 I took a break from playing NBA 2K for last month and a half, haven't even booted up my PS5, which sounds crazy considering I've been doing this for like 6 plus years and I've yet to take a break. For a lot of reasons about to explain here in this video, it was necessary. I think 2K took a lot of missteps and I haven't caught y'all up on the news, so there's a lot to get into. Ladies and gentlemen, y'all new to the channel, be sure to subscribe. Let's do it. Alright, well some of this news is pretty old so I'm gonna brush through it. NBA 2K came out with their update number 3 and they came out with actually a lot of decent fixes. Pulled out of gameplay issues, they're fixing up a lot of the bugs that the game launched with. And on top of that now, there's snow in the city. So you guys probably already know that. Let's move on. 2K announced the 4 candidates for each borough that were gonna be mayors. I wasn't in one of them and that prompted like thousands of people to add 2K asking why I wasn't one of them. I think we know the answer why guys. God forbid you have a mayor that says whatever the f*** is on his mind. That would be tragic. So as Ronnie was hosting debates and everyone went in to vote for who was gonna be the next mayor of the 4 boroughs in the city, there was actually a couple interesting points. Tessino put out a tweet saying congratulations to the Knights. I resign as mayor. As mayor, I didn't even get power whatsoever. Was basically just a logo above my head with no ability to change anything. Couldn't even play Rival Day on my own server because everyone got error-coded and stuck outside. Which is interesting. You might be wondering what? Happy agent. Apparently a whole lot of people from B to E side, E side, E side, they were saying that they were getting error-coded left and right so they couldn't even participate in Rival Day the way they wanted to. So they lost Rival Day. Tessino's frustrated saying he didn't have no power with it. And that's something that could have told everybody was gonna happen. And then to add on to that, Troydan put out a tweet saying congrats to poor boys sitting on winning mayor. I tried to make the most of it but that job really wasn't for me. Good luck to the rest of the Western Wildcats. So gone are the days man where Tessino's voice and Troydan's voice are gonna berate us every time we hop into the park. Until you throw on your headphone sponsored by Beats. Oh my god. It's interesting that two of the probably most popular people in the 2K community just said nah I don't want this precision no more y'all can have it. And for what it's worth there was actually some interesting people they were running up against like Los Polos is running for mayor, The Rapper, The Game was running for mayor and a whole bunch of other people in and around the community so I mean I don't really think people really cared about the voting to be honest with you so let's move on from that. Again I haven't honestly went on the park cuz I'm telling you I've been on a break. We'll get into that man. But if you haven't taken a look at what it looks like and you haven't seen it on Twitter there's snow in the park now ladies and gentlemen. Someone asked the question why isn't there never snowfall guys I want snowfall in my game because if they ever added snowfall into NBA 2K the servers will come bust to levels you wouldn't even imagine. They can't even get the current city right right? Took us three weeks just for it to be playable do you guys remember that? And so Ronnie in what I feel like was a response to a lot of people asking why I wasn't nominated as one of the candidates for mayor put out this tweet saying one candidate for each affiliation is gonna be a high level grind guy. I want to build a platform for the guys who really earned it by grinding. You should support and vote these guys if you're one of them. Which is basically saying agent only played a game so stop asking for him to be a mayor in the game. And Ronnie followed up with another tweet on a separate note of a different change he made saying put in another change this morning to make the park and rec grind more equitable continuing to monitor so sent thoughts letting us know if it's closer to equal happy gaming. And a lot of people in the replies are saying they see no difference typical. Let's get back to that last point about you had to be playing the game a lot to be a mayor. I think 2k made some serious missteps and it's no it's no secret that there's really little interest in NBA 2k right now relative to everything else going around in the gaming community. I think 2k thought that everything was sweet. They thought the game was gonna launch next gen and things was gonna be incredible. We could just continue to drop these broken games. In fact, you know what what we'll do is we'll drop the most broken game of all time and then everyone's gonna be fine with it. And 2k really thought it was sweet because Call of Duty was a launch title too and Call of Duty came out playable and Call of Duty came out fun. And so 2k's competition by the way is not other basketball games. It's the other casual games on the market. The Fortnite's and the Call of Duty's. Y'all remember in 2k 18 when the game was asked but Fortnite just came out what people do. They went to play Fortnite. So 2k began to scramble to put their game together so that it could become playable so that y'all don't immediately leave to play the next game. Now I was on phone calls while my friends like yo what you playing right now? Zombies. I'm playing zombies. I'm playing multiplayer. I'm playing Warzone. I'm playing