I'm super behind this, and I don't even watch "real" Basketball. I love this idea of esports becoming a legitimate thing as all is does is open more avenues for competition in more than just the physical space.
E-Bucks. There's going to be a team called E-Bucks. How can this not fail?
Edit: Also just realized he said you could be female if you wanted to be. That's real interesting because I'm pretty sure thats never been a thing in 2k before.
So would they outlaw all the exploits and glitches? I never got into online 2k but always seem like there is some new broken exploit each year. Or would they actually spend time making the gameplay better instead ober producing the my player stuff?
Anyway, e sports aint my thing beyond a few fighting game matches here and there.
I'm an avid 2K player that watches 2KTV for the interviews and spurts of VC to spend on MyTeam packs; they spend a LOT of time covering "Top Plays" from their Pro Am stuff and team strategies and team win-loss records.
I'm worried that this is going to blow up in their face because it always looks like garbage, cheesy basketball to me when they show clips of it but maybe the NBA's backing will allow them to finally get their servers in order and cut the latency down from the half or full second that it is now to a reasonable, fighting or shooting game like standard. It was never all that bad on the PS3 and pretty par with offline on PS2, but whether it's the graphics or just dated netcode the latency online is pretty awful on PS4.
E-Bucks. There's going to be a team called E-Bucks. How can this not fail?
Edit: Also just realized he said you could be female if you wanted to be. That's real interesting because I'm pretty sure thats never been a thing in 2k before.
Wonder if this signals WNBA teams/licenses in 2k17.
football teams are testing this idea with Fifa. Some clubs have signed some esports guys.
That said, i don't know how furtile the NBA esport scene is. Esports needs to happen from the bottom, not from the top.
That last sentence is how I feel about it. I can't remember a game that started to promote as an esport and made it that big, only failures (Evolve comes to mind). The most popular esports- LoL, Dota, sc, CS, etc.- have all started bottom up basically, and there isn't widespread interest in nba 2K esports.
I'm super behind this, and I don't even watch "real" Basketball. I love this idea of esports becoming a legitimate thing as all is does is open more avenues for competition in more than just the physical space.
imo the way that happens is not "real sports as esports" but current esports getting more exposure- and I think that's steadily been happening. As the article mentions, not just NBA celebs but also the 76ers ownership themselves have already invested into esports. IMO it would be better for "esports" as a whole if the NBA co-partnered with like, DOTA or something to sponsor/partner/help broadcast existing popular esports. Like if you get extended access or higher quality streams through NBA League pass or something.
This seems potentially cool! Could also be the worst thing to ever happen, but let's hope it works out. I've played a lot of 5v5 "team up" matches, and they're always fun to play, yet inevitably chaotic. If teams are able to put together actual high level play and team work resembling an actual NBA game, then that sounds like something I'd be interested to watch.
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