04:46 PM - September 17, 2011 by belliveau1918
According to Kotaku's Owen Good, NBA 2K12 Legends will not be available online.
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NBA 2K12 News Post
04:46 PM - September 17, 2011 by belliveau1918According to Kotaku's Owen Good, NBA 2K12 Legends will not be available online.
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# 161
SdotThaDon @ 09/19/11 01:32 PM
Don't think there is a viable excuse for not being able to use them:
•Balance issues=unranked only
•not having matching rosters= teams are already on disc, allow those who unlocked them to play with said teams and lock them out for those who haven't until they do so.
•Different eras=standardize games to be played under modern rules or allow this to be chosen when setting up. Keep modern presentation to streamline it.
•technical issues adding teams= really?
I may not be a dev but this shouldn't be impossible....hoping for better news on this.
•Balance issues=unranked only
•not having matching rosters= teams are already on disc, allow those who unlocked them to play with said teams and lock them out for those who haven't until they do so.
•Different eras=standardize games to be played under modern rules or allow this to be chosen when setting up. Keep modern presentation to streamline it.
•technical issues adding teams= really?
I may not be a dev but this shouldn't be impossible....hoping for better news on this.
Perhaps it has to do with the moneyball tournaments the game always opens up with? Perhaps they don't want players competing with those teams and didn't have time to lock them out?
Just spitballing, I don't really think that's plausible.
Just spitballing, I don't really think that's plausible.
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On second thought, there would be an easy fix to this. Make a separate lobby where you can choose all teams that is separate from the virgin gaming lobby, so yea this definitely does is not the case
# 165
SdotThaDon @ 09/19/11 01:59 PM
Let's just hope this isn't leading up to an online legends pass dlc lol.
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# 167
SdotThaDon @ 09/19/11 07:37 PM
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This is extremely disappointing. What's the point of getting the pre-order teams then? You can only use them locally.
I am not really an online gamer but I have played against my brother and a friend of mine online and few relatives too. I absolutely hated playing as current teams only on 2k11 since I am not a big fan of today's NBA. I was looking forward to finally being able to use classic teams online since my brother hardly comes over, and the other family members I have played with live in Mexico, and my other friend lives too far. Playing the computer only gets boring, win or lose. not sure why 2k is now having this greatest team ever debate commercial if classic teams cannot be played online.
I'm thinking that 2k will save this feature for future installments and try to use that as a selling point and by then who knows, maybe Barkley and Miller would have also agreed to be in the game.
They need to save things for next year and the year after that and so on. Whatever I'm sure they will explain their logic, which may or may not go well with those of us whom are disappointed with the exclusion of classic teams online.
I'm thinking that 2k will save this feature for future installments and try to use that as a selling point and by then who knows, maybe Barkley and Miller would have also agreed to be in the game.
They need to save things for next year and the year after that and so on. Whatever I'm sure they will explain their logic, which may or may not go well with those of us whom are disappointed with the exclusion of classic teams online.
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This has got to be something about their capacity for what can be held on their servers or something. It just doesn't make sense otherwise. Their is a huge empathizes in every other game that comes out on its online features... you poor this money into legends and then not have that part of online? Online is possibly 50% of their consumers time spent using their product.
# 174
SdotThaDon @ 09/20/11 10:45 PM
Dear madness, we are still waiting to hear your method.....
sincerly,
Sdot
sincerly,
Sdot
# 175
dukedude24 @ 09/20/11 11:03 PM
Ronnie and 2k better have a damn good solution for this online legend things.
it's absolutely ******** for them to waste so much time and energy on the legends when we can't use them online.
i'm both an offline and online user, but once i unlock the legends no way in hell i will want to play against the computers again using them.
it's absolutely ******** for them to waste so much time and energy on the legends when we can't use them online.
i'm both an offline and online user, but once i unlock the legends no way in hell i will want to play against the computers again using them.
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# 178
rjmdeuce79 @ 09/21/11 10:43 AM
I'm thinking they might be able to be used in an online association? If we're unable to play with them,its not a deal breaker...to some it is....not judging anyone, just saying.
deucealmighty23....hit me up on xbl
deucealmighty23....hit me up on xbl
Thanks for the heads up about this! I upgraded to 2k11 primarily because of the new Legend teams & because of Jordan. In ranked team up games we got to at least play with some of the Legend teams online in 2k11. I thought for sure with all the time and effort 2k put into all of the Legend teams for 2k12 that for sure they would let us use them online this year even more. What a huge disappointment! The game looks great with all the improvements to the overall gameplay, but it looks like they have dropped the ball on the online play again. I'm gonna cancel my pre-order of the game & wait till next year. 
# 180
SdotThaDon @ 09/23/11 05:04 PM
Yeah seems like avoiding the question until release is the strategy here. We have to remember that although 2K is not EA, they are still a business. Keeping hush on this until release to avoid killing any potential customers.....This could have easily been addressed/explained via Ronnie2K's twitter posts. I haven't asked him directly on twitter yet, because he's giving the automated "wait and see response". Maybe we should all go to twitter and ask him so that it puts on pressure to answer or at least airs out the issue to other fans who may have not heard it yet.
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