• simple@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Yeah but every NBA game gets flooded with negative reviews and these people will buy it again next year. It doesn’t matter how many negative reviews it has if it sells well.

    I always have a laugh when half of these reviews are “wow guys this poorly rated game that everyone told me is garbage turned out to be garbage. They’re making the same game every year!”, fast forward to them posting the same review next year.

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      1 year ago

      I got Madden 22 for free and for awhile I was enjoying it. It was my first Madden game since the 360. So I start going to forums for the game, and every single post was about how bad the game is, highlighting ridiculous bugs, shitty AI, missing features.

      Then details about Madden 23 started to come out and everyone that was tearing 22 apart was absolutely in love with every little thing that was shown.

      I stopped reading those forums. It was surreal.

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        1 year ago

        Civilization series is notorious for that too. Civ -1 is always the best of the series and current Civ is the worst.

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          At least civ tries new things. But yeah the constant release of a new game with less features is pretty common.

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      1 year ago

      I know someone who routinely preorders games and constantly gets disappointed and never fails to preorder again.

      Triple A games most of the time. You can probably guess which franchises.

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    1 year ago

    I just miss the sport games of 10-20 years ago. They were just fun. Of course they weren’t perfect but we didn’t care. Now microtransactions have ruined everything…

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        1 year ago

        Is that really the only important aspect? That it has the NBA or Madden or FIFA brand? Does the actual game not matter at all? Because if so, I think sports gamers made their decision and have no right to complain about it’s results.

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          Blitz tried to make a football game without licensed players after Madden got the exclusive.

          It flopped real fucking hard. Blitz The League, if you’re wondering.

          Sports fans really want those actual rosters.

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            Blitz the League came out at a different time, Madden was still a beloved series by this point. You have two sports games, both are good, but one of them has the NFL license and the other doesn’t. I wouldn’t fault anyone for looking at Madden as a no brainer in such a situation.

            Times have clearly changed, how many times did Angry Joe made videos ripping the Madden of the year into pieces? If the game is really that bad, giving up on the roster seems like a good compromise if it means a good game. But according to Madden players roster comes first, so I don’t know what they are complaining about.

            I get that a good sports game that has the players you know and support isn’t much to ask but it’s what it is.

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          Never met a sports ball fan? This shit isn’t negotiable. Having working multiplayer (last years always get shut down) and up to date accurate rosters is crucial.

          EA/2K got these people by the balls because there is no competition due to exclusivity. It’s really fucked up and sad for sports ball fans.

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            1 year ago

            I’m a nba fan though, and I just stopped playing basketball games because I got tired of paying for roster updates. And now monetization is even worse so genre is dead to me. So as a former fan of 2k I don’t understand having to play the games so badly that people keep paying for it every year.

            That applies to any game or franchise. If it gets bad enough that I detest it I’d just move on from it even if no option pops up. Especially one so predatory on top of being an annual release.

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    Stupid question: why call it 2K24 instead of 2024? It’s the same amount of characters…

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      The company is called 2K. Also, it is their “brand” since forever e.g. 2K5 for the 2005 one

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        also if you’ve ever asked a 2k player what game they play, they’ll often just say 2k without the year since it almost doesn’t matter