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NBA 2K14: No Multi-Team Control in MyGM, Some Features Not Moving Over

06:27 PM - October 23, 2013 by RaychelSnr

NBA 2K14 on next-gen consoles.

As much good as we have heard today from the folks at 2K Sports, and there has been a lot of that, we just got word that there will not be any offline multi-team control options in MyGM which is replacing Association mode. There was some hinting it could come back in future editions, but for this year's title don't expect to be able to play with more than one team in offline MyGM mode.

Also Aaron is reporting that there are some features which are in current gen NBA 2K14 which won't be making it over, but no word on what those are from the folks at 2K.

UPDATE: Erick Boenish, AKA SimBaller had this to say...

For those curious about MyGM mode, know this. I only covered about 5% of what this mode is at the press event. This was a bigger media event, one where a large number of the attendees aren't exactly highly interested in the meat and potatoes of a mode like this. I simply provided an overview of what our philosophy was.

We'll be going into MUCH more detail (you know I will take care of you guys here) on what we've done in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

The takeaway you should have right now is MyGM is Association on steroids. Multi-user had to take a backseat for a minute while we rebuilt the entire foundation of how a franchise mode works. I assure you, this is all for the greater good. Leftos and I will make sure you're all happy at the end of the day.

SimBaller

P.S. For those who aren't into the concept of interacting with staff, players, etc., a Season mode (with variable season lengths) IS available so you can just focus on playing games and moving players around where you see fit.

What do you think of no multi-team control offline in 2K14 next-gen?

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# 61 MavsManiac4Life @ 10/23/13 09:20 PM

The only reason I'm mad and see this as a little bit of a deal-breaker is b/c of 2K's terrible management of minutes and rotations. I would hope that if we set them before going into the mode that they'll stick.

# 62 supermati @ 10/23/13 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	FInally, someone with some sense...Jeez, some of you are really anal about thus multi-team stuff. But I really hope those who wont buy the game because of one petty thing stick to their word.

You don't get it. It's not "one petty thing". People who play multi-team Associations usually control all 30 teams in order to keep the experience realistic. CPU Free Agent, Rotation, Trading logic are completely broken. Controlling 30 teams keeps the mode playable for many.

Not controlling more than one team breaks the game mode. And if it's your primary game mode, then why even care about it?

# 63 supermati @ 10/23/13 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	How do you know they didnt fix it? Why do you all panic so fast? lol And lets not act like real life teams dont horrible trades and signing. Happens every year, for example the Jazz giving Mehmet Okur a huge contract like he was one of the greatest players of all time, These things happen...so should it not be expressed in the game? lol... Every trade isnt some perfect masterpiece in real life so why should it be in the game? The 49ers let go of Alex Smith after he took the team to a Championship game for a 3rd string QB from Cal?....Would that have made sense in Madden if you saw it? Would that be horrible logic?...These things do happen

The CPU would be amazing if it made "real mistakes". Sadly, they are different kind of mistakes, like not being able to handle sixth men properly, or make signings that make sense to what they are trying to accomplish for the following season.

# 64 ahuffman @ 10/23/13 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	FInally, someone with some sense...Jeez, some of you are really anal about thus multi-team stuff. But I really hope those who wont buy the game because of one petty thing stick to their word.

I am still buying since the game looks amazing. I just won't likely be able to fully enjoy it without 30 team control. I will stick with exhibition, my player and NBA Today. It's just a shame that they pulled a Madden and took out a feature that many of us enjoy.

# 65 MavsManiac4Life @ 10/23/13 09:25 PM

I also hate when games restrict for pretty much no reason. Why can't I choose to play alone or if I want to have 30 GMs for every team?

