offishall
July 17th, 2006, 08:00 AM
I think I will explain why I, a hardcore 2k fanboy since the dreamcast days, am jumpin ship this year to the EA side again
I can be said with a simple "2K6"
NHL 2k6, MLB 2k6 and NBA 2k6.
While NBA was pretty good, really good actually, it was a launch title for me, and I just loved it. Gameplay was right, difficulty was good, graphics where good. Very enjoyable.
Then a patch came out, and a patch for NCAA, that essentially broke NBA. This just makes no sense, how a patch for 1 game, can affect another. None the less..
MLB 2k6. A joke. Flat out joke. This is a game that came out, was sold for full price, and we were given a beta, not a final polished product. The issue with this game freezing was so bad the company had no choice but to release a patch to address it, however, every player still had no homeruns last year or no rbi's last year, fielders still look like corky running around the field. You know thinking back, we should have seen it coming, all the company interviews see, to comment on how cool the fans how they move will be, but never the gameplay, wierd. Oh yea, the patch took a month to come out...from beta to release candidate..maybe.
NHL 2k6. For me, hockey is a must owm title, but again, this year, we were promised next gen, but what we got was NHL 2k5.8 Take away the "SHINE" on the uniforms, and the ice texture, and it's the exact..same..game..Goal exploits aplenty, franchise freezing, and now for the 360 we get the very cool, loading forever screen. Ah yes, what a great next gen game. But this isn't what pushed me over the edge, no, it was that the company would just not address any of the issues with NHL because it's a game that does not sell as many copies as NBA or MLB, so it's a none priority, which says to me, I am not a priority. If any of us on here, who work, were to sell a product, and give the kind of customer support and take as long to resolve issues that 2K takes, our company would fail.
2K is becoming the very thing they sought to destroy with it's titles, they are nothing more than a company who releases games with new rosters, new shine, and are now taking the arcade approach.
All of the above have boiled over to the point where I am going back to EA. After Fight Night on 360, I am a beleiver, and if NHL 07 can deliver on HALF the promises we are being shown, I will not look back.
2K you have a lot of work to do to win me back over, and you can start by releasing games that are finished. I can guarentee you that if NHL 2K7 is released and the goal exploit, or franchise freeze remains, all you folks who tear into people like me, will start screaming for heads to roll. All of the above, I am not even talking about gameplay, I am talking about technical issues and customer service, gameplay is a whole other topic, but I can start it by saying we all went to 2k hockey for the SIM experiance, well, from the movies, previews and interviews, they are going arcade, the one thing that drew us to them, they are doing away with, If you want a preview of NHL 2k7, put some opera on in the background, and that will give you a good 2K7 feel.
Flame away.
I can be said with a simple "2K6"
NHL 2k6, MLB 2k6 and NBA 2k6.
While NBA was pretty good, really good actually, it was a launch title for me, and I just loved it. Gameplay was right, difficulty was good, graphics where good. Very enjoyable.
Then a patch came out, and a patch for NCAA, that essentially broke NBA. This just makes no sense, how a patch for 1 game, can affect another. None the less..
MLB 2k6. A joke. Flat out joke. This is a game that came out, was sold for full price, and we were given a beta, not a final polished product. The issue with this game freezing was so bad the company had no choice but to release a patch to address it, however, every player still had no homeruns last year or no rbi's last year, fielders still look like corky running around the field. You know thinking back, we should have seen it coming, all the company interviews see, to comment on how cool the fans how they move will be, but never the gameplay, wierd. Oh yea, the patch took a month to come out...from beta to release candidate..maybe.
NHL 2k6. For me, hockey is a must owm title, but again, this year, we were promised next gen, but what we got was NHL 2k5.8 Take away the "SHINE" on the uniforms, and the ice texture, and it's the exact..same..game..Goal exploits aplenty, franchise freezing, and now for the 360 we get the very cool, loading forever screen. Ah yes, what a great next gen game. But this isn't what pushed me over the edge, no, it was that the company would just not address any of the issues with NHL because it's a game that does not sell as many copies as NBA or MLB, so it's a none priority, which says to me, I am not a priority. If any of us on here, who work, were to sell a product, and give the kind of customer support and take as long to resolve issues that 2K takes, our company would fail.
2K is becoming the very thing they sought to destroy with it's titles, they are nothing more than a company who releases games with new rosters, new shine, and are now taking the arcade approach.
All of the above have boiled over to the point where I am going back to EA. After Fight Night on 360, I am a beleiver, and if NHL 07 can deliver on HALF the promises we are being shown, I will not look back.
2K you have a lot of work to do to win me back over, and you can start by releasing games that are finished. I can guarentee you that if NHL 2K7 is released and the goal exploit, or franchise freeze remains, all you folks who tear into people like me, will start screaming for heads to roll. All of the above, I am not even talking about gameplay, I am talking about technical issues and customer service, gameplay is a whole other topic, but I can start it by saying we all went to 2k hockey for the SIM experiance, well, from the movies, previews and interviews, they are going arcade, the one thing that drew us to them, they are doing away with, If you want a preview of NHL 2k7, put some opera on in the background, and that will give you a good 2K7 feel.
Flame away.