Yes, it is still sitting at 11k concurrent 2K MT players having 12mil hours. This sub and r/games don’t really like sports ball games in general. Without fail the top opinion of each thread is”do people play this” /”why do people play with this” /”why is it that people buy it every year” it is painful even to sarcastically write sports ball. I find it amusing how players and automobile people have a tendency to hate sports outside loud.These sports matches are always the same specific game every year with roster updates *has never played any of those sports matches *.

The modifications are to technician not to anything important, except in monetization as noticed in every NBA game of the past ten years. They induce monetization hard but don’t spend dev time on say, an arcadey spin off style where the ballers have large heads or Splatoon styled contests like knights vs ninjas. Oh yeah, also incorporating in unskippable ads for immersion. The men and women who buy sports titles likely buy nothing else since they aren’t interested in NBA 2K facet of a match but more or less replaying sport matches.

Football Manager is like that too. If you purchase annual sports titles and perform different things your less prevalent compared to raw amount who solely buy those titles for state the simulation aspect. In terms of games you can blow off 60 dollars on, yearly, regressive and highly monetized game series are a large issue. COD and NBA2K are both excellent games in the things they do, but come bundled with a hundred and one issues from the box by a set game dead date to competitive monetization to even major repeats of assets and mechanics without developments to help them out.

They deserve it. I really like soccer, I like basketball, however 2K and FIFA are games which are made to milk individuals for hundred to thousand of dollars/euros annually, with little to no attempt to ever improve NBA 2K. Fuck that. You play it, you deserve all the shit that comes with it, because you are the reason this shit exists. You can play sports games without playing with the manners full of microtransactions. Yes but you’re also always purchasing something that is gradually stripping out the modes without MTX. Give it a year or two and they’ll find a way to cram it.

Servers shutting down after two years ought to buy mt to be the last thing anyone purchasing NBA 2k looks at. They should have a look at if they need offline or online. PC isn’t the place for it dont wind up mad for no reason. Cheaters aren’t the difficulty, its 2k themselves, the MTX in NBA 2K is mad how difficult you need to grind for this and at how overpriced it is. Be warned, the neighborhood for sliders and rosters is compared with Xbox and PS4 what Linux is compared to macOS and Windows 10. There are a few rosters, however they often are far worse than what them console bois have, we’ve got modsthey have a community that is massive. Offline is also great for two NBA 2K player coop since you can’t do that in internet.