the mycareer cpu back then was actually skilled on offense , so when they scored it was like “damn i’m getting cooked” now they just make smothereds over and over
to add to that , the cpu defensively back then actually reacted like human , you could set them up and blow by them/ get a open shot to score , now they’re just glued to you and you HAVE to have strength to score consistently, if not your getting clamped regardless of build/attributes
That’s facts, I feel bad for any new or casual player that picks up 2K cause there’s no way they’re getting open in MyCareer unless they’re on rookie 😭
@@Nayeem4Kyou're supposed to play 5 minutes quarters and ball out then intentionally foul 5 times to make the game even shorter and still get 1600 vc, stop spreading bs lies lil man, its why your channel will continue staying dry, not only that but u can get close to 7k vc every hour by playing disco at the street courts, you will continue being a lil man
All the content creators made 2K horrible with their ideas, then get mad when the game is trash. No story, y’all asked for that. Too grindy in career, y’all asked for that too. Kept saying how “we shouldn’t have to play career mode to level up”. So guess what, they stopped making career matter. The game is bad because they tried to accommodate content creators.
@@NNOutBurger_GamingYou asking for 2k to take one mode and split it up into two. That’s stupid. Ppl gon be playing park with 60 overalls unless they pay to upgrade they player, this is a terrible fix
@@1ncognitoooHe lowkey right tho. We get on 2K for not listening to the community, but damn… we don’t give them the credit when it’s due. They listened on some of these things and it turned out to be trash, can’t blame them for listening to what we wanted just because we realized shit is ass.
Dont forget your teammates will purposely run into your path on a drive to prevent a score and bring their man to you. They will run full speed towards and just stop in you path or run across you path just to bring the help defense..
Yeah that’s outrageous, cause that’s baseline knowledge even some HS basketball players would know so for an NBA Player to be doing that makes no sense
That actually happened to me a lot in 2k17. Justice would handoff to me and then run half speed in front of me on my attempted drive. So I was essentially guarded by him, and 2 defenders. Course, Justice coming out of nowhere to steal my asts on fast breaks was why I finally learned directional passing but that is another story. (Not to mention how for an alleged lockdown defender how often I had to bail him out because he couldn't get around a screen or stay with a cutter to save his life)
The reality that is Mycareer is way too tedious and the rewards for playing mycareer are not worth it. Sitting through 20-30 minute game after game of playing the same silly cpu is just not fun. And to do all that for maybe 1k vc isnt worthwhile and 2k knows this. Its all to incentivize you to skip the grind and pay for VC so you can actually get to the fun part which is playing people online. The my career endorsements are tedious and worthless since they dont make any VC. The goat rewards add no new experience to my myplayer. 2k could honestly keep everything the same but offer lets say 3.5-5k vc per game and that would make it worthwhile. Or make the endorsement challenges 10-20k vc and that would be fine. But of course that doesn’t help 2ks ultimate goal which is making money so here we are.
Hopefully they can change for the better 💯, there’s so much untapped potential they could reach, but unfortunately I don’t think that’s their main priority What makes it worse is that some of these things we already had but then they change it for their own gain at the cost of our experience (Like with how much VC we can earn)
indeed, just giving us more VC is the wave honestly, it’s the easiest fix. Tbh tho you can get that if you play on HOF and put up numbers you would on like Pro. If they just make that VC a lil more obtainable it’d be solid, but like you said they a business and doing too much monetary stuff that it’s impacting the fun
I can't stand how the CPU plays in Mycareer they have 500 sigs and the CPU doesn't use ANY of them. They will literally dribble directly into your chest over and over until they get some goofy blow by or just warp past you. They don't do any cool stepback moves and spin shots. They shooters just chuck BS and make it no matter how SMOTHERED especially when the shot clock is about to go out. LAZY PROGRAMMING!! The CPU just hits red contest after red contest..ive seen 100% smothered go in..and your teammates are always garbage nomatter what or who they are. The game cheats so blatantly that it's literally unplayable if you have any basketball know-how.. the only offline mode with playing is MyEras at least you can edit the sliders and negate the cheese but the CPU doesn't use any flashy moves its so boring watching them dribble around like it's 1967. Crappy game design to force you to spend money..
