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

04:00 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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# 401 DonkeyJote @ 08/20/15 03:08 AM

Bringing the Sonics back! I'll probably use the Kings.

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# 402 Epyc @ 08/20/15 03:13 AM

No offseason in MyLeague online is a huge disappointment. We had a nice community back in the day where 2k had the Online Association mode, so we all were hyped for MyLeague since it looked like it would be exactly the same mode as MyLeague offline..

Without offseason, this mode is just like Online Leagues in 2k15, just with CPU teams + more seasons with the same teams.

I Hope 2k will patch the offseason in the game!

# 403 SimBaller @ 08/20/15 03:19 AM

Hi folks,

In hindsight, I don't think I did a good job of eloquently explaining why MyLEAGUE Online is what it is, and how it came to be in 2K16.

About 5 years ago, I made a strong push to management to give me the resources to provide a fully featured online franchise mode, which later came to be known as The Association: Online. Ambitious, and by-and-large, it worked. Sure, there were some quirks or design decisions that people didn't like (e.g. the moving window of advancement). Once that project was complete, my team and I moved on to other areas of the game. Having watched Online Leagues in NBA 2K14 and NBA 2K15 falter (for lack of a better word), I went back to management very early this year and told them I would be taking over the online league experience once again. This wasn't up for debate. To be fair, the people at VC that worked on this mode the last two years did a very admirable job, they just didn't have the experienced resources needed to deliver the proper experience you guys were craving. Those guys were hungry this year to right the ship. I loved seeing it.

For NBA 2K16, we combined our resource pools, which gave us the opportunity for me to allocate some of my more specialized and experienced engineers on this project. One such engineer, Brad, spent the majority of his year coming up with a completely new server-based architecture that is the heart and soul of NBA 2K16's MyLEAGUE Online feature.

This brings me to my main point for writing this. I've seen a few mentions (and about 12 of the same post from ataman (oh snap!)) and assumptions of this being the same mode as last year with potentially x and y feature added. This really couldn't be further from the truth. This is a completely new experience built with an all-new backend driving it. Gosh knows it won't be 100% perfect (though we certainly hope it is), but you do have my word that we will give you 110% until it is. We'll work through anything that comes up. Heck, Leftos won't sleep until issues are resolved. Brad is the same way. You guys got the 'A' team supporting you at this point; these are some of the brightest guys in the industry.

I played last year's Online Leagues pretty heavily. MyLEAGUE Online isn't last year's leagues. It may not have the offseason you covet, but it does contain the features that make MyLEAGUE such a special experience. You will be able to (and I can't believe some of these weren't there last year, sorry):

Make Rotational adjustments
Implement Gameplans (and everything that comes with that)
Utilize custom playbooks
Adjust gameplay sliders (at the admin level)
Adjust MyLEAGUE-specific sliders like Trade Negotiation Difficulty (at the admin level)
Custom Roster support
Control everything as an admin (trade approval, force winners, force losers, reset games, etc. etc. etc.)

I see people mention things like, "did they fix the bug about being able to rejoin the league once you leave?" To that, I say no. No, we didn't because this an entirely new experience. That bug never existed in this experience. Unfortunately, time IS a factor when you release an annual title. It's not an excuse I use, because it is my problem, not yours. You want (and deserve) the universe. That being said, I'm tremendously proud of the people who managed to create an all-new online league foundation (that will serve us well as new features are added) while simultaneously making what I think is probably the biggest single year jump in our franchise in a long time.

Lastly, I truly appreciate the discussion taking place within this thread regarding MyLEAGUE Online. I'm not one to shy away from a solid discussion or get my feelings hurt because someone doesn't like the way something isn't done. While this is business, this is my passion. This is the same for Leftos, Dave Z, Brad, and everyone else that played a major part in these modes. We WANT to hear your thoughts on what we're adding (or not adding if the case may be).

At the end of the day, if it's not abundantly clear even after reading the "Little Things" section of my blog post...We've got your best interests at heart. Enjoy the mode(s) this year.

# 404 lakers24 @ 08/20/15 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wildcats302


	Yes, they said you could do this. You can relocate teams and realign the divisions before you start year 1. And Athens, GA? Why? lol maybe someone can help me with that one. There are two places in GA on the map though.

It's a college town since UGA is located there. Maybe it's supposed to be similar to other small no pro sport cities

Quote:

Originally Posted by UravenzownU


	Assuming cities dont have audio?

