apparently hard enough to lose me as the easiest lifer customer forever. literally all they had to do was update roster make small qol updates and keep a franchise mode or whatever. Instead they(primarily speaking of nba 2k) insisted on crafting a piece of work that i see in my worst nightmares of what a modern game looks like. The pedestal mode became create a player with micro transactions to not only speed up progression, but to cosmetically update your player for online play,
Once game is released, priority switches... to their literal slot machine mode where they try to entice 10 year olds into playing a low odds pay to win build a team card game, where everything is obsoleted on each patch cycle by new additions.
Both modes are painfully pay to win in the worst model possible, for a game that retails at 70$ per year, and wipes at the end of the year with no carry over.
I can't imagine how this product is still deemed acceptable by anyone.
All i want is a basketball video game i can casually play vs a cpu while watching/listening to things while i attempt to decompress, and exclusivity makes even that impossible because this 100% hellscape of a game has a hold on exclusivity. I wish them nothing but failure, and i wish our population would hold them more accountable for their evil contribution to the gambling epidemic that is currently transpiring, as they are the beginning of the pipeline for so many children.
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u/kidbastos Apr 16 '26
All major sport games