I can't imagine the mental gymnastics required for people to condone this.
Yep. Doodoo.anyone having connection issues to MyPlayer right now? mine gets stuck at 30%, loads and then no online players show up in the neighborhood. wtf.
anyone having connection issues to MyPlayer right now? mine gets stuck at 30%, loads and then no online players show up in the neighborhood. wtf.
Was literally about to post asking about loading times. I had no problem at all during the first few days and then today suddenly loading times have reached 2K17 depths. As I type this I'm stuck on 30%, I couldn't open the closet or start a shootaround in my court either.
Good job 2K.
EDIT: It just finished loading into the neighbourhood and it's a ghost town.
Was literally about to post asking about loading times. I had no problem at all during the first few days and then today suddenly loading times have reached 2K17 depths. As I type this I'm stuck on 30%, I couldn't open the closet or start a shootaround in my court either.
Good job 2K.
EDIT: It just finished loading into the neighbourhood and it's a ghost town.
Up to 40k VC... Lol I hope this stays unpatched until this weekend when I can spend a few hours on it.
Got my first triple double in Pro-Am! Also both times player of the game for that extra VC.
How???
Edit: yall spending an hour to make 4$ of VC. Jfc the struggle is real.
I just wanna play the park, its the only game I play so I dont mind paying for vc, its not serious, dont tell me what to do with my money, its just cosmetics.I can't imagine the mental gymnastics required for people to condone this.
In any other game I might pay the $5-10 and save three or four hours of my time but nah, 2K aren't getting another goddamn penny from me and I only paid £23 for my copy. If I paid full price I'd be furious.
Stupid people don't really have mental gymnastics. They're just dumb.
Anyways I'm up to 327k. Close to my goal of 500k!
this has been my go to move for 4 or so years as well.Eh, all this player erasing x vc shit is why I wait until Black Friday to buy 2K for $30
Lol at that $60 comment, fuck outta here
Where did you score it for $23?In any other game I might pay the $5-10 and save three or four hours of my time but nah, 2K aren't getting another goddamn penny from me and I only paid £23 for my copy. If I paid full price I'd be furious.
Your mentality is why they continue to go deepee with this stuff and get away with it. I'd rather spend a couple hours at a time doing this than giving them anything. I can watch a show and do this at the same time and gain 10k or more an episode so I'm not hurting.I only play play now and my league since vc is annoying. If i was to bother with anything else id rather burn cash than make 4$ an hour vc jeeze thats some nike sweat shop shit.
Your mentality is why they continue to go deepee with this stuff and get away with it. I'd rather spend a couple hours at a time doing this than giving them anything. I can watch a show and do this at the same time and gain 10k or more an episode so I'm not hurting.
In any other game I might pay the $5-10 and save three or four hours of my time but nah, 2K aren't getting another goddamn penny from me and I only paid £23 for my copy. If I paid full price I'd be furious.
Where did you score it for $23?
I hate myself for spending $60 on an annual NBA game (went digital on Switch), but I really feel I got my money's worth. Just started a season, and added two expansion teams for the fun of it. Was able to customize everything from the court floor to a third jersey. The depth of a season mode is incredible.
Meanwhile, the 3 on 3 online playground matches are a lot of fun, and well, I really get a kick out of the cutscenes during MyPlayer mode.
I haven't played a 2K game since 2K13, so maybe I am not burnt out on another NBA 2K game, but man, this game has totally been worth $60. Looking forward to playing this on my airplane ride back home tomorrow.
I feel it. But it's either grind it now, over a long period of time "naturally", or just not play/be under leveled. Already bought the game, and the gameplay is enjoyable, so I'd like to have fun online with it, which means VC. Hopefully live is on the switch next year, heard good things about this year's, then I won't even sweat 2k anymore.Like I said I don't buy or use VC, i just find that sweat shop mentality demeaning as hell. I feel bad.
I feel it. But it's either grind it now, over a long period of time "naturally", or just not play/be under leveled. Already bought the game, and the gameplay is enjoyable, so I'd like to have fun online with it, which means VC. Hopefully live is on the switch next year, heard good things about this year's, then I won't even sweat 2k anymore.
Those are all steps forward, but NBA 2K18 has also taken a significant step back by bringing microtransactions to a place that feels uncomfortable. They were around last year, but now you're forced to use virtual currency to buy everything from a tattoo to a T-shirt, as well as increasing your character's stats. You can earn this currency by playing – very slowly – but if you buy the $150 version of NBA 2K18 you can get a big boost with the currency that comes with it. You'll see plenty of those artificially high-rated players around, and it feels like we're being steered toward spending money to avoid an insane amount of hours spent grinding for points.
This haves and have-nots problem is magnified because, again, individual players on the court play much more closely to their strengths and weaknesses than before. So when you start out, your 60-rated player is pretty much bad across the board. The people who paid money and have better skills are still not great at everything, but no one is going to want to play with your 60 because you're now even more of a liability. It just feels really perplexing to make a competitive online mode so focused on character stats, because that means getting up to speed means either paying out money or grinding for hours to make yourself viable. Most competitive first-person shooters hide cosmetics or at worst maps behind a paywall rather than more powerful guns because that would throw off the balance, and this is no different. It's a dangerous slide into pay-to-win territory.
I made a shot creator playmaker. Hope this turns out well...
I'm farming for a Rodman clone next...