Actually it shouldn't be that difficult. The issue will probably be custom team names. They can get Harlan/Kellogg to record the 30 new cities names easy since they are the only options. Predetermined team nicknames are probably in as well, but custom nicknames probably aren't unless they had them read from a list of possible names similar to the names in the created player database.

# 405 Neto1978 @ 08/20/15 03:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rasco11


	Yeah, we'd also have to realign conferences too, which we can! I hope we can adjust league size too! The way you phrased your post it's a foregone conclusion we can't?!? This blind negativity is dangerous people (far beyond just video games). Hard to read and post to this stuff. Not my thing, I feel detached from this site, sadly.

Hi Rasco... My english is not very good. I�m from Brazil and sometimes is hard to me to understand everything that is said... I loved all the customisation but I don�t remember to read about the possibility to reduce the number of teams in MYLEAGUE... If we won�t be able to do that it will be desapointing... I really would like to recreate the NBA in the 70�s and in the 80�s... Sorry everybody about possible mistakes in my text... thanks to answer me

# 406 23 @ 08/20/15 03:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SimBaller


	Hi folks, In hindsight, I don't think I did a good job of eloquently explaining why MyLEAGUE Online is what it is, and how it came to be in 2K16. About 5 years ago, I made a strong push to management to give me the resources to provide a fully featured online franchise mode, which later came to be known as The Association: Online. Ambitious, and by-and-large, it worked. Sure, there were some quirks or design decisions that people didn't like (e.g. the moving window of advancement). Once that project was complete, my team and I moved on to other areas of the game. Having watched Online Leagues in NBA 2K14 and NBA 2K15 falter (for lack of a better word), I went back to management very early this year and told them I would be taking over the online league experience once again. This wasn't up for debate. To be fair, the people at VC that worked on this mode the last two years did a very admirable job, they just didn't have the experienced resources needed to deliver the proper experience you guys were craving. Those guys were hungry this year to right the ship. I loved seeing it. For NBA 2K16, we combined our resource pools, which gave us the opportunity for me to allocate some of my more specialized and experienced engineers on this project. One such engineer, Brad, spent the majority of his year coming up with a completely new server-based architecture that is the heart and soul of NBA 2K16's MyLEAGUE Online feature. This brings me to my main point for writing this. I've seen a few mentions (and about 12 of the same post from ataman (oh snap!)) and assumptions of this being the same mode as last year with potentially x and y feature added. This really couldn't be further from the truth. This is a completely new experience built with an all-new backend driving it. Gosh knows it won't be 100% perfect (though we certainly hope it is), but you do have my word that we will give you 110% until it is. We'll work through anything that comes up. Heck, Leftos won't sleep until issues are resolved. Brad is the same way. You guys got the 'A' team supporting you at this point; these are some of the brightest guys in the industry. I played last year's Online Leagues pretty heavily. MyLEAGUE Online isn't last year's leagues. It may not have the offseason you covet, but it does contain the features that make MyLEAGUE such a special experience. You will be able to (and I can't believe some of these weren't there last year, sorry): Make Rotational adjustments Implement Gameplans (and everything that comes with that) Utilize custom playbooks Adjust gameplay sliders (at the admin level) Adjust MyLEAGUE-specific sliders like Trade Negotiation Difficulty (at the admin level) Custom Roster support Control everything as an admin (trade approval, force winners, force losers, reset games, etc. etc. etc.) I see people mention things like, "did they fix the bug about being able to rejoin the league once you leave?" To that, I say no. No, we didn't because this an entirely new experience. That bug never existed in this experience. Unfortunately, time IS a factor when you release an annual title. It's not an excuse I use, because it is my problem, not yours. You want (and deserve) the universe. That being said, I'm tremendously proud of the people who managed to create an all-new online league foundation (that will serve us well as new features are added) while simultaneously making what I think is probably the biggest single year jump in our franchise in a long time. Lastly, I truly appreciate the discussion taking place within this thread regarding MyLEAGUE Online. I'm not one to shy away from a solid discussion or get my feelings hurt because someone doesn't like the way something isn't done. While this is business, this is my passion. This is the same for Leftos, Dave Z, Brad, and everyone else that played a major part in these modes. We WANT to hear your thoughts on what we're adding (or not adding if the case may be). At the end of the day, if it's not abundantly clear even after reading the "Little Things" section of my blog post...We've got your best interests at heart. Enjoy the mode(s) this year.