You just made me realize ain’t no way there’s 500 sigs & the CPU hardly even utilizes it 😭 When you compare it to the CPU of other games like For Honor, you’ll see that the AI will do different combos & patterns but it seems like 2K’s AI doesn’t have much variation (In MyCareer atleast)
you explained all my issues with 2k over the past few years, especially about how the cpu's goal is to stop you from getting good stats towards your vc vs actually playing to win the game. it becomes annoying having to pass out of the same double teams over and over, and to have your AI teammates make dumb decisions to prevent you from getting assists or cause you to get a turnover. i miss 2k11 myplayer mode and how the AI in that game actually put up a real challenge, used different defensive schemes on you based on their team roster and matchups (not just spamming double teams). if a team had a good perimeter defender, thats who would guard you, if a team didn't, they would send double teams. also the game wasn't based on microtransactions then, so just doing drills in practice netted you a ton of skill points as it was called at the time to upgrade your player. now everything is geared towards making you lose out on vc, hindering your progress, or just making you take extra long to get the same amount of vc it would take less time in previous 2ks. if this current trajectory continues, by 2k30 , you'll be getting less than 500 vc total for nba games with A+ teammate grades.
I feel like the AI did have flaws in the older 2K’s, but atleast the best perimeter defender would try to come guard you rather than mindless double teams & rotations coming at you all the time
You all must’ve forgot that the community began complaining about MyCareer having more development attention that the park and the original Jordan Rec center. This was one of the first times they actually listened to the community, and began to slowly shift from the MyCareer experience to place more emphasis on the park/city.
I blame the people who were saying “Cut the stories out, I just wanna play basketball” like no. I used to play 2k for the MyCareer stories. 16, 17, even 18, they were all fun to me because of the stories. That, and the grind is just so much more tedious. For me as a casual player now, I can’t be any good because I don’t take the time to grind the way it wants me to anymore.
Shout out to you my bro, I have never seen anyone really speaking on this topic in this amount of depth. I have been playing career and park consistently since 2K15 and I have also seen what these modes have changed into over time; especially post 2K19. There are so many things wrong nowadays and it feels like you are playing 1v9 sometimes, I thought it was just me creating weird conspiracy theories, but the scummy tactics such as grade manipulation and horrible rotations/shot selection from your own team just destroys the experience. I am glad people like you are exposing it, with well put together videos and great commentary. One of my New favourite 2k UA-camrs. Loved the park video too btw!
Appreciate You For Tuning In 🎒💯 and yeah you’re definitely not just creating conspiracy theories, it’s not fair to us when there’s such a high premium just to have a decent experience on the game in the first place
Been playing free to play starting off at 60 overall and I’m only an 80 overall after a full season and winning the nba championship like bruh that took me 2 months only playing 2k after work everyday
Only “tip” I got for MC is to complete the GOAT skill tier stuff. Once you get it to where it activates multiple times a game it’ll reset your stamina whenever it activates.
Please make this into a series. These videos are perfect for the demographic who's joy has faded away with this game. I went from preordering this game without hesitation every year to not buying at all.
You forgot the most important issue - the storyline. The plotline was 2k's biggest advantage over other sport career modes, but it's getting worse every year. The storyline was great in 2k2016 and 17, and last year it was nice, but this year you just need to get ranked in a podcaster's tear list, it's just lame and boring, 2k need to make great mycareer storylines again.