anything but 2k right now. It's like 2k y'all can't continue to release broken products. Then fix the product and then you guys are gonna come back, right? I've been doing this 2k stuff for a while. I mean I remember I started 2k 14, my GM, 2k 15, my GM, 2k 16. I did a little bit of my team. I bounced around a little bit. 2k 17 jumped into the park. 18 pro amp park. Like I've been doing this. I played every imaginable mode where I've been doing this for a little bit. I could see where 2k made the missteps. And if y'all remember correctly back in the 2k 17 days when I was blowing up, everyone used to tell me like yo agent you're so negative all the time. All you do is hate on 2k. I remember I used to get those comments all the time. And that's because I would see something wrong with the game. And I'll hop on here on these videos and I'll try and make it a point. This is something that has to change. I did that all year. All year when there was a problem when they added the grand badge and I thought it was crazy overpowered. I said something about it. That was a year where I believe the dev spent like literally a good part of that year patching a lot of the jump shots that I was creating that was hitting money. But throughout that year I quickly realized and as we went into 2k 18 I for sure realized that there wasn't really listening to anything I was saying. I'm gonna be honest with y'all they wasn't listening. Like I believe I'm so passionately that I want this game to be better. So I make these points like yo this is something that's wrong with the game. It has to change. But I quickly realized not only did they not care what I had to say but the only time they would make a change is if they needed to like the game was in such horrible condition that it was unplayable. That's the only time. If the change was a quality life change or it would just be marginal improvements they wouldn't listen. It would be there's nothing I could say in a video that make him make a change in the game. And that kind of hurt cause as 2k 18 was rolling around I'm thinking to myself like yo this is the worst 2k all time. I know that to be a fucking fact but who's one of the people that stuck in the game that was uploading every other day. I never missed every other day regardless of what was going on in my life I would upload every other day. They didn't give us new content. They didn't give us nothing. What was I doing? I was uploading that bull every other day. I was doing that man. Like I tried to keep the community lit because I was like this is what I would have wanted if I was playing 2k. I want at least a few content creators stick around and make some content cause most of the guys just cut and left. And I understood why they left. I mean the game is garbage. 2k 18 was the worst 2k in the history of the franchise and the fucked up part is we all got bamboozled cause when they launched the neighborhood and we saw who's like yo it's gonna be like GTA 5 type. We all got bamboozled man. We all came in with these crazy high expectations and the game just didn't work. Not only did it not work but it was the most depressing, grayscale, least lively game of all time. Y'all noticed throughout 2k 18 I was coming with the criticism too. I was like 2k this snatchbacks and blow by all that has to change. I was saying that over and over again. It did for 2k 19. 2k 19 in my opinion next to 2k 16 and 11 is one of the best 2k's of all time. Very fun 2k. Man, if it wasn't for a couple changes, the shotgun test system, ooh I woulda, literally coulda been the greatest of all time. If it wasn't for stretch bags abusing shotgun test systems, I swear. But you notice in that year I wasn't complaining as much why? Cause I realized it wasn't doing nothing. Like would it get views when I would sit there and talk about problems in the game? Yeah it would. But I was getting tired of it. Like guys you have to remember I'm a gamer yo. I've been doing this since I was four years old and my dad bought me a PS1. So when I play games I want the games to be good. And God forbid you give me a platform where I could sit here and talk about problems. I'ma do it. But when it's not making a positive impact man, I'm not gonna continue doing it. So I began to get real inconsistent with my ranked criticism videos. Cause every once in a while a situation so large you come out and talk about it. But I wasn't doing it the way I used to. 2k 20 came out, y'all was barely seeing me doing it. I just throw it in there every couple months so y'all remember that I still care about this game. I still want this game to be better. Y'all have to remember that's my main goal here. And you have to see the incongruence there when 2k that's not their goal. Their goal is to make money and I get it. Cause we've seen developers like Telltale Games go under. Like take two as a company they almost went bankrupt. Y'all have to remember this is a money making business. You have to be there to make money. So I recognize when they make money making decisions I allow it. But there's some decisions where when it comes at the cost of the game I have to think to myself like y'all how long are we gonna wait before we just remove these billboards? How long? How unplayable does this game have to get before we just do that? And it's not gonna make it better if I just talk about it. Cause I'm telling you right now people like LD2K they do a great job at finding feedback from the community and telling the developers. And then the developers actually are strapped cause they don't have time to make none of these decisions I've been telling y'all the solution is