EMan wrote:I Hate Mondays wrote:What I've noticed in all of these videos, no single action shot/portrait was updated. I hope that's because this is some late beta version of the game and the game didn't go Gold yet. If they stick to the same pictures, 2K are officially lazier than a bag of chips and they should be ashamed.
The fact that they haven't changed a single pixel in the scoreboard is one thing. The moment you don't change the players pictures, I reckon most users will feel like the game is a slightly updated version of 2K17. The basic "Bruh that is 2K17.5 smh, Live winning it this year" comments will double their number - and their number is worse than in previous years from what I've noticed. Just an objective observation.
The absolutely brilliant thing about making and releasing a sports video game franchise year after year is that all a company needs to do really is update the rosters, slap a $40-60 price tag on it, and call it a day. There are MANY gullible people out there that will continue to pay full price for what amounts to roster work and both EA and 2K know this. The terms for those types of people are 'marks' or 'whales'. They're the same people who probably make very good use of microtransactions and DLC/skin purchases in other games.
But to insinuate that the games play the same, and they are only roster updates, is not accurate at all. NBA 2K17 plays very different from NBA 2K16, and 2K15 also plays different. They do not have the same feel (especially before patches). NBA 2K17 felt completely different to me when it was first released (and until December) than 2K16.
Not to mention that the new games usually add new features or modes. Like a new mycareer type, new teams (whether it be classic teams, or college teams for a mode, or high school teams), features like creating teams (with the ability to relocate, make jerseys, choose logo, input art work), changes to MyLeague features, etc.
NBA 2K11 had a totally different feel from 2K10, 2K12 eliminated a bunch of the animation issues (robotic movements) from NBA 2K11, NBA 2K13 introduced a completely new dribble system. I could go on and on.
Not only that, all the current players from NBA 2K17 had portrait changes from NBA 2K16, same with 2K15 to 2K16. I expect the same for NBA 2K18.
I'm not a gullible person. I buy every year, and I get excited about new features or modes, or a new feel. The amount of content we have with NBA 2K is absolutely insane, and the fact that we can mod it is just the icing on the cake.