 If you're thinking to yourself, I'm out the loop. I haven't heard anything about 2K, no update, no patches, no nothing in a minute. You're not the only one. Nobody has. NBA 2K devs went ghost, and at a time where we probably need them the most, NBA 2K21 next gen is in the state of utter disaster. It's not fun to play, and a lot of content creators and players alike are hopping on current gen NBA 2K20 to fill the time. There's a lot to fill you guys in on, some new news, whole lot of drama. Let's get into it. First things first, if y'all do to the channel, be sure to subscribe. I get so excited when people subscribe to the channel. Ah yeah, just do that real quick. NBA 2K developers went ghost, at a time where we probably needed them the most, and I've never seen them do it like this before. The community managers, their promo and the mayor voting, and all the stuff that they're supposed to be, but the actual developers that create the game, we haven't heard a single thing from them, not we're gonna fix this in the next update, not when the next update is gonna come or whether or not there ever will be a next update. I almost expect when it hits like April, May, June that they're focused on the next game, and so I'm not expecting a crazy amount of communication and updates about the current game because the next one is on the horizon. But they went ghost in December this year, and not just in December, but at a time where the game just wasn't fun to play. Everybody's just flashy passing and fading every every two seconds. It's just this right here. Like I have no motivation to get on and play the game when it's being played like that. And so you would think like it don't take much for somebody to do some kind just a tiny little update to make it fun again. There's a Twitter account that's been keeping people posted on how many days has been since the last update. It's officially been 50 days since the last next gen patch, NBA 2K21. And he followed up with a pretty clever meme, me getting escorted from the 2K headquarters after I broke into patch fading. Objectively good meme. That's a nine and that's a 10 out of 10 me, man. Based off the way that the 2K devs were talking at the launch of NBA 2K21 next gen. I almost expect them to have something like the city, but with improvements in the next iteration of the game. So I don't think the city is going away anytime soon. So what can they focus on? Well, I'd argue making the game play fun and enticing to grind, get better on and play. But that's a very difficult thing to do when the community says one thing here and the other thing here and another thing there. But there's some things that the entirety community agrees on right now that needs to be fixed in the game like shooting fades every fade man. I hop on man. I'm watching people stream the game every time it's a fade bro. It's a fade from everywhere man. And I could tell the ties were changing because people were doing wagers on 2K21 current gen. Then I saw some people going back to NBA 2K20 current gen 20 guys. I'm talking about the fucking game from two years ago. Davis put out a tweet saying, do you know how down bad we are to say we're going back to 2K20? Cold man tweeted saying there are literally people saying 2K18 is better than 2K21 like bro stop. That's that's to have that opinion. I don't think you should ever be allowed to have opinions again. 2K18 will always be the worst 2K of all time. It would take a monumental effort to make anything worse than that. And then Joe knows without a tweet saying NBA 2K21 is fun as still. Would it be a bad look for the community to just stay there all year? Nope. I've been streaming it daily, saw a denil on it yesterday. It's so fun to play, especially when comparing it to what's available right now. Hey, I've been doing this gaming stuff for a minute. Let me tell you, a lot has happened in the Call of Duty community before when they dropped bad products and the whole community was like, we actually don't want to play this. So what we're going to do is play the one from two years ago because it's more fun. This is the first time and I've been doing 2K content for a very long time. I've ever seen the 2K community do this. And the biggest difference of it all is that they're doing it on a console jump year. You would think with the console jump, there's so much new that there's no way you could be bored of the game. But with zero communication about when the problems of the game are going to be fixed, you almost start to lose hope. And so people did and people are going back and playing the old game. I'm going to try it just to see, but I'm not going to lie to you. I really wish the 19 service was up because I think everybody would be on 19 if it was up. Dignify says if 2K20 has a new neighborhood and stage and hop steps were like how they are on current gen 2K21, it'd be the best 2K ever in my eyes. Personally me, I think that's wrong. But it just goes to show you the mindset of like, we don't want to do this right here. And if 2K, you want people to play the- My bad. Yo, what people to play the next-gen version of 2K20 on, you have to give them a reason to play, man. And that comes with just updating your game, talking to us about when the next updates can come. What is it going to address? And it's not just on the city side of things, man. We just saw Kenny on the MyMBA side of things just lose hope because basic things like start today weren't working. Simulations for a long time just weren't working. You'd seem in the game would just crash. Across the board, this game is like the opposite of polished. It's rough around every imaginable edge and every good idea they came with was just executed poorly or just mediocrely. And in a year where everyone was just trying to expect greatness out of the game, no one's going to settle for mediocre, let alone poor. And of course, there's more going on because the problems didn't end there. Why would they? There was a new problem. Not, well, I don't know how new it is, but it's come to everybody's attention recently, that