NBA 2K15 Crew Mode Returns on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

[Mrleaderboards]

Games are meant to be dominated and exploited. Especially online against other humans. That's when you find the flaws In the game and hopefully during the -season
The devs can work on fixing the exploits. What? Y'all didn't know ?We as the consumers and players of this franchise have unwillingly been given the responsibility of being game testers every year. So with that being said, its also our obligation towards the rest of the sim basketball videogame community to make sure we give back the best possible feedback based off our concerns and interactions with 2k. A lot of the time you don't know what's wring with a game until you play against another opponent who exploits you. When you lab with whatever exploits that were used on you against other opponents and the success rate is high or OP, then it is at that time our duties to let devs know we found something that needs to be addressed so that it doesn't become an online Cheesefest.

NOT everyone who plays online wants to be cheated to death.

[LD2k]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mrleaderboards

Games are meant to be dominated and exploited. Especially online against other humans. That's when you find the flaws In the game and hopefully during the -season The devs can work on fixing the exploits. What? Y'all didn't know ?We as the consumers and players of this franchise have unwillingly been given the responsibility of being game testers every year. So with that being said, its also our obligation towards the rest of the sim basketball videogame community to make sure we give back the best possible feedback based off our concerns and interactions with 2k. A lot of the time you don't know what's wring with a game until you play against another opponent who exploits you. When you lab with whatever exploits that were used on you against other opponents and the success rate is high or OP, then it is at that time our duties to let devs know we found something that needs to be addressed so that it doesn't become an online Cheesefest. NOT everyone who plays online wants to be cheated to death.

Dev's have, literally, sat in on sessions where I play another human (and TRY to cheese it up, on purpose mind you) and have looked at the player behavior in situations.

Very tough to "cheese" this year. Gameplay team has done an incredible job of addressing user feedback from last year and converting it into competitive game play with 2K15. I don't disagree that human vs human is where players look for advantages - just noting the team is aware of that and is doing testing on it.

[Kurupt_XxX]

Quote: Originally Posted by yungsta404

I am willing to bet they are going to try to "innovate" crew mode for NEXT GEN and push it with some kind of pay-wall. Just like how they tried to "innovate" association mode for NEXT GEN with My GM and laced it with micro transitions. Im predicting you are going to have to buy uniforms, maybe some kind of system where you need to buy contracts to play games like in My Team, buy stuff to customize your arena, having to buy team accessories from a crew store, or even worst...... Maybe you will have to buy some kind of season pass to even access it. Not sure if 2k would stoop down to that level but you never know, they are a large corporation that is looking to maximize their profits, and they have been EXTREMELY cocky lately. I expect 2k to be ruthless with their microtransitions for NEXT GEN "crew" since its such an desirable mode. It has great potential to be a money sucking tool.

i really don't care if i have to pay VC to play crew mode for next gen.I will do it. Best game mode of any sports franchise (aside from the hackers). Good on 2k especially if they give it to us in next gen, which i hope they do.

[stjsryj]

It's only on last-gen! WOW! lol.

[TREIZE2K]

That's great don't play that stupid mode anyway. Because it happen all the time someone will hack or buy their way to a 99 player on the first day the game comes out then people start getting mad so stop with the crew mode and any other mode like it.

[nyk_fatboy]

Is crew really only for last gen only, i mean its a good move money wise for 2k.. you got gamers that will buy both the PS4/XBOX1 version and PS3/Xbox 360 version because of crew, then you got the PS3 & XBOX 360 guys who will buy it regardless because they havent upgraded to next gen yet

Crew mode has been in demand for quite some time now, its kind of a low blow that its only for last gen. Im a big fan of crew myself but i dont think id go back to my old console just to play one mode. But at least you PS3 and XBOX360 guys have it back. I rather see that then it just being completely ignored again.

[313entlogic]

I'll tell you this buddy. If crew is anything like parks with OP VC'D up players I'm not touching it. I absolutely HATE parks mode it's so generic. All of those fake cross overs, steals, jumping over people, dancing save that for street volume and nba jam.