to hire more people. The developers don't have time or resources to make the decision which is a crazy problem to have considering the game makes billions and billions every year at launches guys. You shouldn't ever have to say the words lack of resources on a game that's highly profitable. That doesn't make sense to me. So I'm starting to lose faith that anything I say will ever make a positive impact. Here I'm going scaling back, scaling back, scaling back, scaling back. 2K21 comes out the city. I'm not gonna lie to you off rip. I thought it was an exciting idea. And I still think it is. But it was done so horribly off rip. It was so unplayable off rip. 2K thought it was real sweet. Then Call of Duty came in here and I genuinely believe that's the main reason why a lot of people lost interest in the beginning of the launch is Call of Duty just ate up all the 2K people that played a game. They was on there playing the game that actually worked. And I'm seeing it happen guys. You have to remember, how long have I been uploading this game, man? Yeah, how long have I been uploading this game? So then I'm watching 2K just down f***ing bad right now over some that they could have solved before launch. What am I supposed to do? And then at the same exact time, y'all have to remember I'm uploading almost daily on the second channel. I launched a new channel with low uploading three times a week on playback, podcast drop two times a week, and AMPs taking off. How could my focus be on this right now, man? In the realities, I'm still a gamer. So I wasn't not gaming during this time. I love CD Projekt Red. Did they muffle this launch of Cyberpunk? Yeah, they did, but I'm playing it on PC. It's not that bad. I'm playing Valorant, man. I'm still playing games because this is what I do. I want to do this for the rest of my life but I just want to play games. It's so fun to play games. Whether I get paid for it or I don't, I'm playing games, man. Y'all don't know the games I play on the side. Y'all think I only game agent plays as 2K because it's the only game I upload. I play other games. I just don't upload them. I don't have an audience for those. This is something that I've been doing over the last three years since 2K17 really. And I recommend more content creators do because it'll help you from not burning out. What I did is I only played 2K when I needed to. Not because I didn't enjoy the game when 2K19 was out or 2K20 was out, but because I didn't want to deal with being burnt out on the game that I get to upload for a living. So I want to, when I hop on these games, y'all see me do these funny moment videos with Vortex and Lowe and Click and all these other people. I want to genuinely have a real smile on my face because I'm enjoying myself. But what I'm afraid is going to happen because 2K wasn't for a long time doing a good job with releasing consistent new content is get burnt out. Y'all going to have to see me forcing myself to play the game? That's not going to be fun for y'all could tell if I'm forcing it. There's no way I could keep that smile on my face for that long. There just isn't a way. I remember before they made the update to remove the billboards and the game was rocking on two frames per second, I was forcing it. And I dropped the video comparing me forcing it to me actually enjoying the game once they made that change. The reality is, is man, y'all sit here and you watch these videos. You guys care about the game. You guys want the game to be good. I've lost faith in my ability to have any kind of meaningful positive change. Am I still going to bring up issues from time to time? Yeah, I will. Y'all think my videos went from in like rants type criticism videos to more like funny moments like me having a good time videos. Cause this wasn't working, bro. The first thing it wasn't working at all. Anyway, plus there's a lot of stuff behind the scenes that I just think is like, is not a good look. And my opinion is deterring people from even uploading the game. I'm not delusional enough to believe that the world of gaming revolves around content creators. I think we play a role, but I don't think it runs on us. I think 2K can still be a successful game regardless of who's creating content anywhere. I don't think they're relying on me to be a good game, not even remotely. And you'll notice a lot of other content creators is feeling the same frustration I'm feeling, man. They're trying to find some other to do cause 2K is not making it a good, like 2K is actively ruining the community, in my opinion. And which is so sad cause I genuinely believe they've added like a couple of people onto the team that have made it like a more hospitable place. Like they've added some cool people to the team. I'm on the community side of things. Anyway, that's genuinely how I've been feeling. I'm back to uploading now and let me know what y'all want to see from me really at the end of the day. Cause now I have so many other channels like I'm doing a lot of things that's not this. And all those links by the way are in the description. Y'all want to see something from me. Y'all just gonna have to let me know in the comments section but I'm gonna hop on. I do want to experiment with this little snow city. Ah, ah, ah. And I haven't played in a while so I'm gonna hop on. I'm gonna have a smile on my face while I'm doing it. And I'm hoping all these changes and these patches that they've been dropping actually make the game enjoyable. If you want to watch the last funny moments video I did man, it's sitting right here pretty. If not, I'm gonna catch you guys in the next one. I'm out.