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NBA 2K16 Developer Blog - MyLEAGUE, MyLEAGUE Online, MyGM & More

03:00 PM - August 19, 2015 by Steve_OS

NBA 2K16 Senior Producer, Erick Boenisch, a.k.a. SimBaller, has just posted a new NBA 2K16 Developer Blog detailing MyLEAGUE, MyLEAGUE Online, MyGM and much more. Read all about it here and let us know your thoughts!

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# 201 sammy watkins @ 08/19/15 05:59 PM

Over the past few years 2K has actually gone backwards in terms of online leagues. Can't you guys see. There were essentially no online leagues at all in 2K14 on the next gen consoles and the mode has been non-existent the last 2 years. Previously, NBA 2K12 and NBA 2K13 had online leagues (granted there were bugs and issues with the leagues), but the basic features where there.

We are now reaching NBA 2K16 and still no offseason activities. This game's online franchise mode is FAR AND AWAY behind NBA 2K13 and that is 100% UNACCEPTABLE.

# 202 vannwolfhawk @ 08/19/15 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by HustlinOwl


	thats the thing how can you really know though considering they have yet to do it right?? If done exactly as offline, I will bet you more than what they have now with it not a true franchise

I'll go with that... Id assume 2k11 leagues were used more than any other seeing that was the best we had that I remember. Im sure those numbers last 4 years fell off immensely due to bare bones mode. I get it! :-)

# 203 ataman5 @ 08/19/15 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by scottyp180


	So would you rather no online franchise mode at all? I get what you are saying but considering the amount of stuff 2k has added it was probably just one of those things they didn't have enough time for or just wasn't on their list of priorities. I could see if 2K barely made changes and the online off season was left out but they did adied a ton to these modes. There is only so much that can be done in one year.

I guess after all these years i really would accept no online franchise. Yes then i can finally recognize i shouldn't buy the game and spent my whole time trying to make things right and get going, if you know what i mean, it's my time and dedication plus a lot of other guys time and dedication, too and well earned or not some kind of dollars or not still more or less they count. You know how much time we dedicated this year, i got into coding and built my own website (it's a plus for me right, 2k makes me creative sure!) yet it's a hustle that in the year of 2016 i shouldn't be dealing, that's the point of game consoles plug and play. How is that possible if the only mode i play is way behind of that concept and it's been like this not one but for years...

So i'm sorry but there are more wrongs then rights here and yes i would take no online franchise rather than this anytime.

# 204 Wildcats302 @ 08/19/15 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by UravenzownU


	Can we get a full list of cities we can relocate to?

I'm going to say:

Vancouver?
Seattle
Portland
Anchorage, Alaska
Honolulu, Hawaii
San Diego
San Francisco
LA
Oakland
Las Vegas
Denver
Salt Lake City
Phoenix
OKC
Dallas
San Antonio
Houston
Austin, Texas
Kansas City
St. Louis
Omaha, NE
Minneapolis
Milwakee
Chicago
Memphis
Nashville
New Orleans
Louisville
Jacksonville
Miami
Tampa
Orlando
Atlanta (also not sure why there are two places near ATL...cannot think of another city unless that means two teams can relocate there?)
Charlotte
Indianapolis
Cincy
CLeveland
Columbus
Richmond, VA?
Baltimore
DC
Montreal
Toronto
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Philly
Detroit
Boston
Different variations in NY.

I am just going off the map and basic geographical knowledge. Any I missed guys? I can't really tell what is going on near NYC as they all merge together without a zoom function.

# 205 ultralow36 @ 08/19/15 06:06 PM

Looks pretty good....no how about those online servers

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# 206 vannwolfhawk @ 08/19/15 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by jeremym480


	Get rid of those bland *** EA Clippers uniforms anyone? Think I'll go with something similar to one of these: Spoiler or

Those are pretty sick!

# 207 vannwolfhawk @ 08/19/15 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by swimfunk


	Want to play 5 years of a 37 yr old Kobe Bryant... Online My League is for you!!!

Good point! Lol

# 208 zello144 @ 08/19/15 06:10 PM

Can't wait

They weren't joking around last year when they said 2k16 was going to be good.
September 25th better come soon I need me some NBA 2k!!!!

# 209 Gilley @ 08/19/15 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildcats302


	I am just going off the map and basic geographical knowledge. Any I missed guys? I can't really tell what is going on near NYC as they all merge together without a zoom function.

That probably includes locations in New Jersey as well.

# 210 Number999 @ 08/19/15 06:11 PM

As someone who prefers offline to online... THANK YOU 2k. You aren't ignoring online, but to see a video game consistently year in and year out make efforts (even if they aren't perfect) showing they DO care about offline franchises is amazing and you've already earned my purchase. GAHHH this is awesome.

# 211 LADRAGONSS @ 08/19/15 06:12 PM

I want to be able to change max contract value.

