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NBA 2K15's MyCAREER Has a Rough Start, Shows Promise

02:49 PM - October 9, 2014 by RaychelSnr

While trying to play NBA 2K15 over the past two days, I've seen that error message more than I've seen my created point guard on the court.

I've shot about 30 different face scans, not because of a poorly-lit apartment, or because of any perfectionist compulsions, but because NBA 2K15 has a terrible habit of deleting your My Player profile if a store transaction fails or the game's servers go down.

And since Tuesday, Visual Concepts' network -- despite having the company's "top engineers" working on it -- has been down more than it's been up.

You won't lose any of your player's upgrades or his career progress when you encounter those errors, but you will have to re-enter all of his information again, including his face scan.

Aside from being repeatedly bugged to "fill the window with your face," or "check your internet connection and try again," here is what stands out from playing My Career in NBA 2K15...

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# 21 juslovemusic @ 10/10/14 08:35 AM

Btw, to create an offline save, just disconnect from the internet before you start the game and press "Y" (or whatever the equivalent is on your controller) to access the various MC saves and start a new one. It will say "no vc (the symbol for it anyway)" and tell you when you confirm that you will have skill points instead, can't get in the MP store (which I could never get to open anyway) and that you wont be able to take that player online.

# 22 Retropyro @ 10/10/14 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by juslovemusic


	Btw, to create an offline save, just disconnect from the internet before you start the game and press "Y" (or whatever the equivalent is on your controller) to access the various MC saves and start a new one. It will say "no vc (the symbol for it anyway)" and tell you when you confirm that you will have skill points instead, can't get in the MP store (which I could never get to open anyway) and that you wont be able to take that player online.

I did all this last year, but it takes away from the game because you have no access to the MP store. So when your player unlocks a shoe contract it's meaningless. Small things, but it takes away from the game. I just wish they made an offline version that gave you everything it's online brother has. I don't understand why they can not (or more likely, refuse) to make that happen.

# 23 juslovemusic @ 10/10/14 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Retropyro


	I did all this last year, but it takes away from the game because you have no access to the MP store. So when your player unlocks a shoe contract it's meaningless. Small things, but it takes away from the game. I just wish they made an offline version that gave you everything it's online brother has. I don't understand why they can not (or more likely, refuse) to make that happen.

Agreed. It's sad that we have to circumvent the game the way they intended in order to really enjoy it. I wonder if there is still the "on court coach" badge. It would let you call plays which if you aren't a PG means you can force your team into the new freelance offenses which would hopefully improve gameplay a ton when combined w/ sliders.

# 24 EbonyOverlord @ 10/10/14 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by eaterofworlds888


	You SHOULD NOT have to connect to the internet to play this mode anyway. It's ridiculous.

Agreed, Im like fool, you going to help pay my internet bill? I can understand my park, multiplayer online, but my career online is stupid that mode is for "me" when I DONT want to be online competitive. They call themselves fighting "Pirates" by linking the store to be online so you cant access gear, out of all things they worried about if Pirates can look good balling? And chances are they [pirates] going to find a crack around it anyway.

Its the stupid DRM, and will suffer with complaints, the same way other late DRMs did, Diablo 3, SimCity just to name a few. When they aint never going to stop it. I call it "Greed" when you make 1+mil [legit buyers] our gamplay experience bad trying to prevent 1-2 thousand pirates?

# 25 KSmiiity @ 10/10/14 11:31 AM

For me, MyCarreer is working perfectly in the morning, but it kicks me out of online in the afternoon.

# 26 RipCityAndy @ 10/10/14 12:48 PM

Another negative. Some of the animated cut scenes with other NBA players are flat-out terrible. A fiend of mine walked in while I was talking to Kendall Marshall and he told me "it looks so bad... it's like something from an old N64 cut scene." I couldn't argue... they are bad. The facial animations are horrible. The voice acting is atrocious. I'm used to getting the "is that a real game?" reaction while playing 2k. This was the first time I got a legitimate poor response from a passer by. It's just bad.

# 27 stillatin @ 10/10/14 03:35 PM

are you guys kidding? the main reason why they made it online was to get rid of the cheaters who ended up with 1,000,000 vc in the past. The same cheaters that people were bitching to 2k about getting rid of because they maxed out all of their stats for free.

