 So this is around the time of year where apparently everybody gets super excited about NBA lives come back Talk about how NBA lives gonna accomplish this this and this they're gonna take back this kind of market share And then 2k should be super worried because NBA live is on their ass now. I'm gonna talk about it I am gonna give my opinion on it. Let's get into it first of all. I'm sick I'm gonna try not to yell along talking pretty loud right now my throat is hurting I've been popping like 20 or 30 of these can't possibly be healthy But it's what I've been doing before we even get into the video anytime I criticize 2k everybody goes Yeah, you know what that's true agent is always in fact I agree with this guy right here anytime I criticize and be alive and be alive fanboys The forever reason you're either a sheep or you're getting paid by 2k because it's impossible to have an opinion That's negative about it be alive. So any sort of criticism I bring here is straight unbiased just automatic truth If you want some truth, I've been paid by NBA live, but I've never been paid by 2k So if I was gonna be biased towards anybody it would be NBA live unless you count the Kyrie 3's like I got from 2k Dead stop on sale for $2,000 hitting me up serious offers only All right, so let's get into it people always talk about this comeback every single year NBA live 10 came out And then we didn't see no live 11. We didn't see no elite 12 or elite 13 That's what they called it apparently they changed your name They changed it back to live 14 live 14 was the next game to come out There was a drought of three years where no NBA live game came out around that time I was super excited. They had three years to develop a basketball game. I thought that it's gonna be a serious comeback I was super optimistic people were making their comeback videos You know everybody's all excited and be alive was the worst basketball product ever come out in the history of ever And here we think to ourselves nothing could be worse than a real life 14 And be alive 15 comes out and all we could say about it the most positive thing is it was a step in the right direction From the worst game ever you literally could not have went backwards So that was the most positive thing you can say every alive 16 is coming out You're thinking to yourself man They're gonna switch off the ignite engine now They're gonna switch to the frost bite engine and all these rumors are coming out and we're thinking to ourselves Yo, this is the year they're gonna come back. It's gonna be super exciting in live 16 was it was just it was just it was Another step in the right direction. See where I'm going here. They've never made any major transformation of leaps I don't know why we still have the expectation that they should throughout all this time live is pushing like three 400,000 products meanwhile NBA 2k is pushing like four or five million that on top of the incredibly egregious Microtransactions NBA 2k sells it was super clear that 2k had literally all the market share But something interesting happened because no NBA live 17 dropped right they delayed the game and then they eventually just said nah No live 17 is coming out and so here we go We have this blue area of opportunity because now we have two years to develop a product now We were sure for sure for sure frostbite is gonna be introduced everybody's super excited about the graphical changes that are gonna be coming All the changes to shading potentially animations are gonna look better and then live 18 comes out and It was just another step in the right direction. Yeah, it's gonna be another step They spent a whole year in that case for live 18 two years on the game It's gonna be a step, but we were looking for transformational changes that would almost warrant a quote-unquote Comeback so that 2k could be worried or whatever an article came out a few weeks ago talking about how take to Underperform because NBA 2k was doing badly and it was nothing that NBA live did it was literally because of fortnight Weirdly enough. It wasn't even a sports title that had to put pressure on NBA 2k. It was a third-person Battle royale game. So here we are again this year where the same people are again optimistic for whatever reason the NBA live 19 It's gonna be the year the NBA 2k should be worried and then be alive is gonna do a comeback And in my mind if they had two years to do it last year and they still couldn't accomplish it I don't know what changes they could have made in the last year since NBA live 18s launch That would somehow warrant some sort of serious comeback So there's some major issues I see with NBA live and I'm gonna touch on those before I start talking about the positive stuff for me The biggest issue is the animations not only the lack of animations, but how they look as well the animations look floaty They don't look realistic. They look ridiculous that on top of the fact that there's not nearly enough dribble packages Not enough jump shot. You can't mix and weave jump shots with the jump shot creator There's no park mode. I mean there is a pro and mode There's bare bones relative to 2k and I think 2k has a bare bones pro and mode So what I don't know what that says about NBA live has to fix their latency issue I thought NBA 2k had the worst latency in the industry. No, no, no, no, no, no, no No, I am enjoying rainbow six and fortnight where I have like 36 millisecond ping on NBA 2k I'm pushing to 300 on NBA live. It's even worse. It makes it impossible to react online It makes the gameplay sluggish and slow like that has to be improved The court design looks fantastic. Whoever is working on the level design for NBA live needs an automatic pay raise Pay those guys. NBA live always has a better presentation and soundtrack than 2k for whatever that's worth The career mode on NBA live is a pathetic joke. It is a literal joke The fact that I have to sit through the incredibly boring and useless Stephen A Smith cutscenes makes NBA 2k 18 look like the best story mode I've ever played in my life Like it's so incredibly useless. The player progression is even worse on NBA live than it is on 2k and 2k is already pretty bad at it themselves There's a lot they have to do just in terms of modes in terms of variety But again, I think the biggest thing again would be the animations because the biggest criticism people have is when they see NBA live There's just always something off about it and the NBA live devs know that I've talked to them before and They're really aware of their games issues even if they public you don't come