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

[ngreatshark]

why apologize...

[MannyFresco]

You know, to be honest...This is very lame in my opinion. I know on OS we try to be respectful towards companies, unlike those kids on IGN. Let me just give EA the business tonight. First of all, 3 years is the time that you had to develop this game. 3 damn years. That is a lot of time for a company that has tons of money. Second, you went the whole 2013 without showing progress on what you were working on. A couple trailers is never enough. Third...you released the demo along side the release day which in all my years of playing games is the most awkward thing I have ever seen. Fourth...which ties into my first point. Why the hell didn't EA release this game on XBOX 360 or PS3?? would have made way more sense. It really makes them look bad when they were working on ONE version of the game and still messed it up. 2k Sports was developing two games at once in a single year. I had to get that off my chest because I am very disappointed that this games is bad because I used to be a live guy that has moved on with the great 2k series. There is still a piece of my heart that still wants to play some live. This BS of an effort just killed it for me.

This apology is a just a scam because they couldn't hold the game back again so they figured, lets just release it and apologize for it. I have no hopes for LIVE 15. Last live game that was good was Live 10 only because they stole 2k's programmer for one year..then he went back to 2k with all of EA's knowledge. SMH

[King_B_Mack]

Just for the record, it's 4 years, not 3. NBA Live 10 was released in October of 2009.

[Vni]

Why charge full price for this game? It's just too late to be sorry but nice try EA.

[ngreatshark]

Quote: Originally Posted by jmood88

Meanwhile, the developers are on twitter telling people that the game is for "sim" gamers and that the people who gave it bad reviews don't know much about basketball.

Yeah clearly we don't know what we are talking about, we just need to learn basketball and learn how to use there more sim than ever game mechanics

[allhailben7]

Now they have no excuse for how bad the game is, which was atrocious by almost anybody's opinion... But they did not really have 3 years to develop the game. Sony only started giving out/selling development kits in the middle of last year (xbox, I don't know).

It's a bad game and there's no excuse, but don't say they had 3 years to work with the new technology.

[bspang2]

Can we get the same apology from the Madden 25 team as well???!!!!

[bspang2]

Quote: Originally Posted by noshun

Sad.. Sean O'Brien is the new David Littman. He lied to all of us about gameplay before summer, and now they come out like its groundhog day, and guys.. excuse me "Struggle Live Apologists" are praising this.. You guys are the reason Live is in this state.. you settle and buy mediocrity, and now you are struggling to find aspects of the game to like to disguise the disbelief of the shattered pride you have. Some of you were lungs full of air, chest pumped out, holding the Live 14 flag baton, saying the other game is stale, yady yada and still are in denial seeing how bad this game is... UNBELIEVABLE.. On top of that you have Scott OG saying that he doesnt care about the low reviews from IGN initally, but then calls those guys "nerfhoops". I wonder what he thinks of Sean, being that hes apologizing for this game he oversaw? No offense to Sean O'Brien either about saying sorry, but this is just sad. now Andrew Wilson is apologizing too.. They're saying that player feedback is showing the game is hard to learn, but they have simplified controls.. so what the heck does that mean. especially for the Struggle Live Apologists screaming that Live has better control then the other game, etc.. This is damage control at its highest level Anyone seen Dounte on the EA forums.. pray for that guy... & Sirs, Ced and a few others... This is what happened to you guys.. guess who's EA, and who the Live fan is?

Finally someone says something besides me!!! Thank you for this.