And when the AI is playing defense im tired of running on the court and my player feels like he has string attached to his body to legs from a fast break to short separation from your defender i hope im not the only one
Nah bro u ain't the only one. Like I have an 85 speed why does running up the court on a fastbreak feels like I got a 60 speed, why tf is rudy gobert able to catch up to me that quickly. Shit makes no sense
The changes came when 2k listen to the online park heads. They think it was too easy to get the same reward they got playing in the park. 2k just needs to connect my career back to online rewards
Insecure park heads have slowly turned this game into what we see today. Less fun, more pride and arrogance. Don’t even get me started on these wannabe pro players, pub stomping the rec, complaining about how the game isn’t tailored to them.
That is true (online heads complaining about the rewards being too easy in MyCareer). In hindsight now , I wouldn’t be opposed to it cause a player with mad time to grind rep is gonna do it regardless of if it’s in MyCareer or Online
thank you for the commentary on the 2k scene, its nice to hear someone else put it into words. The corporate greed leeching into a basketball sim is insane
Issue is they took any motivation for playing it, before there was at least a story line to follow for a decent amount of time which helped mask the grind. Then they made it so grinding gives back minimum amount of reward because over the inflating cost of player upgrades and clothing, so why would anyone play it except to just enjoy some time away from the trash issues online
what about the fact that the literal storyline is "the best rookie since LJ" but you start off 60 overall, makes no sense. Online mode is also no fun when you're dogshit, toxic as hell playerbase, you're forced either to a absurd grind or to pay for vc to have some fun
I just finished my carrer as a rookie in 2k24...number 1 defensive player, rockie of the year, finals MVP and League's MVP... When it came to close my deal for renewal, the game sent me straight to the free agent market, didn't even allowed me to stay with my original team... Worst of all, I pretty much had to start from scratch, not even in the starting lineup.
the most annoying part of mycareer is the damn performance colors, these randoms are so terrible it forces u to play w good ppl only, because if yo color drops u playing with only the noobs
The bigger issue is that MyCareer doesn't make 2K money so it's becoming more and more of a sideshow. The fact is that the people who cried to change MyCareer were the sweatlords in the park. Coincidentally, these are also the people that dump cash into the game buying VC, animations, clothes, etc. I played 2K for years, mostly singleplayer in MyCareer because I don't feel like dealing with kids and sweatlords trying to treat a park game like it's the final 2 minutes of the NBA Finals. Until I played multiplayer, I rarely spent money on the game because there wasn't really a big need to. You could grind your first season on easy mode, then crank the difficulty after that season when you got your VC to upgrade. However, with all the crying about 'too much story' and 'MyCareer is too easy', 2K made the singleplayer mode unplayable and instead went all-in on their cash cow multiplayer, riddled with its microtransactions. You can trace the growth of microtransactions and see a direct correlation with 2K's continued emphasis on multiplayer modes that push people to spend money. Give it another few years and MyCareer will be a complete shadow (if existing at all) and the game will be all multiplayer with limitless ways to pay-to-win.
The thing you said about the AI also bleeds over into MyNBA cuz when I get 20 points with a player before half they double like crazy which leads to my other players getting 30/40
It’s so many issues in my career and my park nowadays that I am gone make a full video on it this summer 💯another reason people don’t play 2k anymore is because they force u to buy VC so people just quit I remember back in 2k15 it was 110K thousand VC to get your first 75 upgrades which was from a 60-90 overall and back then u had high rollers which for money hungry reasons never return back in game and in 2k16 it was 140K to go from a 55 overall to a 88 when u max out your player back then u can buy Levels on your badges buy clothes,animations all that and still have VC left over after buying 200k VC nowadays that would barly upgrade your player to a 85 overall and forget about it when u get upgrade overall points after that because u have to buy more VC again better yet buy clothes and animations for him 😭💯my points is VC back when it was first introduce back in 2k13 had enough ways for u earned it that it was a luxury to buy VC it wasn’t mandatory like it is now unless u wanna spend 300 hours on a player which isn’t worth it’s fucked up that da amount of VC u make on Mycareer now is da same amount u made back then but it’s literally quadruple da price for da same shit that’s just da world we living now 💯
The fact that you get less VC from your career then a park always had me confused. It’s like 2k is forcing me to jog around town to just be beat or win for maybe a few more hundred coins. Then they forced us to play as our grandpa and dad was not gonna fly.