there's a loading screen glitch, kind of like how the Paul George loading screen glitch happened in 2K17. But this year, on next-gen with NBA 2K21, which is crazy because they boasted load times and just give me, you don't even have to wait for load times, load times, load times. We heard about load times so many times. Stacks put out this tweet on Twitter saying, am I the only one that can't play 2K? I've been looking at Xeon for almost an hour. And then I saw a lot of people report having the same problem where the game just wouldn't load. People didn't know what to do. Why is the game not loading? Why is it taking a century for it to boot up five minutes for the game to start up? Just to get off the Xeon Williams loading screen? iPod King Carter came to the rescue because he put out a tweet explaining how to fix it. How to fix the PS5 Xeon hanging screen, save 2K21 storage data to the cloud, delete the 2K21 app, and then stop right there. Go outside, breathe some air. I'm kidding, he continued. Download 2K21 boot game, close 2K21 app, download cloud data to storage, boot game so much faster now. Load all my saved micro files one by one and quit. The fact that anyone has to go through any of this just to play a game is crazy, So then you might think, oh no, 2K is going to fix that. They didn't fix it in 2K17 for months. It was like four or five months of just getting worse and worse and worse before they finally fixed it in 2K17. We don't know that the devs even know this situation exists, let alone whether or not they intend on fixing it. So everyone's just assuming that this is what we're gonna have to do when we want to load up the game moving forward. I almost get the vibe that 2K kind of just gave up. They didn't like the reaction people had to 2K21 next gen. Maybe it didn't really sell that great compared to the current gen version of the game and they're like, hey, let's just focus all our efforts on making the next game good because the current one has no hope. That's a very decent possibility because to start hearing Radio Silence two months after the games, it wasn't even two months because the next gen consoles came out when? November 12, 2020. So for the devs to go Radio Silence about a month after the games launch, to not hear anything about the game even though there's things people are begging for them to be fixed. To me is wild. And I get that there's a lot going on and the devs working from home and they probably are understaffed when working themselves to the brink of death I could only imagine. They came out with the current gen version of the game, had the 2K beach and all of that, and then all the new gameplay features and city and now new modes and I get how that could be overwhelming. Jukon Prom, I f***ing get it man. But I don't think there's any excuse for what we've experienced as gamers in NBA 2K 21 next gen. I rank it top five worst gaming experiences and it's only really rivaled by like games like No Man's Sky who just blatantly f***ing lied about the possibilities in their game. And so until we hear something from 2K, it sounds like people are enjoying playing the previous versions of the game more. The news didn't end there because the NBA 2K League Combine exists and people are trying to play the game professionally for a living. I'm not gonna lie to you, I am so out of the loop with this Combine that I saw a tweet about it some days ago and I was like, what the hell is going on? Anyway, Dirk put out a tweet saying best of luck to everyone competing in the Combine, awesome to see how this new draft eligibility system has worked this year and how soup the Combine now is. Get out there, ball out, have some fun, not everyone gets taken such a unique experience I'll be watching. So some people that want to play 2K full time because they don't like living life, they get a chance to do it. On a non-trolling note, I do think it is a brilliant opportunity to be able to just play video games full time as a dream for people. It's difficult to get to the tippity top in any game no matter the skills gap. The more RNG, the more random, the more difficult. The more skills gap, the better you have to be, the more difficult. So good luck to all the people competing. I hope you guys make it. And once you do make it, that's the start of your journey, buddy. Don't lose it. A lot of people just got complacent season one, season two. Let it get the best of them. Now they're out the league. LD2K put out a tweet about it saying, seeing so many lives changed through competitive 2K and the NBA 2K league has been so incredible to me. Glad I always pushed for it. Good luck to everyone, current pros and aspiring competitors alike. I can't imagine that we're not going to hear anything for the duration of this 2K cycle. That would be absolute lunacy. It's possible that there's just a lot that needs to be changed and the 2K devs are working on it and they're just going radio silence because whenever they have to say anything, it usually comes with some kind of negativity because the game is fucking bad right now. That's what I'm hoping. The optimistic part of me hopes that there's a patch in the work or maybe it already got sent out and they're going to surprise us with a tweet or a Facebook post with all the patch notes detailing how they've saved NBA 2K 21 next gen from impending doom. That's what I'm hoping we hear at some point in the next few days. But until then, I guess I'm just going to have to keep updated on whether or not they can do 2 months without a patch. That would be a career hire for the dev team. And who knows man? A lot of people are arguing that the game is unsavable and so maybe they agree. That's been it for the updates ladies and gentlemen. Y'all new to the channel you haven't already? Be sure to subscribe. I talk a little bit about all the problems plaguing NBA 2K 21 next gen here in this beautiful documentary. Appreciate y'all for watching that man. Hit a million in 5 days which is mind blowing to me. Thank you guys for all the support. I'll catch you guys in the next one. I'm out. Peace.