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MyPark & Pro-Am: Where Your $60 Entry Fee Isn't Enough To Compete Online

07:34 PM - November 13, 2015 by Steve_OS

"Black Friday" circular ads are already surfacing on the Internet, so if you're planning on purchasing NBA 2K16 during the Holiday shopping season, and you're looking forward to taking your created character into multiplayer matches, know that whatever you spend for your copy of the game, it won't be enough to compete online -- at least, not right away.

NBA 2K16's Pro-Am and MyPark modes are built on competitively unbalanced and psychologically manipulative grind-to-win/pay-to-win models -- the kinds you'd expect to find in a free-to-play mobile app, not on a $60 Blu-ray disc. If you want to keep up with the majority of Pro-Am/Park players, who are presently rated in the mid-80s to high-90s, your avatar must choose between slowly earning or outright purchasing six figures of in-game currency just to raise your player's overall rating from a completely inept 55 up to at least the low-80s.

Read More - MyPark & Pro-Am: Where Your $60 Entry Fee Isn't Enough To Compete Online (Written by: Jayson Young)

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# 21 jfinger2013 @ 11/15/15 12:46 AM

I totally disagree with this my player is a 88ovr I pre order and got a few VC than grinded on Hall of Fame mode in my career to get my Dude to a 88ovr balanced small forward I am currently a level 1 all star in my park and have beating plenty of legends and 99ovr and don't really feel the need to make my Dude any higher other my Dude 3pts shot could be higher but I feel like if your a 70ovr and u know how to play good defense and can dunk or shoot well u can win on my park easily just gotta know how to play one of my friends is a legend with a 76ovr center and he is good I just gotta know how 2 play

# 22 KingTocco @ 11/15/15 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Funk Snuka


	I think you just suck Come play me. Bring "all your badges". Lol And i will shut u down with out a single badge ****s overrated. Its funny

I think you're about to get the ban hammer if you keep talking like that.

It's funny.

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# 23 Gosens6 @ 11/15/15 11:23 AM

Honestly, alot of us just simply don't have time to keep playing and playing and leveling up our my player. It's the sole reason I don't play my career, the park, pro am etc.

I 100% refuse to buy vc, and with a 7 month old child and a job that requires many hours a week, I just don't have time to play as much as alot of people with these 90+ rated players do.

I can see why they allow us to buy VC, for guys like me. But at the same time you get people who have all the free time in the world still buying vc. Just the nature of the beast

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# 24 Schijan @ 11/15/15 05:13 PM

I am talking about those things for quite a while now and I think this is a good article, although I don't like the Choose Your Badges and Pick Your Player Type proposals that much.

If I would be in charge, I would definitely make all players start at 75, so no one is forced to spend 50 bucks to compete right away. Then make players earn every other attribute upgrade, but make it faster and affordable.

Also remove the whole boost option fast. If you boost 6 stats, you pay 840 VC per game! This is crazy!

# 25 KingTocco @ 11/15/15 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by bo.jangles344


	An i the only one who enjoyed starting out as a 45 in 2k10 and being forced to grind your way up?

I actually really liked that...

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# 26 Schijan @ 11/15/15 05:39 PM

It's not even realistic anymore if you get picked in the first round being a 55. To me, it's just a big trick nowadays to get players to spend 50 bucks who want to play in the park competitively in the near-term.

But I don't mind the grind for badges and I think that players who want to spend some time to galvanize their characters definitely deserve some reward.

# 27 derlaid @ 11/15/15 06:05 PM

The real problem in MyPark isn't the VC-to-upgrade-your-character system, which isn't great, it's the people who have set all their stats to 99 regardless of their position. It's a lot easier to win when you don't have to worry about things like "contested shots" or "poor ball handling" getting in the way of you getting to the basket.

Also the 7'3'' PG I ran into last night. That was pretty cool.

# 28 TotesMaGotes @ 11/16/15 10:19 AM

This is truth. I have a mid-80's rated guy and I am always beat by the Low 90's rated boosters. If you're a 7'3 center you're more than likely going to rebound over my shorter guy even if I have the positioning and boxing the giant center out. it happens multiple times on the court per game, I have position and am boxing out, the ball hits the rim and the 7'3 center just either rebounds over my head or will magically shift through my player's body and miraculously be in front of my before my jump animation will go through. They're building a game towards who can spend the most money to get good or who can find what glitch will make me successful next.

# 29 iLLosophy @ 11/16/15 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by bo.jangles344


	An i the only one who enjoyed starting out as a 45 in 2k10 and being forced to grind your way up?

I enjoyed doing it the first time - actually played MyPlayer for real trying to win championships and stuff. However it was annoying to do to have to do it all over again the year after that. And the year after that. And the year after that. And the year after that.

And the year after that.

And the year after that.

# 30 OG_Almighty @ 11/16/15 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by bottledwaterfan25


	Preach. Sadly in 2015 with the current video game landscape we will no see this change. In fact, it will likely get even more ridiculous with micro-transactions and pay to play models. One thing we all have to keep on mind is that, at the end of the day, 2k's real job is to generate profit. Sure they also want to make the best basketball game, but profit is #1. Think about it: 2k makes x amount of millions of dollars just selling the game. Then they realize they can make even more millions of dollars off the same people who already put up $60, by adding all the micro transactions. I personally hate it, but I fully understand why we are seeing this game go down the path it's going down. The problem is, it's never enough for these companies. Every year since 2k started these micro transactions, each release has seen an increase in available items/categories that you can spend real money on. The question is, when is 2k going to cross the line to where us as customers become resentful? Some would argue that line has been crossed already.

Agreed. Pay-to-play is not going anywhere. It's far too lucrative and 2K doesn't cross the line when it comes to balance. Yes, you can buy your way to an 88 but we all know there's a huge difference between an 88 overall player and a 95 overall. It's not perfect but it works.

NBA Live 16's upgrade system is superior to 2K's. Let's face it, even though it's what we all wanted from 2K, NBA Live suffered financially from that model (along with other issues of course). 2K introduced a model that's here to stay. If I could make a suggestion to them, I would still allow pay-to-play but for it to only allow your player to reach the mid to high 70s instead of the mid-to-high 80s.

# 31 Sam I am @ 11/22/15 07:03 AM

Bravo!!! Finally somebody with the the guts to tell it like it is, now 2k how about focusing on how to teach people how to play the darn game instead of trying to hustle every dime & nickle out of ppl. How about putting the training camp mode back in. That way ppl can lear the basics of offense & defense, but the reason 2k took it out was because, IT DIDN"T MAKE ANY MONEY!!!!, My player, my team, bs as it is makes money & thats whats sad,

# 32 acetheredcomet @ 11/22/15 10:06 AM

I kind of wished that you could develop the attributes solely off of the off day training (where the performance added +2 to your stats or attribute blocks instead of being a pay to play good system)

There are some merits to this system which allows you to make another position and boost his atts to 88 overall instead of having to grind to get to 88.

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