segasaturnboy wrote:Only the moderators think its a good idea to get a fully featured last gen version. What exciting new mods are coming if we get a last gen version of 15? Its gonna be the same mods like it is every year.
I dont think its a good idea to have a fully featured last gen port, I think it would be incredibly stupid for 2K to continue to do that. I also think it is incredibly stupid how personally the pissed off people are taking the
lack of news. I'm not saying that you aren't entitled to know about the game before you preorder, I'm just saying you are not entitled to know about it on
your timetable.
Modding has changed and evolved each year. For me personally the last 3 years progressed from kinda making Street mods to making dozens of courts quickly to making a mod actually play differently from the sim game. We got the return of Ultimate Base Roster, more detailed than ever this year. We got the NBA Jam, Space Jam, Superhero, actually accurate NCAA mods during 2K14. We haven't even scratched the surface of what we can do with RED MC iff editing yet, but still we had a huge animation mod and a new cyberface technique that outdoes the PS4/X1 game. A moddable last gen 2K15 would probably continue with the innovations we are using. Shit, if we do get a PS4/X1 port for 2K15, that is or is not moddable, I would expect 2K14 to live on just like Live 08 is/was doing, just because of how customizable it is.
segasaturnboy wrote:blah blah butthurt
The rest of your shitspewing is just, fanatical. Your informed and thoughtful look into the x86 porting and NFL license issues shows it. And damage control? More like expectation control. Let me say this again, in bold, so all can see,
we are a niche within a niche, we make up a tiiiiiny portion of the entire game's sales and with all the arguing you guys do here of what can or can not be done to fix that is not helping.
Unfortunately we do not have a 2K marketing rep here on the site. We have Leftos (and technically Mike and Scott), none of those people are in any kind of power or control to choose whether or not a NG port happens for PC.
IF they do, you better believe Leftos would be fighting tooth and nail to make it happen. If you want to
do something productive about it, go hit their Twitter, go hit their Facebook, give feedback on the 2K forums, give ideas through the 2K Support, do something through the many 2K social media outlets, that is their purpose.
Whining here though? Calling me (us) out for damage control by saying "I'll enjoy whatever we get"? Shit, maybe if you experienced that uncertainty of what is going to happen to your hobby in the 5 months between the known cancellation of NBA Live 09 PC and the announcement of NBA 2K9 PC you would get it. 2K's latest game always,
always fixes or does new things that we cannot do. They may seem minor to you but that is important to me. It keeps what I am playing relevant. It lessens the blow of if/when PC no longer gets any port. It's personal to you because you feel an injustice. It's personal for me because this is my hobby that keeps me interested and entertained for 12 months of a year.
Please, do everything in your power to petition or do whatever you can for a next gen port. I feel like I've already done my part. All I can do is wait, but you best believe I am going to have fun with whatever comes out on Oct 7th. I'd be the first to bite 2K's hand that's feeding me my yearly addiction if I knew NG would be the prize, but there is no way I'm going to rally up a shitstorm that takes away from my enjoyment of the game here and now.
/rant