sticky-fingers wrote:If they hired no one and fired no one, so last two years, so it was basicly the same team.
If I follow your logic, they must have seen a lot of cute cat pictures.
Again, it doesnt work like that...
Or maybe you just don't see or don't acknowledge changes under the hood. You keep repeating "it doesnt work like that" but don't say how you think it does.
Every year 2K brings new textures, faces or animations. Those things are not a 5 minute work.
You know what else artists work on? MyCareer story. And now MyGM story too. Those things aren't trivial either.
sticky-fingers wrote:btw, 2K works in parallel on "next" next gen version, so their schedule must be busy this year.
Uh... yeah. I might have mentioned it once or twice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NBA2k/comments ... _for_2k20/ and pretty sure I posted about it here on the forums too. It's a public knowledge.
sticky-fingers wrote:And again, if they dont hire people, so they allocate NBA resources on WNBA, then, the NBA part has been neglected compared to other years, or their team have seen fewer cute cat pictures...
That doesn't mean they haven't made any changes on NBA modes (yeah, i read their announcements), but there are inevitably fewer of them due to inclusion of WNBA.
And again, some of the stuff is between NBA and WNBA. You think they'd add 3-5 thousand animations (Mike Wang's words) just for a Play Now and single Season modes? Or do you think it's possible they'll add these animation to MyCareer and CAP? Maybe preparing themselves for possible female MyPlayers next year.
You're saying the NBA part is being neglected, but you are not saying how, besides few generic terms.
sticky-fingers wrote:When I give you quick examples your answer was systematically "business decision" or improvement not needed.
Because... it's a business decision. 2K is a business. Their goal is to make money, they don't care if the product is perfect as long as it makes money and grows.
Devs on the other hand generally care about quality of their games, but they also have management doing... business decisions. telling them what to work on.
That's how management works. It's their job. Why do you think they added all these minigames and dances to Park? Because people left after 2 months and went to Fortnite. There was a survey in 2K18 and that was first answer to "why did you stop playing?" - they were definitely seeing it as a competition so they added literal Battle Royale mode etc.
And do you know what that was? Business. Decision.
sticky-fingers wrote:But if the scan team, art team worked 40 hours on females cyberfaces, they could have worked on current and retro faces. Why ? Because the job is mostly AVERAGE.
You need detailled examples ? Go on 2k17/18/19 modding sections, read CF threads and compare default faces with modded faces, even on superstars and cover athletes.
It's even worst for arenas. Some textures are related to an era where FHD wasnt even the norm. Now, on upgraded consoles (PS4 Pro) and even more on PC, you can play at 4K with 60fps.
You judge that these improvements arent necessary, it's your choice. But check forums, twitter, reddit, and check if these threads have more or less posts than this one.
And 2K is aware of it, last year for example, they finally update Larry Bird face, because his previous CF looked like Angela Merkel...
And yet most players will not notice. Modding community is a niche audience. Or people will notice, complain and still buy the new game.
Like I said, that's diminishing returns. Occasionally they rework some faces, especially when NBA players themselves are like "WTF 2K", but again, they had to choose between new feature with positive PR trying to bring new players or updating bunch of content that is already in the game that will not bring new players because like I said... it's in the game already.
Also Larry Bird looked like Michael Rapaport in previous games. Of course they had to fix him when they brought in actual Michael Rapaport to the game. \s
sticky-fingers wrote:So i judge that WNBA in the game is not necessary.
Many things in the game aren't necessary. But if they bring money they become necessary for managers.
Also I'm pretty sure if this was Create-a-Legend announcement it suddenly wouldn't be waste of time.
Overall most people care about 2 things: MyCareer (Park) and MyTeam. Adding WNBA has potential to draw new customers to both in the upcoming games.
Also agreed that the
BronBron06 is a daft git. Saying he'll use nude mods and then this... Like c'mon. Also you're on the internet, just go watch some porn ffs.