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Let us all congratulate Leftos as he has officially taken a position at 2K Sports on the NBA 2K development team. As most of you are aware, he is well known for his work at NLSC. Creating all sorts of different mods for the NBA 2K series over there and also offering a helping hand over here. He will truly be a huge addition to the team.

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# 41 Ward13 @ 04/18/13 03:21 PM
It's over! with Leftos working directly on the code of the game how could 2k go wrong??? lol Great move on their part and congrats to you Leftos... Stay on their a**es my man don't let them sell us another sh*tty game ever again... you have the power now! lol
 
# 42 nip83 @ 04/18/13 03:57 PM
C.E.I.D. represent brother!!! I feel a little jealous but proud.Congrats and i wish for a quick adaptation to the new lifestyle.Now i know 2k14 is gonna be a delight.

P.S. Bust their *** to not abandon the PC platform.
 
# 43 Tomba @ 04/18/13 04:54 PM
Maybe Ill catch some flack for this but is anyone not seeing the bad side to this. leftos makes tools for the community so that the community can then edit themselves...

Most of Leftos work has been in tool making etc without those tools now for 2K14 the community is left to HOPE that the game doesn't need a tool anymore?

Seems kinda strange that 2k now pursued a key element a vital part of the modding community to be on their team after last years community rosters being HEAVILY monitored on 2Kshare for modwork...
 
# 44 nip83 @ 04/18/13 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Tomba
Maybe Ill catch some flack for this but is anyone not seeing the bad side to this. leftos makes tools for the community so that the community can then edit themselves...

Most of Leftos work has been in tool making etc without those tools now for 2K14 the community is left to HOPE that the game doesn't need a tool anymore?

Seems kinda strange that 2k now pursued a key element a vital part of the modding community to be on their team after last years community rosters being HEAVILY monitored on 2Kshare for modwork...
We've been asking too long now for 2k to hire modders and roster-makers from the community.E.g. if you get hired by 2k you wouldn't release sliders and rosters but we would have a solid experienced roster -maker to influence default rosters ,so default roster would be better -more accurate.
 
# 45 Taer @ 04/18/13 05:15 PM
Congrats Leftos.

I know you will not forget your roots - just remember that the majority of the 2k gamers will now see you as one of the devs and some will be quick to blame.

May everything continue to work out great for you.
 
# 46 seanbarkley @ 04/18/13 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Tomba
Maybe Ill catch some flack for this but is anyone not seeing the bad side to this. leftos makes tools for the community so that the community can then edit themselves...

Most of Leftos work has been in tool making etc without those tools now for 2K14 the community is left to HOPE that the game doesn't need a tool anymore?

Seems kinda strange that 2k now pursued a key element a vital part of the modding community to be on their team after last years community rosters being HEAVILY monitored on 2Kshare for modwork...
Sup my dude!well I see it from a different perspective: with him in maybe he can explain them how stupid it is to add those limitations (those which doensn't interfere with license rights) and how important it is for the community being able to edit some things they don't allow now...

I guess we'll have to wait til october to find it out
 
# 47 Leftos @ 04/18/13 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Tomba
Maybe Ill catch some flack for this but is anyone not seeing the bad side to this. leftos makes tools for the community so that the community can then edit themselves...

Most of Leftos work has been in tool making etc without those tools now for 2K14 the community is left to HOPE that the game doesn't need a tool anymore?

Seems kinda strange that 2k now pursued a key element a vital part of the modding community to be on their team after last years community rosters being HEAVILY monitored on 2Kshare for modwork...
1) Vlad's still around.
2) I understand where you're coming from, because Roster Editor wasn't the only tool I was developing. However, you have to consider that when someone like me has the chance to directly work on the game so many people love, instead of trying to work-around the fact that he has no access to the source code and improving the game on the outside, I have the potential to offer you so much more than a Roster Editor.

Plus, I made sure my legacy is still around. My work is open-source. It's on GitHub. Anyone with programming experience can pick my projects up and continue them, update them, release new versions.

Trust me, this is not part of a bigger scheme to kill off the modding scene. There were a lot of ways they could've stopped modding (such as hire someone more experienced and get them to fully encrypt the savegames).

Same way you can go on thinking about it, what if I had never showed up? You'd have done with roster editing via the game, waited for REDitor. What happens when Vlad, now that he's wrapping up University, needs to find a good job that pays, and probably doesn't have the same time to put into tools? What was going on the community before Leftos? Before Vlad?

Modding has been around before I was even born. And I was born in 89. It won't die off because a modder has been hired. It will keep on living. It will evolve, like it has always done. Sometimes acknowledged, sometimes not. New programmers will show up, new artists will show up, just like I showed up 2 years ago with my tools.

But without people passionately working on the game, there would be no game to mod. And if you enjoy the work I've done outside of the game, think how much good I can do you once I'm in the development team.