I don't look at it as me grinding an hour for the equivalent of $5, but more like me grinding for an hour for the equivalent of playing the actual bullshit game for a week.
A week's worth of work being compressed to an hour of me listening to a podcast and hitting some buttons is more compelling than an hour's worth of work being compressed to $5.
Anyway they've got me for $70 already, they ain't getting any more.
I just made a 6'2 playmaking shot creator PG. That Dimer badge is going to be a ballache but right now I'm just happy to be an offensive threat. Coming from my pure lockdown small forward, the difference is like night and day.
Yeah, I'm marathoning Mythbusters on Netflix while I grind out MyLeague. If I can get to 2-300k by the weekend then I'll be happy. That'll be enough to max out both of my current players with enough left over for animations/headstart on a third build if I choose to do so.
What gold badges do you get? I'm still stuck doing this dumb ass prelude
i think i'm about to drop this game
my character at 85 in 2k17 felt great, but my character at 85 in 2k18 feels like shit
I'm pretty sure ur other 3 gold badges are Free Throw Ace, Quick Reflexes and Glue Hands, since everyone is getting them.Hmmm, gimme a minute to load up my career and have a look at the badges, it doesn't tell you which ones go up to what level which is yet more bullshit concerning the career this year, on top of the fact that you can't see what you actually get when you spend VC on increasing attributes.
According to this chap on Reddit (First reply), dimer is only silver which sucks as I kinda hoped it would be a gold badge even though passing is my secondary archetype.
EDIT: Let's see if we can work this out then. We know I get 3 HOF, 5 Gold, 7 Silver and 6 Bronze.
HOF: Ankle Breaker, Tireless Scorer, Difficult Shots
Gold: Definitely get Mid Range Deadeye and Tear Dropper.
Silver: Dimer, P&R Maestro
Bronze: Corner specialist, defensive stopper.
That leaves: Flashy Passer, Break Starter, One Man Fast Break, Glue Hands, Quick Reflexes, Free Throw Ace, Relentless Finisher, Post Spin Technician, Acrobat, Lob City Passer, Charge Card, Up&Under Specialist
Charge Card, Glue Hands, Free Throw Ace and Quick Reflexes are cards that everybody gets so I assume they will be bronze which means everything else will be silver or better. Acrobat and Relentless Finisher were shot creator badges last year so I guess they'd be gold? Not sure what the final gold badge would be.
Yeah, but u still get 600 VC for a win and like 600 VC for an A+ grade. Felt more than last year where I would roughly get 1k VC per win.Wow they even nerfed the POTG VC lmao. It was 100 or 200 last year? Greedy suckers.
I usually just click on my team on the main menu if i want to check quickly.Really silly question, but how the hell do you check how much VC you have?
I usually just click on my team on the main menu if i want to check quickly.
In career mode you can go to the road to 99 page.
They have an article on VC in NBA 2K on OS asking have they crossed the line, they have different editors responses.
Mike Lowe's responses is completely ridiculous
This is part of it
"For instance, we can all agree that its not ideal to have to pay VC for a new haircut in NBA 2K, but at the same time games have remained at $60 for how many years now? Its a bit of a miracle that gaming prices have stayed stagnant, and I think we actually have VC to thank for it on some level. For someone like me who spends the majority of their time in franchise modes, VC is actually beneficial because it keeps the cost of a game at $60"
https://www.operationsports.com/vc-nba-2k18-crossed-line-acceptability/
That is BS, this game cost at $60 becouse it sales millions at that price, and even then 2K releases a $99 version and $149 version which is more then that last few years, gaming companies are not about to raise prices of base games that would piss of consumers, it has nothing to do with VC
At least the other editors on OS are ripping into 2K on the VC thing
They have an article on VC in NBA 2K on OS asking have they crossed the line, they have different editors responses.
Mike Lowe's responses is completely ridiculous
This is part of it
"For instance, we can all agree that its not ideal to have to pay VC for a new haircut in NBA 2K, but at the same time games have remained at $60 for how many years now? Its a bit of a miracle that gaming prices have stayed stagnant, and I think we actually have VC to thank for it on some level. For someone like me who spends the majority of their time in franchise modes, VC is actually beneficial because it keeps the cost of a game at $60"
https://www.operationsports.com/vc-nba-2k18-crossed-line-acceptability/
That is BS, this game cost at $60 becouse it sales millions at that price, and even then 2K releases a $99 version and $149 version which is more then that last few years, gaming companies are not about to raise prices of base games that would piss of consumers, it has nothing to do with VC
At least the other editors on OS are ripping into 2K on the VC thing
They have an article on VC in NBA 2K on OS asking have they crossed the line, they have different editors responses.
Mike Lowe's responses is completely ridiculous
This is part of it
"For instance, we can all agree that its not ideal to have to pay VC for a new haircut in NBA 2K, but at the same time games have remained at $60 for how many years now? Its a bit of a miracle that gaming prices have stayed stagnant, and I think we actually have VC to thank for it on some level. For someone like me who spends the majority of their time in franchise modes, VC is actually beneficial because it keeps the cost of a game at $60"
https://www.operationsports.com/vc-nba-2k18-crossed-line-acceptability/
That is BS, this game cost at $60 becouse it sales millions at that price, and even then 2K releases a $99 version and $149 version which is more then that last few years, gaming companies are not about to raise prices of base games that would piss of consumers, it has nothing to do with VC
At least the other editors on OS are ripping into 2K on the VC thing