out and say it So if they know that the issue exists then the problem is how do they fix the issue? For whatever reason they haven't gotten that part of the puzzle solved and I think that's the biggest puzzle piece It's almost like finding the corners when you're creating a puzzle You have to have the corners because it makes everything else building so much easier. I haven't built a puzzle in like a decade What do they still sell puzzles? What happened to puzzles? But here we are again talking about some sort of NBA live 19 comeback I don't know what people are truly expecting. I think NBA live is like a good change of pace from 2k I know plenty of people that started to play NBA live just because there's so sake of 2k and given all the controversies and bullsh** 2k has put themselves through over the last couple years between NBA 2k 17 and 18 With players being deleted right with unskippable cutscenes and an abusive amount of advertisements everywhere you look in both 2k 17 and 18 You want to talk about all the problems of corrupted players and and my team's packs costing so much It's literally you got to go out and work just to find micro transactions So you can open up some of these packs like the progression systems not enough There's no different parks. They're recycling parks talking about every single issue 2k has dealt with and NBA live Hasn't even remotely made a comeback. They've actually been on the same pace I don't see how I could be optimistic about that game anymore for NBA live All I could ever be is hopeful that don't figure everything out But I refuse to believe because I've done it over the past like six years That mba live is going to make this comeback And I'm going to be so excited about it because every time I give him that bit of hope They come out with a with a product that at best is just a step in the right direction Demarda Rosen took a step in the right direction this year in terms of three-point shooting But he's still a bad three-point shooter. I can't see a realistic way of how mba live 19 is poised for that comeback We've been waiting for I've said it and I'll say it again I honestly think ea's best bet is to just bring back mba street. Don't even bother competing with 2k What's the point? We've seen the success of mba playgrounds one weirdly enough playgrounds two was canceled It's a genre in the video game industry that people have been waiting for for so long They've been asking for it almost reminds me is so calm too anytime playstation puts out a pool So calm two remastered wins every single time that being said i'm still hopeful But you got me f***ed up if you expect me to be optimistic about this year's mba live So explain to me how does this come back and happen is it gonna happen because they switched off the ignite engine Finally like what are they adding are they adding a new career mode that's different from last year? Are they adding a new player mode where the player progression is better? Are they going deep into ultimate team? Is that going to be how they bring it back? Like explain to me what is going to be the difference that they haven't already been trying in the last few years That's going to be the reason why this year is going to be some sort of comeback mba live has been putting the game on sale at one point I think it was on sale for like six dollars in canada Listen if at six dollars people don't decide they want the game Like what do you do at that point? You just give it for free? I mean they could give it out for free and you know live off the microtransactions But I think mba live doesn't even have as much microtransactions They would have to increase the price that might actually be the best bet I'm i'm so serious right now if mba live released their game for free and then just relied on Microtransactions to generate revenue for them so they can make consistent improvements They would be so much better off and i'm sick Oh Whoa, I honestly think that's 2k's best bet too. There's a new trend of free to play games blowing up It's actually not a new trend legal legends has proved that it's a very good idea off the jump But to see fortnight do it on consoles and succeed We might see some developers actually looking from the from the distance talking about we might just drop our game Free to play and then of course it's free people can try it out. Why not the game is free All they got to do is download the game and then at that point you got it Right you use if the game is good enough you'll keep them on the game And so that might be the move i'm not gonna lie to you It's not like mba live is getting so much sales that it doesn't make sense to drop the game for free because they'll be losing out on So much revenue and mba live is risking pissing off their hardcore fan base that buys the game day one Because the people that bought mba live 18 day one were pissed off when a month later the game was on sale for half price They're saying they could have just waited to buy the game I've seen plenty of people disappointed in the thread when mba live announced that it was going to be on sale that quickly You know what in fact if mba live released their game for free and it was like a one-time release Then i could actually see how that game might be able to come back and take some market share from 2k because at free People like i mean, why would you not try the game out and at that point? It might just be like people are so used to 2k You might just have to take a little bit of time playing mba live since it's free They'll probably be hopping on the game playing if they're in fans of basketball That that is mba live's best hope I don't know the logistics and the numbers behind the situation But i won't see why they would do anything different Of course, there's the issue of perceived value any time a game is free People begin to think that the game is free because it's bad, right? Like when you tell people fortnite is free for the first time they're like what a game that good is free Like it almost baffles them because they assume that games that are more expensive Tends to be quote-unquote better games The reality is it's been a resurgence of free-to-play games. That's been incredibly fun to play I'm gonna leave it on that if you guys enjoyed the video drop a like subscribe if you guys are new Yo, give me your thoughts on mba live man for real because i don't see how people could be optimistic about it But every single year it's like i've been let down too many times to believe it once again But i'm curious what you guys think about it catch y'all later mouth peace