
I don’t know about a piece of human trash, but is it really all that surprising that you would start as a lowly scrub when you begin your career in NBA 2K19? What were you expecting? That you would start out as an 80 overall without doing anything at all? That would defeat the whole purpose of progression and provide little sense of accomplishment for improving. “2K makes you a piece of human trash so you feel forced to buy VC.” To do this, I’ll be using actual comments taken directly from the NBA2K subreddit.

I thought I’d have a look at some of the complaints from the 2K community and analyze the validity of their arguments. But these negative user reviews are so hung up on the idea of microtransactions that they, by and large, entirely ignore how the game actually plays on the court.Īre the microtransactions in NBA 2K19 really so prevalent and unavoidable that they get in the way of actually playing basketball? Suffice it to say, a large group of people are pretty vocal in their hatred of the game. “2K are trying to create a basketball themed online theme park/casino rather than a basketball game.”

“The use of micro-transactions are egregious at every corner VC is required to progress your character.”
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“Don’t buy it! Buggy mess full of micro-transactions!!” “An unnecessary and stupidly-long grind fest…” Here’s a sampling of those comments from Metacritic: While this is not a unique situation when it comes to user scores on Metacritic (many, many games have suffered this similar wide gap between critic and fan scores on there), it’s worth at least looking at the comments and discussing the current M圜areer situation. However, it’s earned a user score of only 2.3/10. Well, a quick look at Metacritic shows that the game currently has an 82/100 score from critics. With NBA 2K19, there was talk of rewarding people more for playing the game and allowing them to level up quicker.

Forced to choose between spending some extra money to better your player immediately or enduring an interminable grind that saw you improve incrementally by playing the game, many felt that the progression from the latter was designed to be such a slog in order to get you to do the former. When The Neighborhood was introduced last year within the M圜areer mode in NBA 2K18, it didn’t take long for people to start complaining about its over-reliance on microtransactions.
