Sean O'Brien Issues Apology for NBA Live's Quality, Promises Improvements

[King_B_Mack]

Quote: Originally Posted by buddaking

Im truly disappointed that i spent 60 plus tax on this trash, i honestly try to like it and get into it but it was just to bad, very bad. EA knew this sh*t and basically gave all us basketball fan the middle finger. Sean O Brien apology seem fake to me, after playing live 14, i don't think i will never touch another basketball game from EA sport..............NEVER Enjoy my $60 plus tax money you rob from us gamer because im pretty sure none of us basketball gamers will support your nba live series again.

I'm sorry bro, but if some nefarious looking character comes walking towards you and you hand him your money before he says anything or shows you a gun or knife or something, it's not robbery. If you went out and spent your money on this game without a single millisecond of actual gameplay footage released from them, then it's on you.

[magicman32]

I have a question. How can they have a bounce tek demo at e3 to promote the game but not have a practice mode in the actually game? That demo at e3 impressed me. The graphics didn't even look bad. It also wasn't slowed down.

The actual game looks and plays horrible. How did they go from that e3 demo to total ****. Smh

In regards to the apology and improvements I'll have to see it to believe it.


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[Fist Of Kings]

Quote: Originally Posted by Klayups

It's good of them to acknowledge shortcomings and it's good customer service to promise results on this years version but this could have all been avoided by being truthful in the beginning not hiding content. Perhaps then feedback could have been given prior to people spending $60 to beta test a game. Clearly it wouldn't have been good business to do this, obviously. However the fact that this is even a business practice that is followed or seen as a good idea is the real problem. Be honest and upfront with your customer base...especially when $ is involved. Hiding and being half truthful only makes things worse.

Yeah, info on Live 14 was so hard to get that a lot of us thought the Kyrie Irving/Deandre Jordan clip was in game footage.

[thmst30]

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Graphics and animations will see "drastic and immediate" improvements in the coming weeks and months within the game.

How is that even possible? I call major BS on that. The size of patch to replace the art files in the game and introduce new animations would be massive. I can't imagine they have the capability to basically release a 2.0 version of an entire game via a patch.

[coolcras7]

Here are the facts EA is not going to continue to support Live 14 if it does not make a profit, Sean and make all the promises he wants but EA is run by guys in suit.

[ngreatshark]

Quote: Originally Posted by blackceasar

This is what I DON"T get and clearly O'Brien and his Live team DONT GET IT.. I mean it sounds like he's saying "well everything else suffered so you can have authentic game play and THATS WHAT WE GAVE YOU PEOPLE!"... when in reality.. he didn't give the Live fanheads authentic gameplay and contorl at the cost of visuals and animation. At this day and age of "next gen" and that marketing gimmick "infinity engine" or whatever they are calling it, the ANIMATIONS alone play a huge part in the gameplay. You are controlling 3d models of people to score points and how they move, react, etc plays as ABSOLUTE MAJOR ROLE IN THAT!!! WTF? You aren't making Defender or Donkey Kong here dudes. Your animations go hand in hand with the game play in this next gen day and age of physics affecting gameplay. And "foundation for the future?" If you are selling just a foundation then why do you expect people to pay full price for it??? Its like you fools are home builders, and you poured some concrete and stopped there and want me to drop a couple hundered thousand on that????? because I know its a "good foundation"... where's the rest of the home if you want me to pay full price? You think I'm gonna roll up on your concrete foundation you just poured and say "Daaaamn Sean.. that's some awesome concrete you poured.. what? 200k full price for the home? Sold.. here's my money". Then he goes on to say... What? 12 months? You killed your last game like 2+ years ago... 12 months? Really? If you guys have only been working on this thing for the past 12 months, you should have spent the 12 months prior to that when you weren't working on this game playing 2k12 and 2K13....and no.. NOT to copy the game.. but to research it.. look at it.. see WHY I gets great reviews, and why people like it..and why people dont complain about dropping 60.00 on it. Are you so big and mighty of a company that you think you are too good to admit someone else is putting out a better product then you,and you need to figure out how to actually do it BETTER or at least just as good without making the exact same game. Either you and your team there are full of yourselves and delusional about what you think is a great basketball game and refuse to admit someone else has been stealing market share from you in this genre year after year.. OR... you all are just flat out lazy and HOPE there's not too big of a blacklash... Either way.. you people have really no excuse. You have come out and admitted what we all already knew, they your game is just not good, or even just OK... at least not OK enough for ask people for 60.00.. you ADMITTED this basically which makes you guys look even worse because you are all grown adults. If you know your game is bad.. why didnt you try to make it good before putting it out????? So let me point out one more talking point statement he had... Huh? What??? The "first chapter??" Most intelligent people would assume the first chapter was when you guys did the nobel thing of scrapping your last game and starting over to make a better game.. ummm.. 2 years ago. First chapter? Ooooh.... let me move on from my "foundation" metaphor and talk about "chapters"... A can see Allen Iverson right now.. "chapter?... CHAPTER??? .. man.. here you are asking me to pay 60.00 for a full game and you wanna talk about chapter".... Man.. so basically its like you wrote the next Harry Potter, and I ordered it off Amazon, paid you full price and when I got my book..it had like 20 pages in it.. you know.. A CHAPTER... Just get out of basketball, or at least come back when it's truly time. There's nothing stopping you from making a bball game that's not this awful.. you know it and we all know it... so really..what IS the excuse? Excuse me while I drop the mic, and clear up that hard drive space on my PS4....

Well said sir

[alexthegreat]

Took them long enough

[bigsmallwood]

So...no game for 4 years...and all we get are horrible graphics..massive legacy issues...and just all around terrible gameplay. This is straight disrespect from EA to the fans of the series. There is no way that ANY game should be this horrible after a 4 year hiatus. Wow....smh