2K Account Required?

[Rodster360]

Seriously 2K, why? Is it to have easy access so we can get tricked into buying your additional fluff? I've purchased every edition of Golf Club and when you bought out the Developer. You are giving me a total rethink on 2K 25. I may have to stick with 2K 23.

[tjkitchener]

I Agree Rodster360

[Rodster360]

I got wise to their NBA 2K business model and swore off the franchise for good. These guys charge full price for essentially an online game, then they get people to pony up for more money to be competitive online with other NBA 2K players. The following year they stop supporting the previous year and you are left with a full priced demo. That's why I still have my NBA 2K14 version for the PS4.

They are going to ruin this golf franchise as well. That's where this is heading. They are going to shutdown the servers on the previous golf game when they release the latest version.

2K are a money grubbing publisher. This is another reason why it's never good when a small developer is bought out by a Publisher with deep pockets. EA has ruined Bioware and they are doing the same to Codemasters.

I'm glad Supergiantgames who've made great games like Hades and Bastion said they will not sellout to anyone because they have seen what happens to talented small as well as indie developers.

[ProudTiger]

We are living in the age of greed and narcissim.

[Rodster360]

I checked and reinstalled 2K Golf Club 2019 on the XBOX and you can still download and play courses created by the community.

[Thrangar]

the demo made me resynk because of a different pc. I had allready linked from last versions but was on a different pc

[FunDhu]

agreed, after 2k23 which i found a fun game ruined by constant promotions to buy pointless upgrades i'd hoped for a less money grabbing game. if i have to give my details to play a demo, well stuff that. and the price for the 'legendary' edition. £105! i can buy four AAA games if i wait for sales at that price.

[Rodrigues]

Originally posted by Rodster360:

I checked and reinstalled 2K Golf Club 2019 on the XBOX and you can still download and play courses created by the community.

until they shutdown the servers late this year

[Leo]

Originally posted by Rodrigues:

Originally posted by Rodster360:

I checked and reinstalled 2K Golf Club 2019 on the XBOX and you can still download and play courses created by the community.

until they shutdown the servers late this year

Yeah the server issue after I found out I wish I never would have bought the game in the first place. When those servers shut down there will be no single player career mode no way to play multiplayer in any way whatsoever if you're lucky you're going to have six courses to play all by yourself with no real anything to the game they essentially have you by the game come back take the game away and tell you you have to buy the next version to play... That's like going out buying a snowmobile ride it for 5 years then the dealer comes out takes it away from you and says you have to buy a new one to keep riding.... What they're doing any judge would say I don't think so we the people should somehow get together file a class action because what they're doing is wrong they're stealing everybody's money and yet they don't give you what you really want sounds like the devil favorite demon

[Rodrigues]

they even put and ad inside the game, it's insidious. i bought very cheap keys on eneba for 19 and 21 recently after it got delisted.

[Rodster360]

Originally posted by Leo:

Originally posted by Rodrigues:

until they shutdown the servers late this year

Yeah the server issue after I found out I wish I never would have bought the game in the first place. When those servers shut down there will be no single player career mode no way to play multiplayer in any way whatsoever if you're lucky you're going to have six courses to play all by yourself with no real anything to the game they essentially have you by the game come back take the game away and tell you you have to buy the next version to play... That's like going out buying a snowmobile ride it for 5 years then the dealer comes out takes it away from you and says you have to buy a new one to keep riding.... What they're doing any judge would say I don't think so we the people should somehow get together file a class action because what they're doing is wrong they're stealing everybody's money and yet they don't give you what you really want sounds like the devil favorite demon

They do that with their NBA game and I can see that as each year the rosters change. However all their Golf games are on the same server. That's why you can download the same courses on PGA 2K 2019 all the way up to PGA 2K 2023.

That's a pretty crappy thing to do, cutting off access to community created Golf courses on their previous Golf titles with the exception of the current one. As I mentioned, they all appear to be running on the same servers.

NBA 2K20 was the last NBA game I would buy from them. It looks like PGA 2K23 will be my last game in the series for me. I won't encourage this behavior with my money. I'm sure 2K/Take Two doesn't care if I buy it or not but that's the reason why Publishers love the idea of Digital and server based games.

[Thrangar]

if i remember right 2019 would work if you got the file from the original creatyor and put it in your unpublished folder

[Trentscousin]

This will be the Civ7 of golfing games.

It's for the following reason.

Those at the very top don't play PC games, too busy doing things only the ultra rich can do I suppose, so when an underling says, "EA makes billions from online only and micro transactions, yes the buyers hate them, but they are mostly (no offense) spineless sycophants who will pay anything to feel "embiggened".

Top person(s) say, "Make it $o".

Just like you will never have a single player game of the content style and quality of "The Saboteur", ever again, so too are forever gone any hopes of decent offline singleplayer games.

I would suggest to try to find games pre-2010 that are fun and get them from some place which will let you store them offline on your own computer.

I live by analogy so, take "World of Warcraft" Retail oh the decline, only now getting better, but man oh man, did they stick the landing with "Classic Era Wow".

Minimal progressive filler, zero microtransactions (Classic Era Only).

Just like how I read it was presumed that it takes a while for a huge Sauropod Dinosaur to feel a pain in the tip of it's tail travel back up to it's brain, so too it will be at least another 3 to 5 years before the people in the high places notice and say, "hey, people hate what we are doing, some of them have even regrown their spines and are playing and spending their money (we want) elsewhere!

Maybe we should do something about this?

Calling it now, [If], no offline modes which let you save your courses and offline stats, [then], 2K's now obligatory "mixed reviews" from real people, but 13/10 from paid. "reviewer-shills".

I will now go offline, restart STEAM, and play PGA2K21 on my own custom (unpublished) desert course, which can neither be taken from me, nor altered, as it has been years since I let PGA2K21 update. (take note of updates, they can bite you and not in a good way).

Kindest possible regards to those who share my world views.

[Game Ban]

2K are a garbage company. Always have been and always will be.

[pizza7]

Originally posted by ProudTiger:

We are living in the age of greed and narcissim.

and dumb gamers.