# 28 EbonyOverlord @ 10/10/14 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by stillatin


	are you guys kidding? the main reason why they made it online was to get rid of the cheaters who ended up with 1,000,000 vc in the past. The same cheaters that people were bitching to 2k about getting rid of because they maxed out all of their stats for free.

are you kidding me? What does linking my player/career, whatever, to being online having to do with VC, as a matter of fact if it wasnt linked to online, cheating wouldnt matter anyway(same as last year). My park, My Team, all that I understand, but MyCareer is a story mode (solo/singleplayer) therefore what does me having to be online matter anyway, and furthermore to access simple (MINIMUM gear might I add) to my player. Same shoes as last year(2K14).

People complaining about server problem hell no wonder, to many game modes require you to be online. In the end its nothing but a "money grab"/GREED like I said, in order to dress your player in MyCareer to use VC

# 29 tarzan_is_real @ 10/11/14 08:20 PM

Your comments about the AI teammates and opponents are spot on!! I'm tempted to just sell this game back cause its so frustrating trying to play 1 on 5 every game!! Yes I'm an undrafted rookie playing for the T'Wolves, but to see guys like Rubio jacking up shots, when he can't shoot, or seeing Pekovic trying to do turn around fadeaways, are mind numbingly upsetting. Also, why does my team continually miss easy layups, but the CPU can make acrobatic shots over 2 defenders?!?!
2ksports needs to fix MyCareer by stop blaming us, the user, for AI teammates who make dumb choices offensively and putting the team in double digit deficits, then giving us lower grades cause we can't cut into the opponents lead

# 30 TheTOShow @ 10/12/14 01:04 AM

The bad teammate AI + superstar opponents thing is definitely a huge problem. I am a PG on the Pelicans, and Eric Gordon gets his shot blocked about six or seven times per game. I will dish to him for an open three, only to watch him drive it to the free throw line and then slowly go up for an awkward jumper with that chest-high release point of his, and he gets blocked by any number of opposing players.

Tyreke Evans does about the same, but he at least tries to drive it to the hoop more, and when he does shoot, his release point is normal enough to get the shot off and give The Brow a shot at a rebound.

Anthony Davis is the only halfway useful teammate for me, but even he ends up going like 10-for-30 on a good night because he cant make simple open layups or put-backs, and insists on shooting like nine fadeaway jumpers per game.

Also, aside from a handful of times when the computer defender lunges for an interception on a pick-and-roll pass but misses, allowing Davis a wide-open standing dunk, my 6'2, 65 OVR, 42 dunk rating PG is the only guy to actually throw down a dunk on this team. I have played about 20 games, 12 min quarters. The computer is throwing down dunks all over the place against me. Friggin Mo Harkless looks like Doctor J in transition against me, but I cant get Tyreke, Gordon, Davis, Holiday etc to even attempt a single dunk.

# 31 prolifik @ 10/12/14 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Semipro91


	Incompetent teammates NBA 2K15's teammate AI still struggles to support users who want to play as a pass-first guard or run set plays instead of freelancing. On offense, your teammates will often hold onto the ball, drive into traffic, or pass right back to you instead of taking wide open shots. The few field goals they do attempt usually end up being bricks, regardless of how open or how close to the rim they are. Defensively, your big men do not defend the paint well, allowing too many backdoor cuts and easy entry passes. Despite having John Henson and Larry Sanders in the front-court, my created 5'11" 155 lb. point guard was the only player on my Milwaukee Bucks team who was boxing out, diving after loose balls, jumping to grab rebounds, and trying to swat interior shots." I disagree with this part. I am a pass first PG, I'm averaging 7 assists off the bench. I don't call plays either, I just play free lance. If you go to the top of the three point line and wait 4-5 seconds you will see your teammates move around and make cuts. Calling screens and driving and dishing has never been more fluid with the way teammates are cutting.

I agree with semipro but from a different perspective. My guy is a center and my team is always running plays. Turn on playvision (or whatever it's called) to Full. I feel like this is the only way to play to learn the sets, otherwise you just be running around like a chicken with its head cut off. When you set a pick outside of the flow of the offense, the play breaks into a pick n roll/fade/slip play (if pick is on the ball), or a cut to the basket or perimeter (if pick is set off the ball). I think it's a smart little addition for people who want to play big and run through sets... then when plays get broken we can get down to basics with a pick n roll.

