 Welcome Agent Nation. My name of course is Agent Beamstar. Let's get right into the news So guys it's been a very interesting last couple weeks. There's a lot to talk about Let's just hop into it first things first rumor reports are saying now this according to a couple sources I talked to is verified but for now Let's just say it's a legend that Yanis is the unofficial cover athlete for the standard edition of NBA 2k 18 Now a couple fake bootleg drama alert videos ago. I talked about how Brian Mazeek We would call him an insider was predicting that Yanis would be on the cover because of the they will know our name Slogan and at the start of his career ain't nobody know how to pronounce his name There's too many syllables involved in his name. It was very difficult to say Consistently at least if you weren't Greek So it seems like Brian Mazeek's predictions were true and Yanis will accompany LeBron James as the two-cover athletes for NBA 2k 19 did I say 18 before I really meant to say 19 sometimes it's confusing right in related news during the NBA awards It was announced that NBA lives cover athlete was gonna be no one but Joel and bead easily the most entertaining Hilarious and now in the league currently now my favorite player. He's just so much fun to watch his shenanigans It's always making me crackle up Shout out to him now He's gonna be on that he's gonna be on the cover at NBA live and it seems to be like NBA live 19 It's gonna be the best one out yet just based on the improvements We've seen so at least for him an exciting moment. He gets to be on the cover of a game That's a lot of people's dreams for our next story of the day a week or two back Mike Wang put out a tweet and it caused a stir I didn't think it was relevant enough for me to drop a video on it But I was talking to Davidson Phantom and they were mad at me because I voted differently than they did So let's talk you've probably seen it already This is what Mike Wang said been seeing a lot of comments about this curious with the rest of the community things on a scale of 1 to 10 How are KD should park play be? Reply and tell me what you want park gameplay to look like in the future now in my vote I said eight and I actually replied saying please bring back a poem voice chat on parks, too I was just playing around obviously that's all something we want back That is exactly what Troy Dan wrote so I figured I just copy and paste his comment for comedic purpose Some people were mad. I didn't vote 10 Can we be clear on a scale of one being real life simulation to 10 being all the way arcadey? Which also means 10 being NBA Jam being NBA Street? I don't want the game to be no 10 listen I love NBA Street and NBA Jam But there's also a market for a sim basketball game or at least a semi-realistic looking basketball game That's fun to play if you voted 10 you have no idea what a scale really is in actuality a scaleless Two sides of the extreme and everything in the middle. I want park to be like fun I want them to throw crazy alley-oops and get exciting blocks I want there also to be a skills gap so it could be competitive just cuz Arcady doesn't necessarily mean that the game cannot be competitive games like 2k 14 and 15 It was an incredibly unrealistic animations and dunks and blocks in that game But it was incredibly fun to play no one ever looked at a unrealistic Dunkin one. Oh, I shouldn't be in the game man. That's not real life I know that's besides the point something we could all agree on is we want the opponent voice chat back in the game That's that's that's a massive thing, but it's also a small thing at the same time for our next story of the day I watched a video from a channel called clean price gaming He makes a lot of gaming related videos and he made a video talking about GTA 5 how successful It's been everything it did fantastic, but also the things it did Miserably one of the things that did miserably no doubt take two own game was microtransaction in the video He was talking about why take two whether it's rock star whether I mean you could see the references to NBA 2k does very similar things Evolved remember when that flop because it tried doing very similar things take two is one of the only Companies in the gaming industry that can use like egregious microtransactions like we see in 2k 18 17 16 15 and Everybody just gives him a pass when EA does it they get battered for it when Ubisoft used to do stuff like that They used to get shredded for it, but take two always seems to get away with it I was watching the video I just came to the realization like as as furious as some people were with NBA 2k 18 and the microtransactions Literally people when they were rating the game they were like yo the game is Solid aside from the very boring and gray colors, of course in the obvious server issues Let's not forget the server issues But the reason a lot of people were giving 2k 18 poor reviews had nothing to do with the actual game It was just the microtransactions I thought that might motivate 2k to to maybe see that they don't need to spam it We seen games like Fortnite dominate make a ton of money without spamming it and making the game pay to win But after watching that video, I went into a depression and realized that there's probably gonna be worse microtransactions In NBA 2k 19. That's my prediction. That's my official prediction. It just seems like either he's right Take two always gets away with it. Who's to say they won't for NBA 2k 19 on our next story of the day There's been a very interesting development, especially in the my team community Players like cash