WE want realism make us earn our points to upgrade our players the hard way. Make the game real again. One should not be sliding everywhere on defense. They need to make the game start on that end and then offense. Scoring is fun I LOVE dropping 18-20+ but come on when that's all your focused on as a sports company then we have a problem. The game should be focused on ALL areas. Fifa isn't just offense it's perfectly balanced. Nhl is balanced.

Ld2k coming and telling us how devs have done x, y, and does nothing for me anymore. Because as we all know for the past several years they have "fixed" things for years only for the same problems to exist. How many times has 2k fixed servers?? That's just one of many things.

So until I see the game and still see the same messed up issues + more problems broken features and broken modes we didn't ask for I'll gladly assume this game will be no different than past installations the same b s.

Been playing next gen '14 and it makes me sick. They hyped how different this game was how fluid it was and in reality it's the same as last gen. There was no learning curve just boom same game same problems.

[Mrleaderboards]

Quote: Originally Posted by 313entlogic

I'll tell you this buddy. If crew is anything like parks with OP VC'D up players I'm not touching it. I absolutely HATE parks mode it's so generic. All of those fake cross overs, steals, jumping over people, dancing save that for street volume and nba jam. WE want realism make us earn our points to upgrade our players the hard way. Make the game real again. One should not be sliding everywhere on defense. They need to make the game start on that end and then offense. Scoring is fun I LOVE dropping 18-20+ but come on when that's all your focused on as a sports company then we have a problem. The game should be focused on ALL areas. Fifa isn't just offense it's perfectly balanced. Nhl is balanced. Ld2k coming and telling us how devs have done x, y, and does nothing for me anymore. Because as we all know for the past several years they have "fixed" things for years only for the same problems to exist. How many times has 2k fixed servers?? That's just one of many things. So until I see the game and still see the same messed up issues + more problems broken features and broken modes we didn't ask for I'll gladly assume this game will be no different than past installations the same b s. Been playing next gen '14 and it makes me sick. They hyped how different this game was how fluid it was and in reality it's the same as last gen. There was no learning curve just boom same game same problems.

Funny thing is, if you ever notice whenever LD2K speaks around Ronnie, it's almost as if he's on a leash. Ronnie will look at him, as to say "don't even think about it". LD2k is one of US bro. He's part of the machine now, but at one time he was just like you and me. I feel like he has our best intentions when it comes to implementing hardcore competitive game modes into the NBA 2k franchise. Him and Ronnie's jobs are to be the Liaison between the community and the game company to hype up the game and keep developers informed of what the people like or dislike about their game. I'm Sure at some point conversations between Mike Wang, and Rob Jones were held by Ronnie & LD2k about what the fans want, and clearly the devs know by way of them implementing CREWS mode last year for 2k14, and now this year with crew mode returning in all its glory for 2k15.

My only thing is, that you shouldn't go so hard on them, because ultimately, no matter what chris manning and ronnie singh go back and tell devs, its up to the developers, and the marketing team at 2k to decide whats best for the franchise. Although i understand VC being a huge part of their income, i'll never be a fan of Microtransactions in Videogames. Paying $65 bucks for a videogame may be a broken format, but its a format i've grown accustomed to and refuse to have to pay an extra fee just so my "avatar" online can get better much faster than actually working on him naturally.

Defense is another story....this game has suffered horribly in that department since 2k11. Nba 2k12 started with the sliding, then in 13' they removed the feature to block shots, then in 14, they brought it back. Hopefully in 15' they've calibrated it back to how it was in 2k11.Now with us going into NG, lets hope and pray that we can get a working version of crew mode as well.

The only difference i noticed was, during last years campaign for CREWS mode, it was written in stone that CREWS mode was an xbox 360/PS3 exclusive and it was NOT coming for NG.



This year during the live stream, although they said it was coming for 360/PS3, they also never said the elements of crew were not going to be available to us on next gen. I just think the install base is greater for Last gen and the conversion rate from LAst Gen to Next gen is slower than expected due to lack of software from NG systems. So i understand why they would want to please last gen gamers with news of crew mode.

All is not lost fellas. Keep up the faith and also keep the 2k bashing to a minimum.