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NBA 2K16 Features Play Now Online on Superstar Simulation Difficulty & Much More

12:04 PM - September 23, 2015 by Scvllp

2K has just released a new NBA 2K16 video, this one features NBA 2K16's Play Now Online mode, which gives gamers an online ranking system for Head to Head and Team Up games, and 10 new created leagues in which you can reach goals and new league seeds. Wins and losses count toward reaching goals and new league seeds, though rising through the ranks won't be easy.

10 different leagues (Freshman through Greatest of All-Time)
Wins and losses now count towards reaching goals to advance in leagues
Competition is based on your skill level with scouting reports on your opponent
Teams are broken out into 3 tiers, beat teams from higher tiers and receive extra league wins
As you advance in Play Now Online, you can unlock classic teams to play with

UPDATE: Also mentioned on Twitter by Scott O'Gallagher, Gameplay Producer for NBA 2K16, the difficulty will be set at Superstar Simulation and match making within your league and teams can change tiers based on real world team rankings.

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# 81 Sundown @ 09/23/15 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by VinsanityLives


	'Buy Wins' Great mode, ruined. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

I seriously was able to be excited about Play Now for all of an hour before the other shoe dropped. It just seemed too good to believe because the new mode made so much sense and didn't seem to feed the 2k VC machine in any significant way.

"We want wins to matter... so we can make it all not matter again."

"We want to give you tools... like scouting... and Buy Wins."

# 82 snocone @ 09/23/15 08:24 PM

Whatever, more tryhard scrubs to give me wins in higher levels

# 83 TeamHawkins @ 09/23/15 08:49 PM

Looks like a lot of cheesers and not so good players are about to get exposed online. Bums will now be bums. I love it!

# 84 MeloNYK7 @ 09/23/15 09:43 PM

I dont believe in having Classic teams in ranked matches. U telling me if i was use the Suns i have to play against the 96 bulls and 2003 Lakers every game just cause i'm good enuff to get a top tier? and buying wins? smh FIFA has a perfect system. u win u move up. u lose u get relegated just like in MyTeam. Nothing more nothing less. It works. Not all this classic teams and buying wins stuff

# 85 Lakers 24 7 @ 09/23/15 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MeloNYK7


	I dont believe in having Classic teams in ranked matches. U telling me if i was use the Suns i have to play against the 96 bulls and 2003 Lakers every game just cause i'm good enuff to get a top tier? and buying wins? smh FIFA has a perfect system. u win u move up. u lose u get relegated just like in MyTeam. Nothing more nothing less. It works. Not all this classic teams and buying wins stuff

Gotta appease the casuals. 2k was so much better when they weren't on top and had no choice but to dedicate their selves to the sim community. Now the game is just a bunch of fantasy and rucker park bs.

# 86 jadert @ 09/23/15 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Lakers 24/7


	Gotta appease the casuals. 2k was so much better when they weren't on top and had no choice but to dedicate their selves to the sim community. Now the game is just a bunch of fantasy and rucker park bs.

Well fortunately the other game looks pretty good this year, so that may be a viable option for you. That's the great thing about having two respectable games.

Me? I think I'll stick with 2K. Who cares what others do with their VC money. Having the option isn't lame, the people who would actually spend money to do this are.

# 87 Black Bruce Wayne @ 09/24/15 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by VinsanityLives


	'Buy Wins' Great mode, ruined. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

Where does it say you can buy wins?

# 88 Dr. Banner @ 09/24/15 12:54 AM

Great mode that will end up in the dumper thanks to the historically bad servers.

# 89 The 24th Letter @ 09/24/15 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Black Bruce Wayne


	Where does it say you can buy wins?

There's a screen shot from the video where "Buy Wins" is an option.

No further info than that...

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# 90 tetoleetd @ 09/24/15 01:40 AM

the fact that they are now saying its on superstar sim means it wasnt on superstar sim in the past, which most of us already knew but 2k tried to deny.

so there's that.

# 91 DIRK41NOWITZKI @ 09/24/15 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by V!n$an!+y


	It's because of his affiliation with Live

Nah I don't think so. 2K face scanned Lillard last year and he was on the cover of Live that year.

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# 92 spankdatazz22 @ 09/24/15 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Lakers 24/7


	Gotta appease the casuals. 2k was so much better when they weren't on top and had no choice but to dedicate their selves to the sim community. Now the game is just a bunch of fantasy and rucker park bs.

Gimme a break. This is the problem with the hardcore community - CLEARLY in the minoriity, with a small man's complex to boot. If it can't be all your way it's the highway. Again, the vast majority of NBA2K players are likely casuals - you expect 2K to completely ignore that constituency? At the end of the day, you should be able to beat a casual player in a straight up game. It's not enough they cater the game mostly to the minority's way of thinking; every "casual" (despite them being the majority) needs to be made to play the way the game a hardcore player would play. Despite the fact that casuals likely have more loyalty than the supposed hardcore gamers do, who proudly speak to having no brand loyalty whatsoever. At the end of the day you're letting a single concession - one that doesn't affect you all that negatively (imo) - outweigh your view of the game as a whole

# 93 Sundown @ 09/24/15 04:10 AM

So we got the #WINNING trailer.

This shall henceforth be known as the #BUYWINS trailer.

# 94 LO6IX @ 09/26/15 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by LO6IX


	Putting tiers in the game was such a clever way to make sure everyone won't be using the same teams. My only criticism is that you can choose your jersey before you look for a match. You're going to be wearing the same color as your opponent very often.

I've already seen a lot of complaints about this. Please do something to fix this.

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