and Los Polos a lot of people coming back in playing my team and it's kind of been motivated by a Common denominator that common denominator, of course is new content Ronnie 2k has been dropping locker codes out the ass I even got one because a pink diamond rose leaked and some of DMed it to me I was like, yeah, don't tell nobody I put in the code I got myself a freak and now I might even want to try my team as pay to win as that game mode is So it's been a lot of large creators coming back and playing my team and or team up and people Kind of just been getting hyped about it that on top of the fact that 2k has been dropping Quote-unquote new content new cards for my team literally every few days There's been new cards coming out and people beginning getting excited about it If you look through Ronnie 2k's replies in every tweet is people begging for locker codes or asking What a specific card is gonna come out So it's been interesting to see on a game as dry and dead that a lot of people are coming back like yo We're really playing this now people are selling out a lot of money just opening packs trying to get back involved with my team And to me this really just means one thing what I tell you all about new content I mean, I know they knew they didn't need me to sit here and tell him, but you make new content It's fresh people are enthusiastic about playing the game Very very simple formula ladies and gentlemen for our next story of the day All right, so I don't want you to tell anybody that I told you this But I've heard it from so many people now and the whisper is within the community like it's growing and growing Here's what I heard allegedly, but it's verified But it's also alleged that private matchmaking in Pro-M is confirmed for 2k 19 That's what I heard from multiple people from multiple people and Everybody's been playing team up recently. I even hopped on team up to troll cash If you missed the video I'll leave a card above in the link in the description But we're what is team up really right wouldn't people want to rather use their own jump shots on their own design players That look the way they want them to that have the features the height the wingspan They want them to wouldn't people rather have a specific archetype that they enjoyed playing with then playing team up if they bring Allegedly, okay, if they bring private matchmaking confirmed, okay The 2k 19 Pro-M will blow up I have no questions about it as long as the servers can keep up We don't want we don't have that east-west issue. We had last year Pro-M is gonna be Massive it's kind of sad that it seems like fortnight is gonna come out with a private matchmaking mode before 2k does It's like come on 2k. Yeah, I'm making so much money right now We really shouldn't have a problem or a free-to-play game is beating just beating it to the chase All right on our final story of the day. Do you guys remember like a month ago? Maybe two months ago. I announced in one of these fake bootleg drama alerts that NBA Playgrounds 2 was canceled Usually when games are canceled, they're never really called canceled They're called delayed and when they're delayed they usually give a future date So if the game's supposed to come out at August 6, it would be like there's been a delay The game will now come out December 25th. All right, usually that's exactly how it works But it seems like we haven't really heard any new information from NBA Playgrounds 2 And so I saw a tweet about it and I just thought to myself It's been a minute since I heard some information I put out some googles to see if I can find anything and there seems to be some dead silence about the game Which doesn't look it which likely might mean and as time goes on will be more and more likely the NBA Playgrounds 2 is Probably just canceled is probably not delayed It might not come back in the future and nobody knows why the game looked like it was almost complete and or fully complete It's a very odd decision to go through all of that development Especially all the new features they were talking about and then to just to just not come out with the game I mean, I'm just thinking off the top of my head The only possible reasons I would do that if I was their dev team is one the game played so horribly bad And was so very horribly optimized that it was gonna destroy the credibility of the developers to pre-order sales were Absolutely horrible and they feared that their game was gonna flop If they're game flop it might be more challenging in the future to go to investors and be like yo We're a sure shot. We put out this game and it bang the investors can be like yo But how about the game you put out after that that shit flop? We won't trust you with our money to I don't know Maybe who knows I'm just I'm just shooting here or three This is all just like one big prank and I can come back at April Fool's April 1st with a launch of NBA Playgrounds 2 I don't know But yeah, it's not looking good for the game if you were excited for it There's plenty of reasons to not be now. So that's about all the news there is I'm sure over the next couple months We're gonna start to hear some absolute heat. Hopefully see some gameplay 2k might even throw an event or two Maybe show up to Gamescom this year. Maybe show up to their own event. Who knows and until then I'm gonna catch you guys in the next video if you haven't already dropped a like and a click on that little bell When you subscribe on the channel if you haven't done it already just click the button All right, it takes two seconds. 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