The Friday Five: 5 Ways MyCAREER Messes With Your GamePutting aside MyCAREER in favour of MyNBA, fun match-ups in Play Now, and a little bit of MyTEAM, has been a breath of fresh air. As always, I must emphasise that I've had thousands of hours of fun with MyCAREER and its connected modes. I mean that literally, as I've checked the Hours Played count on PC and PlayStation alike! It was a mode that I was playing out of habit though, and when I finally broke that habit, I found that I was enjoying basketball gaming in a way that I hadn't been for quite a while. In short, it was time to move on, and I finally did.
Not only was it refreshing, it was also eye-opening. I was aware of how playing MyCAREER had become a habit, to the point where I could say that grinding had become oddly addictive. However, as I've shifted away from MyCAREER and its connected modes, I've been caught off guard by how my style of play, as well as my expectations of gameplay, had been affected by playing the mode for so many years. It's something I noticed when I first started playing head-to-head games on Parsec, as well as diving into MyTEAM and MyNBA. Simply put, as fun as it can be, playing MyCAREER messes with your virtual game. Here are five examples of how it does.