# 66 Melbournelad @ 10/23/13 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	How do you know they didnt fix it? Why do you all panic so fast? lol And lets not act like real life teams dont horrible trades and signing. Happens every year, for example the Jazz giving Mehmet Okur a huge contract like he was one of the greatest players of all time, These things happen...so should it not be expressed in the game? lol... Every trade isnt some perfect masterpiece in real life so why should it be in the game? The 49ers let go of Alex Smith after he took the team to a Championship game for a 3rd string QB from Cal?....Would that have made sense in Madden if you saw it? Would that be horrible logic?...These things do happen

Oh, I don't know, maybe because the current gen iteration of Association was introduced in 2k9 they didn't fix the logic in 2k10, 2k11, 2k12, 2k13, or 2k14 CG?

Again, I don't think you quite understand how horrible the logic is. It goews beyond just a couple random trades. It's been well documented in the roster sub-forum.

Also the Mehmet Okur signing you mentioned is exactly the type of signing we do want. Lol. That's not the problem.

# 67 MarvellousOne @ 10/23/13 09:29 PM

Doesn't bother me, I typically play single team associations. Multiteam takes to long to manage for me although it does suck that i can't be able to play an association with my brother or friends...overall it doesn't take away all the flair from the mode but it does come as a slight disappointment.

# 68 made in eu @ 10/23/13 09:37 PM

at least I hope "league pass"(the option which allows you to play any game in the schedule and control any team you want) isnt gone...

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Originally Posted by SimBaller


	Do you guys really think I would take this feature out of the game? If anything, I've made it more prominent. When you are on the NBA.com interface, you can move the cursor down to the 'League Pass' logo. Selecting this option takes you into the League Pass menu where can select/deselect any games on that day. The entire purpose of that League Pass logo is to allow the user to choose any game in the league to watch/play. You guys should know better than to believe the first rumor you hear.

from:
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...on-mode-4.html

# 69 DiceMan @ 10/23/13 09:37 PM

Slightly disappointed by this....... I usually only play with one team in association mode but I always select a 2nd team so I'm able to at least do the trades that happen during the season. I live with the crazy rotations (although I have lowered ratings in the past to make sure guys like Manu or Crawford still come off the bench) but I turn CPU trades off at least for the first year.

Is it enough to stop my purchase? Definitely not but I hope all the nonsense from previous years is fixed.

# 70 cthurt @ 10/23/13 09:37 PM

My only real issue is if we didn't have to create a character for the gm spot then having multiple teams probably wouldn't be an issue, all im saying is I hope for future games we wont have to create 30 characters just to be all the teams.

But I don't have a problem with it because being all the teams was more of a chore then anything else, so hopefully cpu ai is fixed but if not it will be just like any other year I bought 2k so no big deal. Hopefully the "other features" that aren't coming over from current gen aren't big deals to me either.

# 71 hesko @ 10/23/13 09:40 PM

i rather have a complete, balanced, streamlined game without all those unnecessary extras. what ive read so far sounds great. cant wait to see it in motion/use.

# 72 Melbournelad @ 10/23/13 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	You have to have that (Okur) in the game. Im sorry, but that is realistic. There are alot of teams with horrible GMs. Shouldnt that be expressed?

No, no. I mean the Okur signing is the exact kind of overpaid signing which happens in real life and SHOULD be in the game. In 2k teams never overpay a player.

# 73 supermati @ 10/23/13 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	You have to have that (Okur) in the game. Im sorry, but that is realistic. There are alot of teams with horrible GMs. Shouldnt that be expressed?

If you honestly think the game's historically bad A.I. tries to mimics real life mistakes then I suggest you read many of the "Insights" 2K devs have written in the past. They detail and explain how those errors are actually bad A.I which was being worked on to get fixed, little by little. They have been improved since 2K9, but sadly not enough.

# 74 hesko @ 10/23/13 09:46 PM

by unnecessary extras, i mean the things that takes away from the games brilliance. i'm not too worried about the things that didn't make it cause they always can be added in.

