NBA 2K14 Next-Gen Screenshot - Building Your MyGM

[cthurt]

So since VC gives the gm attributes...what makes the players better throughout the season...is it based off how the players play...or will it be the same way as current gen which is totally based off age and potential rating.

[the_future420]

Quote: Originally Posted by supermati

Leftos clearly said he'd listen to feedback once people play the mode. Well, let me tell you, I don't even need to play the mode to know that VC HINDERS whatever good or bad experience MyGM was gonna offer. It's just pointless for any franchise playing fan for many reasons. For example: Suppose I'm playing a MyGM career with the Pelicans, I'm doing the right things and so I see some VC coming in. I'm close to buying an upgrade. I then take a break and play some quick games. This results in more VC coming in. I go back to MyGM with MORE VC than I had the last time I played it. I can now buy an upgrade "My GM" does not actually deserve. Also, as it's been said before, even if the VC would stop being a cross-mode thing, it still makes the thing really annoying. Football Manager is a GREAT example mentioned in this thread. The Manager has a series of attributes that dynamically change depending on user made decisions. How is that not more immersive than VC is beyond me. People being angry for the right reasons. VC being in MyGM and people hating it was a really predicable response if you ask me. I was excited about 2k14 next gen. But I'm really not buying a PS4 if the VC madness will be part of a game mode that is supposed to be an accurate representation of, well, being a GM.

DING DING DING! This is the exact reason why VC is terrible. I could care less that 2k is selling it because there's no chance in hell of me buying it. But when VC earned from one mode overlaps onto the other, it makes it impossible to run your association realistically.

I shouldn't be able to improve MYGM just because I played and won a bunch of exhibitions games against my buddy, or I had a few good games with My Player. These things happen in different spaces, independent of one another. The fact that VC is earned in both and can be used in all modes completely negates the "grind" of making your MyGm or MyPlayer better, and thats the main reason we play these modes. To take a team (association) or player( MYplayer) and over time build them up to be good. Takes a lot of fun out of the modes.

[bestout51683]

I wonder if the online franchise will work like this?

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by the_future420

DING DING DING! This is the exact reason why VC is terrible. I could care less that 2k is selling it because there's no chance in hell of me buying it. But when VC earned from one mode overlaps onto the other, it makes it impossible to run your association realistically. I shouldn't be able to improve MYGM just because I played and won a bunch of exhibitions games against my buddy, or I had a few good games with My Player. These things happen in different spaces, independent of one another. The fact that VC is earned in both and can be used in all modes completely negates the "grind" of making your MyGm or MyPlayer better, and thats the main reason we play these modes. To take a team (association) or player( MYplayer) and over time build them up to be good. Takes a lot of fun out of the modes.

Let me preface this by saying that I hate VC. I wish 2K would get rid of it, but I understand that isn't going to happen. I hate it in MyCareer and I hate it in this. Nothing is dumber to me than looking at the contracts of players around the league and seeing 4 years 50 million dollars or something like that for guys on their player cards and then 600 VC or some stupid **** like that on your player's card. That doesn't even touch the fact that you can't even wear accessories for your player without having to use VC to purchase the gear which is stupid since we know guys aren't paying for that **** in the actual NBA. LeBron wears a double wide NBA headband that you couldn't buy if you tried and he wears different ones each game. I promise you he isn't rolling to the NBA store in NYC before every game or hitting up the online shop to buy them. This stupid VC decision has also caused it where your player's accessory colors don't change like they're supposed to with the rest of the team because they've separated things where you're buying a specific white or black item that has no team color designation when it should.

Having said all that, this bolded complaint makes no sense. If you earn VC in another mode then don't spend it in your MyGM. There's nothing forcing you to buy anything ahead of schedule with that coin.

[franzis]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

Let me preface this by saying that I hate VC. I wish 2K would get rid of it, but I understand that isn't going to happen.

As long as people will keep buying it

[the_future420]

Quote: Originally Posted by King_B_Mack

Let me preface this by saying that I hate VC. I wish 2K would get rid of it, but I understand that isn't going to happen. I hate it in MyCareer and I hate it in this. Nothing is dumber to me than looking at the contracts of players around the league and seeing 4 years 50 million dollars or something like that for guys on their player cards and then 600 VC or some stupid **** like that on your player's card. That doesn't even touch the fact that you can't even wear accessories for your player without having to use VC to purchase the gear which is stupid since we know guys aren't paying for that **** in the actual NBA. LeBron wears a double wide NBA headband that you couldn't buy if you tried and he wears different ones each game. I promise you he isn't rolling to the NBA store in NYC before every game or hitting up the online shop to buy them. This stupid VC decision has also caused it where your player's accessory colors don't change like they're supposed to with the rest of the team because they've separated things where you're buying a specific white or black item that has no team color designation when it should. Having said all that, this bolded complaint makes no sense. If you earn VC in another mode then don't spend it in your MyGM. There's nothing forcing you to buy anything ahead of schedule with that coin.

So what's the solution? Are we supposed to use pen and paper to track the VC we've earned in each mode and then keep a ledger of all activity for each mode? I'm an accountant in real life, and thats the LAST thing I would want to be in a video game.

[jeremym480]

I guess I'll have to keep up with VC that I accumulate from each mode myself.

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by the_future420

So what's the solution? Are we supposed to use pen and paper to track the VC we've earned in each mode and then keep a ledger of all activity for each mode? I'm an accountant in real life, and thats the LAST thing I would want to be in a video game.

Honestly I don't know. Why not go for that. People are ready to burn down the offices of 2K because they don't have 30 team association control primarily because it was a workaround to a problem in the game. Writing down the VC you've earned in MyGM just so you know what you had shouldn't be too big of an issue. It's a workaround to the problem.