So with that, the downside, if any, will be temporary. And I'll make sure that my getting hired by 2K has one hell of an upside for the whole community. They're not hiring a random guy that was just having fun with the game. They're hiring a guy that was nurtured in the community, that grew up in it, that was running the NLSC with the rest of the staff for a year. They're hiring a guy that knows what the community wants, what the community has been asking for. They're hiring a guy that will keep in touch with the community. They're hiring a guy that has an agenda, to make the game better through all the ways the most hardcore of NBA 2K fans have been asking for.

I can't promise I'll make NBA 2K all that you've been asking for.

I can only promise I'll do one hell of a job trying.
 
# 48 Leftos @ 04/18/13 05:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Taer
Congrats Leftos.

I know you will not forget your roots - just remember that the majority of the 2k gamers will now see you as one of the devs and some will be quick to blame.

May everything continue to work out great for you.
I know. Soon I'll be grouped together with those "lazy 2K developers that won't fix a damn thing and keep making the game worse, we need 2K11 v2 and we need it NAO", etc. I'll get flak for being a 2K shill. I've been part of the community. I've been running one. I've done my fair share of complaining. Hell, I didn't even give 2K the benefit of the doubt during the 2K13 preview season. So I know I'll be on the receiving end of endless amount of criticism. Nobody will ever be truly happy.

And you know what? Neither will I. Just like everyone at the 2K Sports studio, I will never be satisfied. I will always want to do more, to do things better.

But what do I prefer? Complaining to the developers from the safety and comfort of my couch, or being one and doing the best I can to make NBA 2K the best game it can be?

It would be much easier for me to do something else, keep working on my tools, be friends with everybody, complain at those 2K people that will never satisfy us. But I decided to take the hard path of actually being one of them, and making OUR entertainment, MY living.

So please, join me in that. And be kind, and supportive, just like you've always been. I'll never hide from feedback, as long as it's constructive. So give it your best shot, and I'll give it mine.
 
# 49 24 @ 04/18/13 05:39 PM
Congratulations Leftos! All your hard work has truly paid off. Best of Luck over at 2K!
 
# 50 Tomba @ 04/18/13 05:54 PM
Leftos I Congrats on the job
 
# 51 vtcrb @ 04/18/13 06:05 PM
Congrats Leftos, very few people get to work their DREAM JOB. So enjoy it my friend, you have Earned it.

Now since you re on the 2k Team that can lead to other games as well. Can you PLEASE Voice for Support for 2k to BRING BACK a College Basketball Game!!!!!!!!! I REALLY think the support would be there for a College Game, it has been OVER 5 years and CH2k8 is still been played ALONG with Rosters STILL being updated. If they could bring a College oops game to go ALONG with a NBA Game, Basketball Options would be UNLIMITED for Basketball Gaming.
 
# 52 Tomba @ 04/18/13 06:07 PM
2K College Basketball with the animations from nba 2k14 would be great
 
# 53 TheBadazz @ 04/18/13 06:08 PM
Congrads. Now do your thing!
 
# 54 turty11 @ 04/18/13 06:08 PM
i would drool if we got another college game.
 
# 55 turty11 @ 04/18/13 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by JZ2
Now how about hiring a bunch of guys from OS or other places to work on rosters please.
or reveal the identity of "the insider"
 
# 56 LD2k @ 04/18/13 06:38 PM
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Originally Posted by turty11
or reveal the identity of "the insider"
 
# 57 vtcrb @ 04/18/13 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by LD2k

LD2k can you EXPRESS to 2k the NEED to bring BACK a College Basketball Game? I could care LESS about who the Insider is.
 
# 58 Tomba @ 04/18/13 06:46 PM
the 2k insider is just that an 2k employee aka 2k insider. nba 2k14's already done anyways hopefully leftos input will benefit next gen basketball but by that time easports will have the last laugh
 
# 59 smithdynasty @ 04/18/13 09:12 PM
LEFTOS... BRING BACK COLLEGE HOOPS
 
# 60 Melbournelad @ 04/18/13 10:03 PM
Congratulations Leftos! Is 2k bringing you onboard as a developer for 2k14, or 2k15 since it is already April?

Anyway regardless of which title it is, can you please stress to them the importance of things the community feel is needed such as

-Dynamic association, eg one association Andre Drummond might become an perennial all star star player, 85 overall (If they are still using the overall system), and another association he's progression is stunted and he ends up nothing more than a backup center. This would be a massive addition and greatly improve association.
-Free agency logic, this one is pretty obvious, it is atrocious right now. Contracts should be handed out on the basis of performance or obvious potential.
-Trade logic, also need a complete overhaul.
-Decent generated draft classes even if they don't have the rights to the real players, look at guys like CWSapp who have made outstanding classes.
-Smaller things such as the issue of 2k13 CPU constantly firing and hiring coaches, add some more options in association such as managing finances, the possibility of a team being relocated etc

These suggestions along with the obvious ones of redoing the roster logic and playbooks, coaching profiles etc would GREATLY improve 2k
 


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