# 75 SteboSSK @ 10/23/13 09:49 PM

Your statement is flawed and off based. First off Alex lost his job to Kap when Kap played much better and was a more talented player they could open up the offense with. 2nd Kap was drafted to originally take his anyway, just so happen that Smith played decent enough to keep the job and Kap was a rookie. 3rd they traded Alex Smith for 2 2nd round draft picks. Which is the equivalent of mid to late 1st rounders in the NBA if you need a point of reference. 4th, Smith was a game manager and it could be argued that he held them back seeing that they made the Superbowl when Kap played the 2nd half of the year as the starter.

If you want to argue against the complaints of the association please have to have played it and went deep and saw the issues.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	How do you know they didnt fix it? Why do you all panic so fast? lol And lets not act like real life teams dont horrible trades and signing. Happens every year, for example the Jazz giving Mehmet Okur a huge contract like he was one of the greatest players of all time, These things happen...so should it not be expressed in the game? lol... Every trade isnt some perfect masterpiece in real life so why should it be in the game? The 49ers let go of Alex Smith after he took the team to a Championship game for a 3rd string QB from Cal?....Would that have made sense in Madden if you saw it? Would that be horrible logic?...These things do happen

# 76 supermati @ 10/23/13 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	Using football as an example, look at what the Minnesota are doing with all those damn QBs? Tampa Bay trading Josh Freeman after 4 games? Cleveland trading Richardson?.... If some of you saw this in Madden what would you think? Shouldnt a videogame , that we want to have realism, be able to express trades, releases and signing that dont make sense? Just because you or I look at these transactions and dont like them doesnt mean they dont happen. GMs are human and humans do stupid things on a whim. If reality, taking control of all the teams and doing what you think would happen is unrealistic

From the 2K11 Association Insight. From the words of SimBaller

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	"Over the past few years, we have implemented some very successful features in NBA.com, Player Roles, Player Ambitions, Player Morale, Player Personalities, and so on. I feel like these additions have defined the 2K Association experience. Moving forward, I would like The Association to be defined by something completely different, and that’s the smartest AI of any franchise mode across all sports titles. To achieve this goal, the main focus for us this year has been to completely re-write the underlying logic that drives the mode, along with adding new systems that will help the AI to make the smartest decisions possible at all times. Every time the CPU makes a move, they are making it for a very precise reason. It may not be completely evident to you at first as they often think two, three, even four steps ahead, but they are always thinking, always assessing. They have brains this year folks; here is how we did it…"

# 77 SteboSSK @ 10/23/13 09:54 PM

Do you pay attention to football or no? Cleveland traded Trent for a 1st rd pick b/c the team was struggling and went into a different direction, Josh Freeman has sucked for the last season and a half. This would be like Thomas Robinson getting traded to Houston because he isn't helping the bad team and they just decided to salvage the pick or how Memphis finally gave up on Thabeet b/c they realized that he would never even be a qtr of the player they thought he was.

What's happening in 2k is the total opposite. The CPU would consistently make trades they don't make roster sense for each, like K Love and Budinger for Iguodola and Koufos. Made 0 sense for either team and is pretty lopsided as well. CP3 signing with the Cavs every single off season. We can go on.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheRealHST


	Using football as an example, look at what the Minnesota are doing with all those damn QBs? Tampa Bay trading Josh Freeman after 4 games? Cleveland trading Richardson?.... If some of you saw this in Madden what would you think? Shouldnt a videogame , that we want to have realism, be able to express trades, releases and signing that dont make sense? Just because you or I look at these transactions and dont like them doesnt mean they dont happen. GMs are human and humans do stupid things on a whim. If reality, taking control of all the teams and doing what you think would happen is unrealistic

# 78 SteboSSK @ 10/23/13 09:56 PM

Every year they say they have fixed logic but the same stupid stuff happens.

# 79 Dr. Banner @ 10/23/13 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Abnormal101


	Who cares?.... That's the way I look at it. I'm a one team association guy

Same here....but a lot aren't, so sucks for them.

# 80 Dr. Banner @ 10/23/13 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by cbpo


	This was a dealbreaker for me sadly . Offline Association/season with friends is all I really do.

I'm sorry man, hope they change that for you guys who play multiple teams next year.

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