There’s a glitch in the cpu, I’m a 7”1 center when you get the Def rebound don’t outlet pass bring the ball up court and drive directly towards the opponent’s PG he’ll pick up on you instead of the CPU center now you are free to back the PG down into the paint and he won’t be able to stop you as you’ll be to big. Rinse and repeat, this works on a HOF difficulty.
hey man, i just wanna say that your videos are great, first 2k videos i seen in a while that’s giving actual good criticism to the game instead of telling to revert back to old stuff that ppl were literally asking to take out during that time 😂😂 i hope 2k actually watches some of these videos and take notes
Spawning into your mycourt right away was amazing. Everything was close together and you didn’t have to run all over. They sold out the og fans in favor of little kids that like the huge city
The biggest issue that I have is that VC is used to make your player better rather than increasing attributes by playing games and practice like all other sports games
I noticed the teammate grade decrease as well. I thought i was trippin and doing something wrong. But you could be right next to whoever your gaurding and the grade will still go down for no reason.
BRO I SWEAR I PLAY WITH GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS IN MYCAREER💯I HAD STEPH & KLAY SHOOTING 100% SMOTHERED & AIR BALLING WIDE OPENS IN THE 4TH QUARTER🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣MYCAREER IS UNPLAYABLE 2 ME💯😮💨
It's worse with the arcade, when you play my career on HOF difficulty, your whole team gets nerfed and the ai gets a huge boost...you'll grind your player to a 97 or 99 OVR and he'll be blocked,stopped, and even posterized by a 75/80 ovr even Andre Drummond can hit a half court buzzer beater
I just think its insane how they actually have some decent ideas like the accolades and goat records to beat and YET they give you *ZERO* VC FOR ANY OF IT. I break the single season scoring record, and I get no VC, I win the in season tournament, and I get no VC. Win the All star Game MVP and you get no VC, it's just ridiculous how taxing the grind is and the incentive is bare minimum. The Badge regression system is the scummiest mechanic i think I've ever seen in a sports game easily, every game instead of playing how you want that game, or to how the game is flowing depending on the other teams defense you have to babysit badges and try get every single type of shot or thing to make sure your badges don't decline. I can't even imagine how it effects online play since I strictly play My Career.
if the 2k team actually "cared" about the community they swear up and down that they "love so much" and "listen to", they would actually take constructive criticism and watch this video because it delves into everything wrong about mycareer in ridiculous depth, it'll open their eyes and maybe, hopefully theyd genuinely try to make it so that something that is supposed to be enjoyable isnt an absolute waste of time and energy, as well as money
as someone who works full time, i dont have the time to play mycareer to upgrade my dude. Im not playing multiple seasons taking probably at least a month or two just to be able to go online with my dude. By the time i get to an overall where i can actually be useful in online, im gonna be burnt on the game because ive played it so much. the only real way to play without getting burnt and quitting for months (or the year) is to buy VC.
Needed to be said and I appreciate the video. As someone who strictly played MC, 2k continued to put all the emphasis on Park because that's where people would like have the most use for their microtransactions. I get that they want to make as much money as possible but it never made sense to require your MC player to go and play a certain number of park games to progress the story. I get that the MC stories were never that in depth and usually gave little past the midpoint of the first season and maybe a couple cut scenes in the playoffs but you can tell the devs just put the mode in more so as a "create a player" for the park mode that a legit self sustaining game mode. Maybe if NCAA gets a new basketball game now that NIL deals are in, 2k will have a reason to dedicate actual consideration to the MC mode in the future rather than just a VC layover
I feel this but a lot of the things you had issues with as far as longevity are actually in the game already so I'm a bit confused. But on the back end when you're talking about how you get the my career points you were on point bro
I just don't understand why MyCareer and MyPlayer/Park/Rec STILL arent separate game modes..... They know they'd miss out on so much money fr. Make it fun for the people who just want pure NBA career simulation bro we shouldn't have to play the same game as people who want to buy VC and left right cheese all damn day on rec
I'm so glad someone pointed out how little VC you get for MyCareer... everyone is all pumped up cos they lowered the price of builds to buy VC BUT THEY MADE IT HARDER TO EARN VC!!! I'm a grinder, so I take my 8th build at 60 overall straight into the REC centre like god intended.
