NBA Live 15: Is the Delay a Reason for Panic or Optimism? (Roundtable)

[magicman32]

The delay is puzzling IMO. There must be something major wrong with the game for them to break their initially commitment to bring it out on the 7th. I'm expecting the following to be fixed...

-The hop step spam

-Traveling to actually be called when it happens. (from the short clip George Hill showed me it wasn't)

-Stepping out of bounds should be called.

-The euro step. (It can't even describe Live's version of the euro step. It's that terrible).

-Players letting rebounds hit the floor.

-Improved post play and post animations.

[Klayups]

Lol.

Like I said in the other thread i'm happy they are showing the commitment to the community and gamers enough to delay the game to keep working on enhancing gameplay.

Even when the game comes out people will still find a way to complain and it wont match up to the other game but i bet you it will be fun to play.

Kudos for not being scared ot take the backlash for delaying the game & keep up the hard work yall. You made the right decision

[Sundown]

Quote: Originally Posted by GisherJohn24

Remember everyone, keep this in mind, some of the greateset games in the world had mega delays. Zelda, Uncharted, Alan Wake, Red Dead Redemption, you name it. Delays can be good!

NBA Elite 11, NBA Elite 12, NBA Elite 13, NBA Live 14.

Delays can be bad.

[CaseIH]

Quote: Originally Posted by GisherJohn24

they certainly lost focus after Wang left. Were like chickens with heads cut off after wang left. IF 15 fails, they need a new crew, simple as that.

Yeah it seemed like the 1 yr Wang was there the game looked like it might finally be coming around, even though it wasnt a good game especially compared to the competition that year, it did show some promise. Then he left and it all went to hell.

Personally I would love to see it succeed and be competitive with NBA2k, cause imo competition is always a good thing when it comes to sports game's, and there is deifnitely enough room in the market for 2 solid basketball games to succeed.

EA is definitley running on fumes with their basketball game after all the years of failures.

Nothing wrong with delaying a game to get it right, problem is EA dont have any good will left with people after all the poor products they have put out along with all the times they have shafted its customers over the years.

[GisherJohn24]

Quote: Originally Posted by shutdown10

I'm kinda shocked that you would have a post like this, because you consistently have optimistic posts about Live. I guess you understand that this is a pivotal year for them to be well received. I hope they do because I hate to see people lose their jobs when they are not put in position to succeed. I just think the Big-Wigs are not investing in them enough, and are not providing them the proper resources or personnel to really get this series off the ground.

Well I wanted 14 to be so great it was hard for me to accept how truly poor it was. I also agree completely it's a big wig problem. Not a dev problem. They need more help and need to spend money on a big crew. But we know ea loves to cut corners to save a buck. Look how they gutted NHL NEXT gen this year? What they didn't think anyone would notice? Lol

[GisherJohn24]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sundown

NBA Elite 11, NBA Elite 12, NBA Elite 13, NBA Live 14. Delays can be bad.

I'm optimistic for at least decency

[Rules]

Here is my guess to why there may be a possible delay:


NHL 15 was released with most of the previous features / game modes missing. They are taking a beating by not only the consumers but also by the press. NBA Live 15 probably had planned to do the same thing. I am guessing they decided to go back and probably add in at least a season mode that NHL 15 unfortunately did not include. I might be far off but then again it is a possibility for the delay.

[El_Poopador]

Quote: Originally Posted by GisherJohn24

they certainly lost focus after Wang left. Were like chickens with heads cut off after wang left. IF 15 fails, they need a new crew, simple as that.

This is why they're in the position they're in now, though. Every year after Live 10, they've had a new team, trying to take the series in a different direction. If the direction of the game changes every year, it will never be any good.

Everyone talks about the three year plan, but I've never seen one executed for the full three years. I'd like to see what game looks like after year three, to see if they can pull off what they started out to do. Changing teams is not the way to do that.