# 32 demencia_total @ 10/12/14 01:33 PM

I really don't know how people played this mode in years past anyways, the gameplay was absolutely atrocious unless you played as a PG and even then it still lacked the AI fluidity of the other modes. That said, 2k has made a huge mistake thinking that having most of their game online would actually work. There are countless examples to this day of how almost every game that is always online has completely or partly failed and I can't think of a single success story. Its like every developer out there seems to ignore this fact and just go "I KNOW WE CAN DO IT GUYS, LETS GET OUR TOP ENGINEERS ON THIS!" and then when disaster strikes they act genuinely surprised. If this is management decision to prevent cheaters and bank on extra money by getting simple minded people to buy VC, then they also failed because there will STILL be cheaters and since the servers are always down people are not able to buy VC as much as 2k would like them to anyways.

Note to selves: ONLINE INFRASTRUCTURE ISN'T THERE YET NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE CLAIMS. I know some people will say that there's plenty of functioning MMO's out there, but if you actually look at all the issues (like the server limits and waiting times just to name one) that these carry even on the most successful ones, you'll realize it just doesn't work unless you have a fanbase that's extremely patient and addicted to the source material. With sports games? Most people will move on to something else or just wait for next year hoping that they don't repeat the same mistakes. Just be smart enough to learn from your mistakes, change it, and move on. Doesn't take a genius to see all this.

# 33 leoschmitd @ 10/14/14 07:38 PM

I had that trouble in the first image on your post, any idea how to fix it? Because I don't wanna loose my 83 PG D:

# 34 Pain2000 @ 10/21/14 11:40 PM

Made a player started MyCareer and dont see MyPark . Also to put up his attributes its skill points ....whats going on here

# 35 DHMN69 @ 10/22/14 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Pain2000


	Made a player started MyCareer and dont see MyPark . Also to put up his attributes its skill points ....whats going on here

If you're in skill points.. your player is in 'offline' mode... and I don't believe you can get back into online mode with THAT player now?

# 36 DHMN69 @ 10/22/14 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by NickYoungGoat


	What about the my coach not making no subs and forcing starters to play every minutes, how about fixing major problems first smh

The only starter playing huge minutes in MY career is myself.. Pekovic will play 38 minutes some games.. I actually WANT some of my starters out there longer.. Rubio averages about 27 minutes since I joined the team.. with Williams and LaVine getting time at the point also.. in 2k14 "MY" player always played huge minutes and dragged at the end.. now I haven't seen a way to boost yourself over an 80 stamina rating so it's weird to play so much

# 37 ggsimmonds @ 10/22/14 12:54 AM

"Rough Start, Shows Promise"

But..it is not a new feature.

# 38 kadzier @ 10/22/14 08:16 AM

You know what's still an issue that's been bothering me for years? how the announcers (and the game itself) judges you as if you're supposed to be a star right off the bat. My SG playing 10 minutes per game off the bench scored his career high with 8 points, but the announcers were like "he really hasn't been performing to his standards this game" and even in after game summary screen it says my performance was "poor." The game should definitely take into account your actual status here.

# 39 tarheel4lyfe851 @ 10/22/14 02:17 PM

My park is really dumb. The teammate grade concept is a nice idea in order to get selfish players to try and play the game the right way, but the selfishness and park heroes still exist and are very prevalent which ruins the game for people who don't want to spend VC to make their player amazing and prefer to earn everything and enjoy everything the mode has to offer. A 65 ovr who's just starting mycareer should have just as much fun at the park as an 89 ovr

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# 40 ballzdeep @ 11/09/14 12:54 PM

This game was horrible. Couldn't take it after 3 days. They made the graphics look alright but the player movements seem like some n64 ****. Very unresponsive. I'm sorry but if my guy makes it to the nba he is not an outright plug then. Wouldn't have been signed by a team if you can't do something. Very frustrating game cause whenwver I box someone out they can fight through it in a split second yet I can't get an offensive rebound to save my life. You should see some of the **** plays I have watched. I push a guy completely under his hoop so no possible way for him to outjump me for a board as he would hit his head on the backboard. HELL NO though he some how put his hand through the backboard, the net and rim grabbed the ball, pulled said ball through own hoop and just carries on. I can have a guy boxed out on D and he goes over the back and takes it. Have messed around with sliders to fix this, does nothing and honestly I feel this should have been dealt with before release

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