NBA 2K15 Ships on October 7th, Pre-Order and Get the KD MVP Bonus Pack

[midwestking100]

This is sad. NBA 2k is starting to frighten me. 2k went from being a sim-realism,legends heavy basketball video game to a VC, my whatever driven machine smh.

[Sports fanantic]

If 2k doesn't pull it together, their competitor will start to creep up on them

[ERA]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sports fanantic

If 2k doesn't pull it together, their competitor will start to creep up on them

Word, those Live screens released today really caught me off-guard.

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[franzis]

The commercial is nice but they basically stole the idea from the "Becoming Joel" Last of Us commercial.
VC is really bad news. I guess there is no coming back.
I'll tell ya one thing T, I'm gettin' too old for this nonsense (cit)

[Clappington]

We all know why VC is in the game and why it wont be going anywhere...and why wouldn't you have microtransactions from a company stand point?

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by Clappington

We all know why VC is in the game and why it wont be going anywhere...and why wouldn't you have microtransactions from a company stand point?

I'm with you, from a business standpoint it most certainly makes sense, particularly if the company is certain virtual currency and its increasingly all-encompassing emphasis will not drive away enough customers to create a negative monetary impact (that is, that sales lost - for whatever reason - does not eclipse money made from VC).

From an artistic aspect though, I think there are myriad reasons as to why virtual currency is a very questionable feature in many regards. And since gamers tend to play the games whose artistic triumphs they find most exceptional (and by artistic, I am referring to the entire creation of product), I do not believe we're bound to find many folks on this forum who will excuse poor creative choices simply because it might be better for that company's bottom line.

[Taer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Clappington

We all know why VC is in the game and why it wont be going anywhere...and why wouldn't you have microtransactions from a company stand point?

It is not about having it or not. It is about the implementation and deployment of the system within the game. The dlc/microtransaction model a company uses and models into their game is the issue.

A perfect example of how implementing this wrong is in the next-gen Association mode. Leftos has a lot of awesome ideas and his vision of what an Association mode can be excites me and most Association nuts to no end. However, when you couple his design with a microtransaction design that puts even the most basic function behind a gate it turns the experience into a cluster.

Charging virtual currency to even get off the most basic roster moves is a perfect example of an implementation gone wildly wrong.

[franzis]

The real point is that you cannot invade alle the modes with VC. It's already hard to have a balanced (from a consumer standpoint) system when you have VC in 1 or 2 modes. It becomes impossible when every mode you play needs VC to some extent.