Worst gaming community ever

[teambayern]

2k sports has a serious job on its hands, because lord knows I wouldn't want to be tasked with creating a game these rats couldn't infiltrate.

Of all my years of gaming, I have never seen such a consistently pathetic group of gamers as those playing 2k9 on live. If you don't believe me, play a ranked match, and see how every single player pulls the same bull every game. You can't advance a runner to second without getting a pickoff. Worse yet, the system to catch these guys doesn't work, so they do it all day most games with no penalty. Not to mention all the other shenanigans.

Worse yet is that the custom lobby is dead. The biggest problem with this game isn't the glitches in gameply, its the lack of any community to push past them.

Look at APF. It had very serious glitches that could be easily exploited. 2k patched some and the rest were handled by a generally honest community. You can find decent lobby games for that game still. This game just came out and already you can't find a sim game to save your life.

How have you all handled this? Is league play or AI the only way to go?

[baa7]

VC said they're catering the game towards the casual, pick-up-and-play gamer. Looks like they got exactly what they hoped for.

[JBH3]

Yea I played ONE game on on-line Sunday, and it was my worst experience (even over Madden) w/ a sports video gm.

My opponent scored 13 runs on me, 12 were from HRs, and when Cole Hamels got tired he brought in Brett Myers.

Whenever I got a runner on he was pitching it to so fast I couldn't even get a one step lead.

It was just a pathetic show of baseball, and the only reason I could see playing on-line is to unlock stupid cards since I am an achievement whore.

[dj live]

I agree, those who try and play a fair game in a ranked match are going to face those who want to win at all cost. This is nothing new and sure isnt isolated to MLB 2k9 (Madden, cough).

The main issue with the new lobby system 2k has for its onlline community is the match up itself. I would never play someone in ALL Pro who has a feedback of under 80 (myself 93% pos.). That alone gives you a good idea of the type of opponent you are going to face. This no peek approach is rediculous and patch or no patch will not fix the problem of playing fair.

Custom matches seem to be the best way to try and get a decent game but it can take ahwile to get one. I post in my sig that I'm using custom sliders, balls and strikes and only sim players....and it seems to work ok...

I recently joined a league with some other SIM gamers and so far the experience has been onpar with my old ALL Pro groups I used to play....

I tried to post a thread on SIM players for this title but only one response has been made....Feel free to look me up online should you want a str8 up game of baseball...

[jeffy777]

Well, if it wasn't so insanely easy to pickoff runners then it wouldn't be a problem. People are going to use exploits until they are fixed. Online players do this in every game that has exploits (such as call of duty, battlefield 2, etc.)

Don't get be wrong: I'm not defending people who exploit a problem like this, but you can't really blame the players. It's 2K's fault for leaving the problem in the game. This problem is so obvious that I find it absolutely amazing that it didn't come up in their testing....they need to fix it ASAP.

[bulls23]

You can beat a cheeser who keeps trying to pick off by pausing the game real quick when he tries to do it. It will make the game go back to the batting view.

[Scott1174]

People this game sucks period...lol VC and 2k don't care they are out to get there money just like AIG!

[baa7]

Quote: Originally Posted by bulls23

You can beat a cheeser who keeps trying to pick off by pausing the game real quick when he tries to do it. It will make the game go back to the batting view.

Hey now that sounds like a fun way to spend time baseball gaming online.