 The first day NBA 2K19 launched I'd say most people in the community agreed there was two things that needed to be fixed the first thing was stealing that was that that was almost unanimous right across the board stealing was incredibly overpowered everybody left and right whether you were a sharpshooter or a lockdown defender with your grand badge was stealing the basketball I know it took him like two months to fix that but they finally toned it down I think it's at a good point where it is right now the second thing was shot contest in NBA 2K19 unlike previous 2ks there's no more automatic contests you have to manually contest that was new for a lot of people and probably the thing that took the most getting used to was the fact that even when you pushed your right stick to contest somebody there was a delay from when you clicked it to when he put his hand up and so last year we got way quicker contests this year we have a longer delay when we're going to contest somebody but that's not the main problem people had with the shot contest the main problem was this if my player is six foot five my six foot five pierced shark was trying to contest a seven foot stretch bit I would have to click triangle to jump at him to defend him properly because if you're playing against a competitive ass player and you don't jump he will hit the shot every single time even if you smother him in his face I had a couple people tell me agent I'm a taller player I should be able to shoot over top you then there will no more guards will exist in the game if you think that's the way it should be because everyone's just going to shoot over top you every single time and there are times where a seven three glass cleaner needs to dunk on a five six playmaker right but when it comes to contesting three-point shots that creates a major issue a major lapse a giant hole in the game in my last 2k drama alert I uploaded I talked about g-scice's tweet and he was basically saying the same thing he was saying at launch he saw the issue and even though he was talking about it he was getting a lot of backlash for doing a few months go by were four or five months into the launch of the game and now everybody is seeing the same issue there was a funny tweet dupe put out that said davis complained about the contest system on shot craters on day one 2k listened and fixed it giving us the shot contest system we have today therefore creating the stretch big everyone hates so basically davis ruined their b2k 19 and while it's very funny to make fun of davis for silly things like the fact that he dropped out of high school that he had a lot of acne on his face you know the usual davis is not even remotely the reason why it is the way it is today let me give you guys a history lesson because I think you guys need it a couple weeks into the game's launch mike wang was super active on twitter he was communicating with the community and you know he was saying hi to this person and we're going to fix this to that person and amongst those tweets was this one of him saying 9 18 mb2k 19 gameplay tuning update tomorrow morning brings a better balance to perimeter buff versus inside nerf shotgun tests for fewer blown layups and less op outside shooting and also a slight reduction in the effectiveness of steals out of body ups and fade away three so mike wang recognized the issue he definitely heard the complaints is a lot of people were saying like my god this many contested shots should not be going in and it wasn't just a stretch big if you remember at launch shot creators were catching the heat too because if you were taking longer to contest somebody because it was done manually and shot creators could just fade in your face regardless it was getting annoying to defend them and the exact moment we realized all we need is a tall player to contest a shot shot creators became obsolete he followed up with that tweet saying if you're already taken smart shots you shouldn't feel much of a difference this update will just help reward good perimeter defense and punish people for forcing contested shots I should probably make it even stronger but I don't want to make any drastic changes now I remember that exact day because me and almost every other youtuber hopped on we're like I we want to see what the differences and so on that specific day everybody woke up tried the game and realized the same thing and we were like Mike come on man a little bit more dude it barely made a difference not one that anybody can notice off the eye so Mike dropped a follow-up tweet saying today's shooting update was a bit too conservative taking another stab tomorrow morning perimeter contest we'll see a stronger buff in park and pro m layup percentages get another boost as well thanks for the feedback Mike realized the same thing it wasn't enough and so what he did was he changed the shotgun test system drastically and for a two-day period the shotgun test system wasn't perfect but it solved the initial issues we were having and as you can imagine once the stretch bigs realized they wasn't shooting over top people anymore everybody was furious the shot creators and the stretch bigs to the biggest ls of all and pretty much every other archetype just took a w off the fact that the other ones were nerf and this was the exact same time many people in the community were saying things like the game was perfect at large stop changing it so much so here Mike Wang is trying to figure out what the best decision to do is people are complaining shotgun test