Upcoming NBA Live 16 Developer Interviews; Submit Your Questions!

[Andrew]

Upcoming NBA Live 16 Developer Interview/Q&As

We'll have the opportunity to conduct some interviews/Q&As with the NBA Live 16 development team in the coming weeks, and while I'd like to think we've got a pretty good handle on what the community wants to hear about and have several questions in mind already, we're also open to suggestions.

We can't promise that we'll ask every question (we're not going to be able to ask hundreds and hundreds!) and we can't promise that everything will get answered (that's at the discretion of EA PR), but we certainly want to include all of you in the proceedings. Needless to say, we're also not going to ask questions that are rude or insulting; we're after genuine answers about NBA Live 16, after all.

Having said all that...feel free to start posting your suggestions!

[[Q]]

What improvements have you made to the gameplay and presentation to add to the realism of the game?

Is Live Run back yet?

Are there any new contract options to add to the depth and realism of dynasty and rising star modes?

[tedus]

1. in-game injury?
2. How does the dynasty improve??
3. How does post move improve?
4. How does the playbook revamp?
5. How does the presentation improve?

[mp3]

What improvements have you made to the gameplay and presentation to add to the realism of the game?

Is Live Run back yet?

Are there any new contract options to add to the depth and realism of dynasty and rising star modes?

1. in-game injury?
2. How does the dynasty improve??
3. How does post move improve?
4. How does the playbook revamp?
5. How does the presentation improve?

Theses are pretty much my questions too.

[JBulls]

are the old robo animations ever gonna get removed, who are the players they body scanned

[mp3]

Body scanning is something I would like to see more of.

It's all very well getting a players face spot on with all his tattoos but if that face is being placed on the same player model as 99% of the league it loses its realism imo

[Bulls1220]

Have you guys finally added in game player injuries?

[grodbegaming]

With the addition of GameFace HD in NBA live 16, will there be more ethnic hair styles to choose from when customizing our player?

[22cedric]

Once NBA Live Gets its core right will NBA All Star Weekend return ?

(NBA Live Commentary Concerns)

The commentary in NBA Live 15 is subpar to say the least once you get about a minute into the game they stop actually talking about the players at all it’s so monotone. The commentary is extremely generic there will be a lot of quiet stretches. It’s annoying actually if I have to hear passes the ball, dribbling it down the court multiple times in a row.

(NBA Live 16 Commentary Suggestions)

Make commentary sound as organic as possible with natural sounding conversation, anecdotes and reactions to the current game situation as well as the current and recent seasons in Dynasty. Have the commentators react with appropriate excitement and play off one another as in real life. There should be more variance and a sense of improvisation. Each color analyst should fully contribute their unique insight on trends within the game. It would be cool to have the ESPN commentators face scanned into the game. The commentary should have little to no timegaps, as well as little repetition of lines. I want NBA Lives commentary to be very solid since NBA 2Ks commentary is very impressive and stellar. NBA Live 16 needs authentic ESPN Commentary that sounds like a actual NBA broadcast game. It would be cool if Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy could be in the booth talking in the actual game.

Will a ESPN ticker be implemented in NBA Live in the future ?

Via Izzy Snow ‏@izzysnowhd If Online Team Play returns in regards to NBA 2K's My Park people dislike waiting on those little circles how about for those that are waiting allow us to be in a practice gym.

NBA Live Crowd details: Crowds are unique everyone is different and expresses things differently. Will dynamic crowds and have crowds react intelligently to how the game is progressing (hot for the home team on a big run, quiet or booing when the home team is playing poorly or the away team is on a big run) ? Show Infants, teenagers, adults, and seniors in the crowds. Emotion: Happy, sad, frustrated, noisy.
Crowd details should include: Father with his son picking him up over his head, Individuals that are trying to get a specific NBA players attention, A girlfriend with her boyfriend taking pictures together and eating food, Fans with bobble heads taunting others. Have the ESPN commentators on the sidelines talking and conversing in real-time. Show NBA Players diving into crowds, the NBA basketball getting stuck on the basketball rim. Have umpires with whistles doing their job. Show NBA playing chatting and disagreeing with umpires on specific calls. Have the NBA coaches show different emotions based on situations.

[Andrew]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far!

[beegees]

Will be NBA Live 16 have European servers? I'm living in Eastern Europe and it's will be a key point to migrate to my lovely game series again after a bunch of lags of a rival 'sim' that have its servers in USA only, while I have 200 ms ping and often loose matches because of a crashed shot timing with annoying multiplayer 'experience'. ?)

[Andrew]

We'll see what we can find out.

[Phreak50]

I have had this question for 10+ years and no one at EA ever answers.

- Why has NBA Live had the same courtside announcer for 19 years. Yes that's right, 19 years. No matter how good he is (I personally think his voice and name pronunciation is poor), having not made the effort to change it up (since Mitch Richmond was on the cover...) is nothing short of mind boggling.

[[Q]]

Al Murdoch? Probably for continuity's sake so they don't have to rerecord all the names

At some point they had him in game saying every nba players name in a low sad tone and an excited tone (for home/away teams) so that's at least 700 sound files for names alone

Plus he's better than the 2k arena announcer

[Phreak50]

When you've played the game for 20 years straight it's pretty sad to hear the same voice. From a development viewpoint, I'd be ashamed to rehash the same thing for a few years let alone 19.

It's also time to use the extra storage space available, have multiple arena voices. Mix it up.

[mp3]

He sounds like the voice over guy that does the British X-Factor TV show, Iam okay with it myself it's not a make or break issue for me.

[Andrew]

Yeah, can't say I've ever been bothered by him either.

[kingpnp]

Will be NBA Live 16 have European servers? I'm living in Eastern Europe and it's will be a key point to migrate to my lovely game series again after a bunch of lags of a rival 'sim' that have its servers in USA only, while I have 200 ms ping and often loose matches because of a crashed shot timing with annoying multiplayer 'experience'. ?)

I would assume they could use a euro server or 2(lol). I assume they have them for FIFA. unless they can only use them for FIFA . Then that would suck for guys like yourself. if you're an Xbox-er. they could use microsoft Azzure European Servers to hose the Euro NBA LIVE players.

[ThaLiveKing]

When you steal the ball, will you be able to go 0-100 instead of players slowly accelerating. Both offense and defense

[beegees]

I guess about an option to decrease foul-outs requirements in the rules section of the options menu of the game. When you play 5 min quarters, 6 fouls are unreal to receiving by one player, will we can edit this parameter to more fairy 3-4? In offline at least, but online are welcomed too.
It's always fun for me to play / play against for more players in a game, not only starters + 6,7, (8).
P.S. The same problem is by 2K.

[beegees]

if you're an Xbox-er. they could use microsoft Azzure European Servers to hose the Euro NBA LIVE players.

Yes, I'm. X1 forever!

[Andrew]

I recorded an interview with Sean O'Brien for Episode #129 of the NLSC Podcast. Stay tuned for it, coming soon!

[Andrew]

We have the green light to post the interview, so it should be out within the next 12 hours or so.

[Kevin]

Noice.

[Andrew]

We've already conducted our pre-launch interview (catch our chat with Sean O'Brien here, if you haven't already), but if we get a chance to do any post-release Q&As, we'll open up a new thread for questions. Thanks again for the submissions and interest!