned it... Tap Tap Taptalking away on my iPhone

where are twitter did you find it? I cant seem to find it

[MarvinOida]

Quote: Originally Posted by mccartney23

where are twitter did you find it? I cant seem to find it

Ronnie2K or Ld2k or a Team Up member


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[the_Big_T_Dog]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sundown

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.

You are completely right, and it is a money grab. What i'm so mad about is that they played it up as crew so everyone would essentially throw money at them while they're giving us half of what was promised to us. I can guarantee that the code for the crew we know and love is sitting on a hard drive somewhere in 2k and they'll "fix" the 2k14 trash in 2k15 because this console craziness will be over by them. It just feels cheap and like they're playing us as customers.

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@MarvinOida Shouldn't be that hard they did it before, 2-3 years of time to figure out how to best configure the code to make it work properly. No excuses, don't make excuses for them. Just saying, I'm still very much elated to see/hear how it works fully though and I'll remain hopeful for a Xbox One version of Crew.

[the_Big_T_Dog]

Pretty hard, you have 10 different myCareer players info having to be spread to 9 other players over the Internet. And also consider the Internet connection. It's something the average video gamer doesn't understand.

You seem new and do not know how marketing goes.



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Okay, so you're saying that even though they can do 3 v 3, it's too hard to do 5 v 5 even though they've had 3 years to code it. To emphasize this point, shake and kspade said they wouldn't stand for a 3 v 3 game mode and demanded 5 v 5. 2k gave them that and is now advertising a 5 v 5 mode. How are they gonna have that if the game releases in October unless 1) they already have the coding ready for 5 v 5 or 2) the coding isn't as difficult as you make it seem.
PS: Of course I'm new congrats you can read the box with my name in it