 Welcome back agent nation. My name of course. How can you guys not know me by this point is agent beam start? Let's get Into the news For our first story of the day an article drop that I found incredibly interesting that you're gonna find incredibly interesting So let's get into it ice cube says EA and 2k sports are interested in a big three video game We know 2k just bought NBA playgrounds. So apparently this is not a lie and it's weird I find it incredibly weird that he's saying this publicly usually all this happens privately Nobody goes out and talks about it publicly, but I let's get into what he says and I'll get into why I think he even made This public so they want a conference call apparently at some point and this is what Drexler said at first They said no, but now they're saying this has some weight and legs and they want to be a part of it We would love to have a big three on 2k sports or EA sports It's our dream because we want to grow the game and make it a global sports interesting ice cube Why are you making this public? I have a couple theories So this is just an idea of a game that they would like to create seems like an NBA Street type arcadey game Which I think we could use we can use a game like that But 2k is like yo saber interactive just finished producing NBA 2k playgrounds, too Let's buy the IP off of them instead of buying into this idea We don't even know what what is gonna be or whether it's gonna pan out or there's so much question marks 2k just bought it now Big threes in a weird position. They had two people at the table now They just have EA at the table once they talk about this publicly Maybe some other developers have have some a million meetings to discuss whether this makes sense for their organization It just applies some pressure on EA to maybe take the deal Which is what I think they're doing I would love to see some more competition in the realm and maybe 2k comes out and publishes a big three video game as Well, but the real question is who's gonna develop it like 2k and the guys who develop NBA games at NBA 2k They're already like they're up to the wall with the work. They have to do with NBA 2k They can't really just take a handful of developers and put them on another game. It's not gonna work out So where are you gonna get the developers? So I don't know. I think this is like a what could have happened situation I find it funny that he even made it public, but I thought it was interesting shout out to ice cube I hope this actually pans out for you guys It'd be cool to see a big three video game NBA Street like big three video game Yeah For our next story of the day ladies and gentlemen NBA 2k was just flexing on everybody The other day on Twitter because they put out this tweet so what a milestone a special Thank you to all our fans for making this happen and they're flexing because 2k 18 was the most popular and Successful financially game in NBA 2k's franchise history. It was the worst game in franchise history But it didn't make them the most amount of money So they had this little infographic over 2 billion games played 31 million my players created 618 million hours played I'm just saying 2k you're flexing on us with these numbers. I have a proposition Why don't you flex on us with the active daily users, right? When you hop on see is going stuff like that You know what tells you how much people are online because they're confident in their game They know the game was bomb 2k bro y'all flexing. I want to see that number I'm curious how many active 2k players are when I log in how many players are playing the game Usually 2k sells like around like six seven million copies between all their platforms But now the switch is doing really well, of course ps4 and Xbox are hitting their groove And it's just like it's the time like they're killing it with micro transactions If you check 2k stock prices them just doubled since just last year So yeah, they are making a lot of money and that's why when they say stuff like we're gonna reduce micro transactions I don't believe them because they're doing so insane in just in terms of business They would never want to mess with that formula until like, you know what happened with Ubisoft for the whole brand went to shit And they're like all right We have no choice and then they started to actually make good games. That's we'll see we'll see how it pans out But a little fluff piece 2k flexing on everybody saying that we're better than you all their competitors For our next story of the day everybody was asking me agent, bro What you think about the my gm my league news if you missed it Brian Mzik and Forbes with Eric Buenos, hopefully I didn't say that wrong it was NBA 2k senior developer came out with this long ass Blog ladies and gentlemen just detailing all the new stuff that's gonna be added to my GM my league and my league online So I did you the favor of summing it up in like a minute or two Let's get into it first things first and this isn't relevant specifically to my gym my league This is just creating a player in general. There's a lot more detail. If you can see lower lip prominence We can change the lower lip prominence now So they made they added some details so you can really get in depth with a creative player if that's the stuff You're into for my league online. They have full contracts now So they don't have that same keeper design if you play my league online, you know that was a major issue You had to like write down all your players on a piece of paper because if you played more than one year It became a mess. So they improved on that they added a new UI They talked about they added like a million sliders and I can't make the stuff up trade sliders progression sliders all that now We can move on to the overall rating important slider You can you can add a player fame important slider Which will change how much a team values of players historical contributions name and value There's a team style important slider if they just came up They got like a bunch of four-year-olds in the room and they're like hey Just think of some some sliders and they just added everything into the game all of it Just think of a slider imagine one it's in the game now So if you thought my league already had a lot of like sliders and customization they went all in this you're on that kind of Stuff so next up was my GM They talked about how like you can go with the story mode my jam the saga apparently they're doubling down on the story mode Or you can go with a traditional my GM and just skip all the shit if that's not what you're into on top of that They have difficulties now from my GM so you can go on easy medium hard or you can customize it Of course because that's the name of the game sliders customizing it probably one of the more interesting things is now They allow you to import previous draft classes. You can import the 1960s 6569, but the more interestingly from 1976 to now you can import all of those draft classes So if you ever wanted to go back in time and play yeah, you could do it now They added trade exceptions to the mix so when you trade a player you can get a trade exception back You guys know how the CBA stuff works They added this new player mentorship Which is a neat feature where if you have a veteran