58 points

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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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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8 points

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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6 points

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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6 points

Man I remember being on the Gamefaqs forums back in like 2005 or so, and people were complaining about this exact scenario back then. Some things never change

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4 points

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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26 points

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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3 points

Good sports games are still made, they just don’t have the offical roster… out of the box.

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11 points

How are y’all buying this still jfc

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2 points

Who else makes NBA games?

That’s why.

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12 points

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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5 points

It’s the definitive basketball game and objectively does the job when it comes to that. It has its quirks for sure but the popularity speaks for itself. And given the choice, people would rather play as Lebron James as opposed to some random generated Jebron Lames; they want the real thing as seen on TV.

Now, 2K being dicks about having last-gen on PC after so many years. That’s definitely something to complain about and the reviews are deserved.

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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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5 points

Can’t you just keep playing year old version? Like NBA22 or NBA21, skip a few years in between?

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There’re definitely roster updates and other little stuff that gets added and tweaked in the new versions as much as people like to meme about “same game”. The old versions don’t update so that’s how they get new sales. Kinda bullshit but that’s what it is.

PC gets a special short straw though and is the last gen version of the game despite PC being on par or better than the new consoles. 2K knows where they make the money and do the least everywhere else. That part is definite bullshit.

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Many people do. Yes, there are those that buy every year but I genuinely think they are the minority. You gotta think, even if only 1/3 of all the 2k NBA fans buy every three years, that’s… still a lot of sales.

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No one said you have to buy basketball games

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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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3 points

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

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19 points

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

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It also distinguishes them from EA’s sports titles. Or at least, it did, when they both made games for the same sports.

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1 point

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

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Someone in marketing thought that sounded cooler and would make more sales

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