@ZachNovak Facts @ build prices are lower but the amount you can earn is lower also. And good luck in the REC bro 😭 that 60 overall life ain’t for the weak
This why I went back and played 2K17 and 2K12 my career. Sure it’s kinda dated now cause the cpu just be shooting random stuff💀But atleast its fun and doesn’t feel frustrating. Also it’s not repetitive like ofc Lebron’s gonna go off cause its Lebron but you got players like Rudy Gay and Jeff Teague cooking too.
I will say this what 2k needs to do: 1. Stop the green release ( go back to 2k11-12 mechanic make it more about the rating, it’ll stop people from jacking up shots especially) 2. Make the story better and not geared toward the agenda. 3. And make the reward better.
Me seeing karl anthony towns in mycareer unable to finish against a small guard in the paint while the opposing team makes 100% contested shots consistently:😱
i’ve been playing 2k24 myeras. had saved up some vc so i decided to try mycareer out and the first thing i noticed was how different the ai plays. the ai spams double teams like crazy in mycareer vs myeras. 2k league uses a completely different build of 2k as well.
-Get rid of the stamina bar -Get rid of the giant map -Get rid of battle pass -Badges are earned through my-career and are permanent -return rep and or a reason to play the game
I used to play the daily streetball challenge with each build to grind VC but recently the 750 VC stop being added most of the time. Same thing with Gatorade for workouts.
14:00 is crazy lmfao had a magnet on that shot attempt but i haven’t checked in2k24 but “pass to assist”used to pay more than alley oops and flashy passes
i think one great thing they've done with mycareer is the goat status, and the goat perks, or whatever you call them. if you do the in game challenges you get attribute boosts for a certain amount of time. the difficulty bonus just isn't worth it. my best game on all star will get my roughly 1600 VC, my best game on superstar will get me about the same. not sure why they decided to cut the difficulty bonus (well i know why but i dont agree with it 😂) But I honestly think it's kind of a hard thing to balance. Because on one hand, proam 3v3 should get a big multiplier because it's ranked (but maybe it should be dependent on the rank of the team you beat). and mycareer can be pretty easy to cheese, but then it's nowhere near as fun as park/rec/proam, so i think that should also be considered when thinking about vc distribution.
Fair points for sure 💯 it’s definitely a hard thing to balance. In my POV I feel like loading up & playing pro am 3v3 is much less stressful than MyCareer & easier for a new player to adapt to (SB: anyone that sees this can disagree with my point cause there’s a few other ways of looking at it as well)
@@Nayeem4K I don't think proam is less stressful or easier for new players to adapt to. but it's definitely more enjoyable, and i think that should be a massive consideration when determining a fair vc price. at the start of every new 2k i could play online modes for hours, but playing mycareer for one hour straight is straight up torture 😂
The TRUTH why 2k isn’t the same before is simply map layout and design. Before it wasn’t split into 2 (rise and elite) and the courts had a realistic vibe 👀
The grade dropping is the worse me especially when u pass A- u can be doing nothing literally sitting in the corner while your team burns the clock and it’s just start droppin or be up 50 points and miss a free throw and drop a half a grade I got screenshots in my game from just playing on rookie to see the most I could score had 230 points 20 rebounds 20 assist 1 turnovers(last seconds of the game 0fouls missed only two threes nothing else still lost my A+ before it was over
I think the cpu is just dumb. Doubling him in the Shawn clip you showed is right (doubling the main scorer when he’s hot late in the shot clock), but they didn’t double with the right player. The cpu on your team rarely rotate properly, and spacing is terrible. They run into you when you call iso, and they Jack up dumb shots early in the clock.
