So I come home today and look with apprehension at my XBOX (that I bought exclusively for 2K18 (to avoid the cheats on PC), knowing that I have another long day to grind and not have fun at all. I turn it on and watch with dread as Patch 1.04 starts to download. The only thing that made this grind doable was the glitch that I found online that allowed me to set 1 minute quarters in mycareer. Even with this glitch, the games were miserable grindfests whose sole intentions were to earn VC to level up and to do gym exercises for badges. I start the game up, and as I feared, they patched this glitch - the one thing that kept me sane through this grind.
I tried playing the first game against the Bucks, 5 min quarters. Getting destroyed because I'm rated 79 and a piece of trash. And then I decided - this is not where I want my life to lead. I spend an insane amount of time each year on 2K, 400 hours. For a middle-aged dad, that's a vast part of your disposable time. I've gotten into arguments with my wife, even have ignored my daughter's crying temporarily as I was playing online. This is it. I can takes no more. It's a sign from God that it's time to put away childish things. My frustration with this game has been building up and building up. When entertainment stops being entertaining, we walk out. We walk out of the theater. We stop the movie. We stop playing. I am done with 2K. While I may still play other video games, I am done putting in the ridiculous hours to grind year after year after year. You killed the golden egg 2K. You had a product that you were making millions on, a captive audience, and you killed it from your greed. I will never buy another 2K video game again. (Ask EA Sports if I'm true to my word about that...)
Later fellas; I hope I have enough willpower to not turn back to this wretched game.