NBA 2K13 Roster Update Arrives in the Morning

[Eaglerock562]

Anyway with the knowledge to make a video game, run with this idea...

I've had this idea for quite sometime now and after sharing it with a few members on here I was encouraged to write and post a blog about it in the hopes that perhaps someone in the gaming world would stumble upon it and run with it. With the disappointment of NBA Elite 11 and the cancellation of NBA Live 13, the feedback thrown at EA Sports seemed to range from questionable to smart move. Instead of putting out a very poor game with the expectations that people would've had (and those expectations would've been high) I guess EA decided that the future was more important then the present and why not get a head start. Well I thought that with Live 13 being cancelled that 2K would've taken the opportunity to slam the door shut in the basketball gaming world by unleashing 2K13 with close to perfection as you could get, but right out of the box you had people screaming at glitches, bugs, certain options for users taken away, rosters (they were accurate up to August 3rd for those who didn't read the disclaimer when the game starts). Now don't get me wrong, I think that 2K13 is a very very good game, it's only a week old so those who hit the panic button already need to understand that the game you picked up October 2nd and whined about is the same game that by December 25th you're going to be raving about. It seems that the upgrades or changes made in 2K13 were focused much more on the MyPlayer modes then Association mode. Now you have MyCareer along with MyTeam. I never quite understood the fascination behind MyPlayer other then it being Association mode where you just created yourself or a player that you have full control over (Create-A-Legend to me is MyPlayer just with the ability to select a current NBA player instead of a created player) and after creating your MyPlayer you are thrown into really the Association mode world. You can play more then one season and players are changing teams, retiring, new players coming in from drafts and so forth. Well the hardcore offline/online Association mode people would've liked to have seen a little more attention and focus put towards that mode I would think and that is where this idea for EA comes in...

If 2K is going to push MyPlayer and that be their number one mode in the game to sell then I think EA should turn their attention at attracting the next group after MyPlayer people and that is Association mode people. First off all get rid of the Elite and Live title for the game, bury it and start from the ground up. Your sole focus is to build a game that is devoted and focuses on Association mode offline and online. You would have Association mode hardcore fans of both online/offline running to the stores to get your game, but how to grab their attention? Here is how...

1) General Manager/Owner - you give the user FULL control of running a team (or 30 teams) if they choose. Implement the new CBA and allow the user to be able to EDIT anything that a General Manager/Owner would do realistically.

2) Rosters - you provide the most accurate roster out of the box and within a week of release you provide an update for users that include any players not included in the roster that came with the game out of the box. Players that are retired, playing overseas you remove them (or hide them) giving you room to add in all the players that need to be included. Every two weeks following you have a mandatory update for the rosters, BUT you make it so users do not have to re-start their Association offline and online.

3) Coaching staffs - again you give the user EDIT control of everything from Head Coach, to assistant coaches, to trainers to scouts. Also create a coaches free agent pool with coaches not currently coaching but have also not retired (Jerry Sloan, Stan Van Gundy, Mike Dunleavy, Nate McMillan) as well an assistant coaches pool (Patrick Ewing, Bill Cartwright) who are not currently coaching as well. Give the user the option to promote assistant coaches in the situations that call for Head coaches job. Coaching staffs should include the Head Coach, his top 3 assistants, the head athletic trainer and 2 NBA scouts.

4) NBA D-League - probably the most important feature and one that 2K I would hope took out of 2K13 so they have a year long to work the kinks out and re-introduce it in 2K14, but the NBA D-League needs to be in Association modes. It adds to the realism off the NBA and although player movement in the D-League day-to-day is so busy you need to still provide the ACTUAL D-League teams and players and coaches for the user. You can also use the two week roster update window to manage the D-League movement for the most part.

In other words you start from the ground up and you create a game dedicated and devoted for the Association online/offline users. The gameplay and presentation will have high expectations and you don't let them down when they put the game in because you made those two areas a priority as well. So you throw the name NBA Elite away and you bury the name NBA Live and you squeeze through that crack in the door that 2K left open instead of slamming and you introduce

EA Sports - NBA: The Association '14

[Norris_Cole]

Pathetic. When is this lazy 2k insider gonna be fired? And what pisses me more is that 2k was joking about his identity and about him on the developer insight videos, like if it was funny or something...

2k should be ashamed

[CUTigers2324]

Quote: Originally Posted by Norris_Cole

Pathetic. When is this lazy 2k insider gonna be fired? And what pisses me more is that 2k was joking about his identity and about him on the developer insight videos, like if it was funny or something... 2k should be ashamed

That's a good word for it...shameful. It is completely shameful that they'd release the roster with that trade botched. It's one thing to not add Shved, Teletovic, or Singler, who haven't even played in an official NBA game yet. That'll be fixed later, and I understand that. But good God - Daequan Cook and Kevin Martin are NOT on the same team. We essentially have a fantasy roster now. If you needed to wait and see who was going to get released after the trade, or what the rotations were going to look like, then WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE WEEK TO RELEASE THE UPDATE!!! I don't think anyone was clamoring so loudly for Harden to be on the Rockets at all costs that a blatantly inaccurate roster like this should have been released.

[vtcrb]

Quote: Originally Posted by cthurt

2k shouldve waited for the NBA rosters to be finalized because Houston for example have to many players still on the team that havent been cut yet so the Harden trade cant fully be made since the game only has 15 slots but in real life they have a 19 man roster as of now. Why put out a poor update if the main trade isnt even correct lol

They have cut Brockman, Johnson, Livingston and Forbes. They did that Last Night BEFORE the Update came out. So they could have Easily made the Rockets correct.

[supaswagga22]

Is the harden trade the only change from the last update? 2k is rather lazy with this. We're still missing players.

[cthurt]

Quote: Originally Posted by vtcrb

They have cut Brockman, Johnson, Livingston and Forbes. They did that Last Night BEFORE the Update came out. So they could have Easily made the Rockets correct.

I stand corrected lol welp no excuse 2k smh

[Goffs]

If its name and shame of 2k insider we're going for then contact Owen Good from kotaku about this. What better way to get unwanted attention than from a big gaming site like that. Maybe then 2k insider will finally get it!

[coolcras7]

Quote: Originally Posted by vtcrb

They have cut Brockman, Johnson, Livingston and Forbes. They did that Last Night BEFORE the Update came out. So they could have Easily made the Rockets correct.

The update was was not created late last night so any thing done after work hours would not be included.