Hope you don't mind us making a seperate thread for this so the conversation won't be jumbled up so you guys can have a focused conversation about it?

# 407 Epyc @ 08/20/15 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SimBaller


	Hi folks, In hindsight, I don't think I did a good job of eloquently explaining why MyLEAGUE Online is what it is, and how it came to be in 2K16. About 5 years ago, I made a strong push to management to give me the resources to provide a fully featured online franchise mode, which later came to be known as The Association: Online. Ambitious, and by-and-large, it worked. Sure, there were some quirks or design decisions that people didn't like (e.g. the moving window of advancement). Once that project was complete, my team and I moved on to other areas of the game. Having watched Online Leagues in NBA 2K14 and NBA 2K15 falter (for lack of a better word), I went back to management very early this year and told them I would be taking over the online league experience once again. This wasn't up for debate. To be fair, the people at VC that worked on this mode the last two years did a very admirable job, they just didn't have the experienced resources needed to deliver the proper experience you guys were craving. Those guys were hungry this year to right the ship. I loved seeing it. For NBA 2K16, we combined our resource pools, which gave us the opportunity for me to allocate some of my more specialized and experienced engineers on this project. One such engineer, Brad, spent the majority of his year coming up with a completely new server-based architecture that is the heart and soul of NBA 2K16's MyLEAGUE Online feature. This brings me to my main point for writing this. I've seen a few mentions (and about 12 of the same post from ataman (oh snap!)) and assumptions of this being the same mode as last year with potentially x and y feature added. This really couldn't be further from the truth. This is a completely new experience built with an all-new backend driving it. Gosh knows it won't be 100% perfect (though we certainly hope it is), but you do have my word that we will give you 110% until it is. We'll work through anything that comes up. Heck, Leftos won't sleep until issues are resolved. Brad is the same way. You guys got the 'A' team supporting you at this point; these are some of the brightest guys in the industry. I played last year's Online Leagues pretty heavily. MyLEAGUE Online isn't last year's leagues. It may not have the offseason you covet, but it does contain the features that make MyLEAGUE such a special experience. You will be able to (and I can't believe some of these weren't there last year, sorry): Make Rotational adjustments Implement Gameplans (and everything that comes with that) Utilize custom playbooks Adjust gameplay sliders (at the admin level) Adjust MyLEAGUE-specific sliders like Trade Negotiation Difficulty (at the admin level) Custom Roster support Control everything as an admin (trade approval, force winners, force losers, reset games, etc. etc. etc.) I see people mention things like, "did they fix the bug about being able to rejoin the league once you leave?" To that, I say no. No, we didn't because this an entirely new experience. That bug never existed in this experience. Unfortunately, time IS a factor when you release an annual title. It's not an excuse I use, because it is my problem, not yours. You want (and deserve) the universe. That being said, I'm tremendously proud of the people who managed to create an all-new online league foundation (that will serve us well as new features are added) while simultaneously making what I think is probably the biggest single year jump in our franchise in a long time. Lastly, I truly appreciate the discussion taking place within this thread regarding MyLEAGUE Online. I'm not one to shy away from a solid discussion or get my feelings hurt because someone doesn't like the way something isn't done. While this is business, this is my passion. This is the same for Leftos, Dave Z, Brad, and everyone else that played a major part in these modes. We WANT to hear your thoughts on what we're adding (or not adding if the case may be). At the end of the day, if it's not abundantly clear even after reading the "Little Things" section of my blog post...We've got your best interests at heart. Enjoy the mode(s) this year.

I understand what you are saying and I really apreciate you and your Team for "reviving" this mode!

But you have to understand us, who thought this would be an Franchise mode just like MyLeague OFFLINE. Thats what I thought when I saw the title of the mode.

This is not the mode where you can build your Team over a couple of years and where your rookies can develop into superstars. Now you have to pick a contender in order to stay competitive against other Human players, because you have no chance to improve your Team in the offseason.

I hope you understand our point on MyLeague and why we are not that hyped but GLAD you brought us this mode back. I hope you will improve this mode over the years and don't remove it like in 2k13.

# 408 Smirkin Dirk @ 08/20/15 03:35 AM

Name a development team that is more open to ideas from the community and willing to communicate with its fans, as this 2k team.

I'll save you the trouble.

There is none.

