2K's Greed killed this game

[Zoracs]

I remember seeing this game unveiled during Nintendo's September 2018 direct. I would've passed it on completely but my friend told me that this series was really cool, so I wanted to give it a shot.

Sometime around release, I heard this game had a really shady business model. Whether it was microtransactions or a one time paywall, that was the only thing people could talk about. I don't even remember if it was that bad to be honest, but that was always brought up when discussing this game.

It was basically dead on arrival because of that too. 2K got greedy and nobody wanted that. Now this game has maybe 80 active players worldwide and radio silence from its devs. It really sucks too, because the in game purchases are the only bad thing I heard about this game (and the dead playerbase).


I just hope 2K won't stick their fingers where they don't belong again, and that, if there is a PlayGrounds 3, it'll be free of all this crap.

Oh and, removing the first game from online stores was scummy and I won't forget that.

[View The Phenom]

False, greed did not kill this game; if you bothered doing some research you would know that micro-transactions aren't a requirement at all and you can unlock everything easily just by playing (including money to buy the Unlock All Roster Pack).

This game died because Sabre failed at advertising it, again. It was the same issue with the first game, their marketing team/strategy sucks; and it doesn't look like they made any major attempts to get 2K involved in serious marketing either.

You can't have an active community when nobody knows about your game.

[The Green Goblin]

Messaggio originale di View The Phenom:

False, greed did not kill this game; if you bothered doing some research you would know that micro-transactions aren't a requirement at all and you can unlock everything easily just by playing (including money to buy the Unlock All Roster Pack).

This game died because Sabre failed at advertising it, again. It was the same issue with the first game, their marketing team/strategy sucks; and it doesn't look like they made any major attempts to get 2K involved in serious marketing either.

You can't have an active community when nobody knows about your game.

It was way easier to earn packs in the first nba playgounds. They increased the grind and added micro transactions in an attempt to get people to pay to unlock everything rather than grinding.

[View The Phenom]

The first playgrounds had significantly fewer players to unlock. And all you really need to do in terms of "grinding" is to play a single season.

Since you get baller bucks for playing well you'll gain more players at a faster rate than you would in playgrounds 1, where you always gained a set amount of bucks per match regardless of how well you played.

[Zoracs]

Messaggio originale di View The Phenom:

False, greed did not kill this game; if you bothered doing some research you would know that micro-transactions aren't a requirement at all and you can unlock everything easily just by playing (including money to buy the Unlock All Roster Pack).

Yup, I did do research and I did know that.
You can also unlock everything through gameplay in EA's Battlefront 2, all the NBA 2K games, Overwatch, you get that idea.

Granted its nowhere near as bad in this game, however my point was that,
the fact that this game had Microtransactions at all kept ALOT of people away from it. Anti-marketing if you will.

Messaggio originale di View The Phenom:

This game died because Sabre failed at advertising it, again. It was the same issue with the first game, their marketing team/strategy sucks; and it doesn't look like they made any major attempts to get 2K involved in serious marketing either.

You can't have an active community when nobody knows about your game.

I will bring up that this game was shown off during 2018's September Nintendo Direct, but aside from that, yeah I don't remember any marketing.
Realistically that sounds like the biggest cause, after all people buy the mainline 2K games regardless.

I still believe the in game purchases were incredibly detrimental just for existing, even though they weren't all that bad. Hopefully Sabre makes a bigger impact with PlayGrounds 3.

[youngstunna23]

Damn so Sabre Sold out? Smh now they're nothing bums under the thumb of a corporation. They were literally bought to lesson the NBA competition. As soon as Take-two bought them a lot of People like me resigned this game to DOA. #tragic