system is broken everyone's shooting over top me shot quitters shooting in my face the manual shotgun test is too slow is what the people are saying and then on the other side they're saying stop changing things too much you can change everything just like you did in previous years you're gonna ruin the game and then we're gonna end up with a shell of a product and so the result of that was just Mike Wang just realized there's no winning no matter what you do there's no winning because the other side is going to complain and literally if you scroll through his tweets he kind of just gave up tweeting he did like one update tweet in December and that was about it all his other tweets are just retweets for park events or NBA 2k league promotion because I get it not everyone is going to want the same thing maybe your definition of a perfect 2k is going to be different than mine or most other people maybe there's something fundamentally wrong with the way that the shotgun test system is and it's not as simple as moving a slider to fix it but I feel like and I'm gonna say this once again this is not the responsibility of the community to get feedback you literally have game testers what are those guys doing I'm curious what they do before launch get those guys out all right and hire people that actually try hard on this game the guys that play my career we need some park guys we need some prime guys because those are the ones who are going to help you make the good decisions man you can't just pick up a qa guy off the street who worked on watch dogs one one supply of time he's not qualified for the position because he's gonna he's gonna play my career and he's getting like oh no the shooting is fine and then when the good players hop on here we are destroying the game they shouldn't be like an active beta test and I know Mike Wang said in the past that he doesn't want to make too many changes to the game because they've done that in previous years especially in 2k 17 but also in 2k 18 and they realize it just ruins the game you can't keep changing the meta of the game every two weeks because another side complaint but at the same time I think we all recognize even the people that have stretch bigs that yeah it's a little too far we need to find a common ground ladies and gentlemen it's not davis's fault it's not any youtuber's fault if youtubers had that much power then the game would be perfect right if I could just make a video like this and everything would change and I had that insane type of influence then the game would be perfect I would never have to make another video angry about 2k because the game would be exactly the way I want it but the reality is the only time we've ever seen a youtuber flex their influence to get something done was I believe in 2k 17 where Hank the tank made a video telling everybody to vote on a poll to make the twos make it take it again because for some reason 2k changed it that was literally the only time I could think of where a youtuber is directly responsible for a change in the game unless everybody is actively disappointed about something there's no way something's going to change as long as it split down the middle it makes no sense for 2k to make a change it's the good is better for them and it's probably better for the rest of the community if we just leave it alone all right that was a little history lesson Mike Wang we need you back my guy I know some people can get angry regardless of what you do but we need to give feedback and the game needs to change and adjust if there's something broken or overpowered you can't just leave it it doesn't make any sense the game is gonna die and we're at unprecedented territory ladies and gentlemen because 2k 17 was a broken game but it was still lit a lot of people played it 2k 18 was just flat out dead this time last year the only interesting thing in 2k 18 for me was pro and a lot of people was just tired of the park the same old regular gray depressing ass park this is 2k 19 man you guys did a lot of things right don't ruin it by letting this game go make this game great man I remember in 2k 16 you guys added a park to rivet city like in the middle of summer or some man you guys are just actively adding stuff instead of saving it and hoarding it for the next 2k and I'm gonna say it in every single video I can ladies and gentlemen the solution to all of these problems is really say with me now to hire more people because if the problem is you got too many people working on 2k 20 then just hire more people to work on 19 or vice versa no matter which way you flex it if you just hire more qualified individuals you will be all right and it's not like 2k doesn't have the money they have I want to say infinite resources you know which money they make every year the budget for the game is probably pretty tiny because they don't have to remake the game they just improve on the previous and each year they make billions and billions of dollars off the game you need to hire more people that's where I want to leave it ladies and gentlemen uh Duke you're wrong uh but I hope we can all find a middle ground as a community man listen ladies and gentlemen drop the like subscribe to the channel click on one of these four no do not put that in my ear tell my higher people tell my higher 2k that's so shocking it's not on bro I did I was behind you but like damn I just hire people guys just hire them bro hire more people qualify people not those garbage ads people EA hires I'm gonna get that clipped up for sure