OperationSports: If I'm judging sports games based on this generation of consoles, then NBA 2K stands above the rest. But if I think back to the beginning of this generation, it's hard to imagine saying such a thing. It's easy to forget now, but Live and NBA 2K went their separate ways back in 2005 when the Xbox 360 launched.
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Twinfinite takes a look at NBA 2K12's ads and what makes them so great. Also, Brian Wilson in short shorts...
2K Sports seems to have pulled the plug on its old online servers. Users playing All-Pro Football 2K8, NHL 2K10, College Hoops 2K8 and the year-old NBA 2K12 multiplayer have noticed a lack of online support across the last three weeks.
... pulling the online MP from a game that's only a year old.
The box says it has an online MP mode, and I'm sure people are still playing 2k12 online (probably many people who aren't enthusiastic about the whole Jay-Z layer they vomitted over the game), so they should keep supporting the online MP mode for years to come.
I agree. 1 year is to short. The other gams I can understand since 08 is almost 5 years ago and as for their NHL title....well EA took them out of that genre with EA's NHL series.
Shutting down the servers is going to reduce their overhead costs so I see why as a business standpoint. I read that 2k won't be doing MLB titles anymore as well so expect MLB 2k12's servers to shut down in the year to come.
It's bad enough that we sports fans buy a new sports game every year with minimal changes other then the rosters....now we have no choice if we want to keep older titles to play online. Things like this will lead to more pirating of sports games. Nobody want to be forced to pay $60 for a game and then have the servers shut down a year later giving you no choice but to buy the next $60 game. People are going to look for other ways around having to pay full price for a new game because their money for the current game didn't stretch out for more then a year.
That is real cheap on the part of 2K sports..I'm sure many people enjoyed playing 2K12 online and it just came out last year...
Why is this not illegal? When are games going to be treated seriously by the law? If this happened with anything else, people would be up in arms wanting blood.
I think the only fair thing to do is that when people buy these games, included in the sticker price is a bond. After the servers shut down, 2K (in this case) have to pay them the bond back, whether it be bank deposit or game credits.
I think next-gen developers are going to be doing this to many more games. It basically forces you to buy the newer one. Why people still buy these games is outstanding. Have they no freaking morals?
Not sure but I think the back of the box says they can disable the online part anytime..
I was going to buy 2k12 this year and play it online haha.
I think one year is absurb. The typical console server shutdown is 2 years, but hey on PC I can run my own server for any game anytime.
It desperately needs an overhaul. I hate to say this, but being the best isn't saying much if the competition is either nonexistent or mediocre.
As good as this series has been and continues to be, it has some pretty glaring issues that should have been addressed years ago. Personally I'd like to see a more dynamic, free-flowing game that gives more control to the player. The animations are numerous, detailed, and pretty, but that's also this games double-edged sword in that the animations themselves arrest control from the player. Many of them either need to be interruptable, calibrated in terms of speed(some of them are so SLOW and drawn out), and more dynamic.
The excuse I always hear is "well at least it's better than Live". I'm not looking for that. I don't care if my game is better than the rest, I want it to be as good as it possibly can be by it's OWN merit. 2K, for as good as it is, and last year's game was just incredible I might add, still ain't there yet.
i think 2k11 was pretty damn good the cpu mite be a little too smart and it kills the gameplay sumwhat but overall its a great presentation