# 212 ataman5 @ 08/19/15 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by amedawg00


	To my long battered and bruised Online Franchise heads, it sure looks like we spoke too soon about receiving the motherlode in 16. This myleague online mode is some Orwellian word play at its finest. Why give a mode the equivalent name of its fully featured offline version when it pales in comparison? The lack of an offseason alone renders this mode an online league; and far from an "online franchise" as described in the blog. Let's call a spade a spade and leave the misleading marketing wordplay of "myleague online" for the casuals and uninformed who can't discern between the fully featured offline version and the half baked online version. I do respect VC for delivering a mode that will work out of the box while implcitly alluding to the fact that the inclusion of the offseason aspects could glitch or break the mode like they did on last gen OA modes. I am also appreciative of the admin options and league customization options that were omitted up until the 3rd iteration of the series for next gen. With the hype meter fully dialed down after the reveal of this god forsaken mode in comparison to the offline version, it is imperative that the questions posed by Ataman be answered in order to calm the anxieties of an appreciative albeit dissapointed OA nation. If at the bare minimum, a dev can assure us that all of the myleague offline options for team coaching options and roster management are present in the mode, then the confirmed custom roster feature will be the bed rock of hardcore leagues on extending this mode to be a fully featured multi season OA; accounting for manual progressions, regressions, retirements, and draft classes, along with a work around FA system. Frankly, we were able to do this in 15 with custom rosters as workaround, so the admin options, game registration, stat tracking, a functional post season is what VC is essentially assuring the OA community in the is blog for 16. Leftos, Czar, Sim baller, we appreciate your efforts in beginning to throw more resources and attention to this long neglected mode. The community acknowledges that Rome wasn't built in a day but acknowledging basic roster management, coaching options, i.e playbook customization would go a long way in placating the anxieties of this hardcore community who has enjoyed the OL/OA mode dating back to the xbox/ps2 era.

Couldn't put it better than this Ame.

# 213 joosegoose @ 08/19/15 06:14 PM

Wow...I mean...just, wow. I alternated between head-nodding, fist-pumping, and a few actual cheers as I read through all of that.

So many great things here, but I'm largely at a loss for words. This is incredible, I will definitely be getting this now. Just when I was worried that sports games were slowly kicking franchise modes to the curb too...I feel so naive.

# 214 23 @ 08/19/15 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by sammy watkins


	Over the past few years 2K has actually gone backwards in terms of online leagues. Can't you guys see. There were essentially no online leagues at all in 2K14 on the next gen consoles and the mode has been non-existent the last 2 years. Previously, NBA 2K12 and NBA 2K13 had online leagues (granted there were bugs and issues with the leagues), but the basic features where there. We are now reaching NBA 2K16 and still no offseason activities. This game's online franchise mode is FAR AND AWAY behind NBA 2K13 and that is 100% UNACCEPTABLE.

# 215 Taer @ 08/19/15 06:15 PM

I recently asked for info released so that I can convince others to invest in 2k16 instead of waiting until next year or later.

You more than delivered, thank you. Your Developer Diary/Blog has a lot to present my family and friends with to convince them to buy the game.

I also think the diary/blog was one of the best written I've seen in years. Thank you for renewing my faith that such can still be written. Not just an hour ago, I lamented the lack of such elsewhere.

I can not wait to see which of these amazing systems and features made it into the MyCareer mode. MyLeague was fully covered, so I can at least drool over every detail released there.

One thought related to a fellow community member's recent posting:

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Originally Posted by strawberryshortcake


	Had a "team expansion" feature been implemented, you would be damn sure the Seattle Supersonics would be ADDED to the existing league leaving the Thunders intact exactly where they belong -- in OKC.

OKC will never "deserve" a team until the wrongs inflicted in Seattle are addressed. A stolen team does not "belong" in the possession of the thief regardless of that thief being a multi-billionaire friend of the ex-Commissioner or not.

# 216 lil_smitty31 @ 08/19/15 06:18 PM

Customize draft roster for the Hoops summit?

# 217 schnakenpopanz @ 08/19/15 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 23

funny you are not asking for bans again.

# 218 23 @ 08/19/15 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by schnakenpopanz


	funny you are not asking for bans again.

We don't ban off of sense of entitlement posts

Some guys in here completely ignored the entire blog which is fat and full of things to claim something is unacceptable?

Like I said earlier, some just want to complain period.

# 219 raiderphantom @ 08/19/15 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by sammy watkins


	There were previous 2K games that had an off-season and free agency. I mean, keeping all of that stuff out of a franchise mode defeats the purpose of playing in the same league for multiple seasons. Once again this is BASIC. We're not asking for things that are unconventional. Free agency, and NBA Draft are critical parts of the NBA and that has been removed from online leagues.... when 2K games from LAST GEN had those features.

Yeah but OA's were broken. They had to completely scrap that as they obviously couldn't get it working properly for 3 years straight. I'd rather have a barebones game that works as opposed to a mode filled with bugs and broken logic.

# 220 Gilley @ 08/19/15 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Taer


	OKC will never "deserve" a team until the wrongs inflicted in Seattle are addressed. A stolen team does not "belong" in the possession of the thief regardless of that thief being a multi-billionaire friend of the ex-Commissioner or not.

Yeah the Thunder would be getting moved back to Seattle as the SuperSonics either way for me. The way it should be. Expansion or no expansion.

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