# 409 23 @ 08/20/15 03:36 AM

You guys can go ahead and discuss that here

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...t-kickoff.html

# 410 Wildcats302 @ 08/20/15 03:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lakers24


	It's a college town since UGA is located there. Maybe it's supposed to be similar to other small no pro sport cities Actually it shouldn't be that difficult. The issue will probably be custom team names. They can get Harlan/Kellogg to record the 30 new cities names easy since they are the only options. Predetermined team nicknames are probably in as well, but custom nicknames probably aren't unless they had them read from a list of possible names similar to the names in the created player database.

Oh I get it is a college town since UGA is there...just a curious choice of all the college towns they could have chose as this is a basketball game as UGA is not some b-ball powerhouse

They did make the 1983 Final Four though so there's that lol.

I agree with you on recording the cities...I do not see that being an issue at all. The nicknames thing is an issue...I will probably try to strive for basic nicknames like Wildcats, Sharks, Bulldogs, etc, as I bet they have those recorded.

# 411 MontanaMan @ 08/20/15 03:42 AM

While everybody is having passionate debates, I really just want to know can we make a third alternate uniform for our created team lmao.

# 412 Rasco11 @ 08/20/15 03:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neto1978


	Hi Rasco... My english is not very good. I�m from Brazil and sometimes is hard to me to understand everything that is said... I loved all the customisation but I don�t remember to read about the possibility to reduce the number of teams in MYLEAGUE... If we won�t be able to do that it will be desapointing... I really would like to recreate the NBA in the 70�s and in the 80�s... Sorry everybody about possible mistakes in my text... thanks to answer me

I hear ya! I'd love to recreate that experience too! I sincerely appologize for misinterpreting (overreacting) to your post as I read it!

# 413 lakers24 @ 08/20/15 03:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MontanaMan


	While everybody is having passionate debates, I really just want to know can we make a third alternate uniform for our created team lmao.

I wouldn't bet on it in its first year, but maybe.

# 414 Wildcats302 @ 08/20/15 03:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StephBack3


	A few things I noticed. 1. Canada isn't in the map. You cant move a team to there. 2. LeBron James is a 94 overall? Wow. 3. The draft looks like a whole new presentation. No podium or guys collecting their caps. A few questions; 1. What did I miss on the stream? I was working. Couldn't catch it. 2. In MyGM he says it costs money to move the team. Does he mean money out of your actual finances in game. Or VC?

That's not true about Canada. You can go to Vancouver, Montreal, and obviously Toronto.

# 415 23 @ 08/20/15 03:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lakers24


	I wouldn't bet on it in its first year, but maybe.

Wasnt it mentioned that a third one could be made? I might be wrong but i thought i saw that somewhere

# 416 JoFri @ 08/20/15 04:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Da_Czar


	Not my area but in Myleage you don't have to relocate to rebrand. I gave my team new unis right from the jump. The creation even for non creative guys like myself was really easy and fun. I went in just to test it out and an hour later had some dope uni's well dope for a non artist anyway. The coolest thing was seeing my creation at the uniform select screen immediately available for use. Great job to the team who worked on this mode it is a lot of fun!

for the first time i want to be involved in UAT. i hate that in my current job. Lol

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# 417 Black Bruce Wayne @ 08/20/15 04:07 AM

What is so wild about Lebron being a 94? Should be lower? I dont think so. Anyhow, you can always edit it beforehand so thats not an issue.

The blog was great and I want to show my appreciation to the 2k team. Whatever 2k left out, thats ok because its not as if they are going to stop making basketball games anytime soon.

# 418 DonkeyJote @ 08/20/15 04:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Bruce Wayne


	What is so wild about Lebron being a 94? Should be lower? I dont think so. Anyhow, you can always edit it beforehand so thats not an issue. The blog was great and I want to show my appreciation to the 2k team. Whatever 2k left out, thats ok because its not as if they are going to stop making basketball games anytime soon.

I'd say higher. He's the best player of the last 15 years, one of the greatest of all time. Last year he was upper 90s

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# 419 lakers24 @ 08/20/15 04:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DonkeyJote


	I'd say higher. He's the best player of the last 15 years, one of the greatest of all time. Last year he was upper 90s Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

I wouldn't say all that, but either way who's to say this rating isn't from a couple of years into the mode and he's "declining."

# 420 NastyGT @ 08/20/15 04:36 AM

Wow, this sounds great, because I play mostly MY LEAGUE mode. But my only concern is awful foul detection. In 2K15 some judo/aikido moves are not penalized and sometimes only standing next to shooter is foul. For CPU team, of course.
Other than that everything is greatly customisable...

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