at point guard and then a young player at point guard The veteran can actually teach the young player stuff and help his progression It's an entire system and they even show a little graphic over here Which like this is this type of stuff that I like to see when I think of like my GM my league Just making it actually feel like a real experience and things like this definitely help Wow, I just hit the nastiest voice crack But y'all probably didn't notice that so I'm gonna edit that out So that's about it for all of my GM my league news my league I'm I don't really care honestly about my league my GM. I still don't my league online Definitely looks interesting after all these new changes all the improvements to my league and then the my league online improvements Now with full contracts. I'm probably be playing some of that in NBA 2k 19 But they doubled down on the story mode for my GM, which is like I was so bad the first time I don't know why they doubled down on it But whatever at least they give you the option to do the traditional my GM and still be miserable because apparently you're not playing my league I just I don't see the point of my GM still But I don't know I might play it a couple times. We'll see how things go So my last video I said I was hoping for some groundbreaking improvements I don't think this was groundbreaking, but I do think they took a pretty big step this year Which is good. Let's see how much replay value there is now once you actually hop into the game If you can play this for months on end or is it just like a five-time ting and then you move on for our next story of the day This one was some interesting drama between EA and 2k So if you guys don't know Madden just released right and in one of the songs they added Was it Big Bank? It was one of the Big Sean songs No, it was Big Bank by YG and on Big Sean's verse. He actually mentions Colin Kaepernick Now if you've been a human being and been living on the internet You've definitely heard all the controversy surrounding Colin Kaepernick and how for some reason the NFL wanted him dead And he was just kneeling trying to do the right thing whatever the case Okay, we know we know that apparently EA took Colin Kaepernick's name out of Big Bank and Big Sean tweeted saying yo I did not approve this what is going on and then Donovan Mitchell put out a tweet and say yo I'm not buying Madden. They're taking his name out like he's some sort of curse word And then things got really interesting and EA started to pay attention and then 2k escalated the conflict because that's some shit 2k would do running 2k posted this picture I don't know if this is recent or just the old picture and he wrote hashtag not a curse word He added Colin Kaepernick and I was like That's crazy and then EA was catching so much heat from everybody because that Donovan Mitchell He was blowing up Big Sean was like yo like my team did not approve this You can't just do that and then EA apparently plans on and I cannot make this stuff up putting up a patch They are going to patch Madden to add Colin Kaepernick's name back into the game and according to people that was tweeting at me And I don't know if it's true because I didn't double check it But according to those people this happened last year as well But I guess last year whoever whoever the artist was didn't make a conflict They didn't bring it up big Sean was the one to kind of just be like yo what's happening because I didn't do this So apparently it's happened in the past This is the second time it's happening and it was incredibly entertaining so of course being me I put out this poll just to see how people were thinking about the situation I'm actually gonna put the same poll on this video So click on the card above and vote which patch made you lose more brain cells when 2k patched Jordan's tongue Which let's be honest I lost half my brain cells due to that moment or when EA patched Kaepernick's name back in the song after taking it out And 2k is leading the vote right now, but there's five hours left So you never know what's gonna happen ladies and gentlemen that was some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a while just EA apologizing about taking a player's name out and I don't even know if it's EA's fault It really could just be the NFL's fault because you know the NFL is trying to pander to everybody that hates Kaepernick And then Kaepernick is doing all this fantastic stuff with charities and how could you hate the guy? I don't know but big Sean brought it up and he's just made like a funny story I felt like everybody needed to know a story like that. Okay. Let's move on to the next one for our next story of the day This isn't really a story. I actually don't know how much you even care about this So let's make it super quick. This is team 2k. You might be wondering agent. Who's on team 2k all of these guys I actually do not know what purpose team 2k serves. I assume they're gonna have Some sort of respond. Maybe they drop a locker code at some point I don't know but last year they had a team 2k that involved like six or seven people They almost doubled that this time So these are all the members of team 2k in case you care you probably don't though, but just in case you did For our final story of the day Michael Porter, Jr. Put out a tweet and it piqued my interest All right, because a lot of people tend to do stuff like this and I want to call him out on it He put out this tweet said I might retire from 2k can't find any competition That's like me pulling up to my rec center Destroying all the little kids in the 15 under and then being like listen man I just might retire from basketball because there's no competition Michael Porter You can't play average and below average people and then just assume you're so good You're just gonna retire now. I get it. You just kind of be funny in the tweet All right, but if you do play any good teams on prime any good teams on part You could even try me I haven't played the game in a minute and I'd still dust you by like 21 three And that's me being nice giving you that three-point. There's probably a contested green like for all I know I don't know what game what he's talking about He might be talking about my team or play now But if it like just know what you getting yourself into right now Michael Porter, Jr. Because you can have a lot of try-hards try harding To shut you up. I guess who was it's this Latin cobra 2k in the mentions was first at one point on the super max leader Boris so so now he wants your throat a Lot of people do this. It's not just him or they're like, oh, I'm just so good at this video game I'm just gonna stop playing cash does this all the time in real life basketball Cash knows that if he goes against certain people he will lose But then he just always plays but he'll face subscribers in a video and it's like this subscribe was obviously ass So yeah cash, you're not the greatest basketball player, but I just seen I just seen a Michael Porter doing this and I thought it was funny And if you didn't watch one of these two videos and you aren't clicking on him right now me and you are fighting All right, so go ahead and do that between me and you throw some hands. I'm gonna catch you guys in the next one. I'm out. Peace