The one thing I hate about my career is the teammates are horrible like why is Lebron missing a layup on Chris Paul this happened today to me for the game winner for semifinals I know it’s hall of fame but game makes no sense cause there’s no world where Lebron James is missing a layup over Chris Paul 2k needs to make the players in my better cause I know the whole reason of hall of fame is to make you go through hell but it’s annoying watching D’Angelo Russell miss 3 wide open threes 💀💀shi tragic
Oh my god, I knew something was sus with 2k AI. But I had no idea 2k was making them brain dead ON F**KING PURPOSE. That explains it all. That explains why I get double teamed even though the game just started and I have 0 points. Man bruh I really appreciate you making this video cuz I never would've known otherwise
needless to say. NBA2k24 will probably be the last 2k for a lot of people. It will certainly be my last. I spent money for the first time getting to level 40. for the first time and last. The money greed is real. We have literal virtual game inflation. It's a literal copy an paste now
Bruh the mycareer AI has been horrid ever since its inception. Its always been 9v1. You playing against the other team, but also your teammates that are trying to sabotage you.
MyCareer stopped hitting in 2K12. Back in 2K10 and 11, all of the current demigods of today were crying because they were getting put in the dleague for being trash and forced to stay there. You could look up in the forums, people were crying everyday about “I need help” “how do I get out the dleague” “2K made this too hard”. You also got held accountable for playing selfish or not up to par, sometimes demoted to the bench or even GLeague. Now it’s cookie catered to everyone to win as long as you have money to spend.
It’s showing the evolution of corporate greed. 2K will keep grifting their consumers as long as it makes them more money. They need a real competitor like NBA Live or something similar, and fast, to stop them from this bullshittery.
I have played 2k since 2k11 and I have never not one year enjoyed playing my career, but at least some years I do have a reason to play it. This year I have zero reason to play it so I don’t.
They need to bring back the T shirt creator but expand on it and let us make shits, hats, pants. I wanna run my own brand like Lavar Ball. Unfortunately I don't think they'll let you do that because they want to make money from microtransactions instead.
the mycareer cpu back then was actually skilled on offense , so when they scored it was like “damn i’m getting cooked” now they just make smothereds over and over
to add to that , the cpu defensively back then actually reacted like human , you could set them up and blow by them/ get a open shot to score , now they’re just glued to you and you HAVE to have strength to score consistently, if not your getting clamped regardless of build/attributes
That’s facts, I feel bad for any new or casual player that picks up 2K cause there’s no way they’re getting open in MyCareer unless they’re on rookie 😭
@@Nayeem4KI've made 4 builds this year from 60 to 99 by playing my career lil man, no money spent on vc, get like me lil man
@@Nayeem4Kyou're supposed to play 5 minutes quarters and ball out then intentionally foul 5 times to make the game even shorter and still get 1600 vc, stop spreading bs lies lil man, its why your channel will continue staying dry, not only that but u can get close to 7k vc every hour by playing disco at the street courts, you will continue being a lil man
@@1andOnlyKBunemployed? Too much free time? You enjoy that shit 😂
Biggest fall off was when you have to pay for 95+ ovr
Also in the old 2k you could use custom rosters in my career. You can't play my career offline anymore. They ruined it.
It fell off once they introduced VC because that made the game pay to win
@@jumpman2326not pay to win just pay to play
@@jumpman2326^^ yup could grind my player up just through my career before the pay to win
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All the content creators made 2K horrible with their ideas, then get mad when the game is trash. No story, y’all asked for that. Too grindy in career, y’all asked for that too. Kept saying how “we shouldn’t have to play career mode to level up”. So guess what, they stopped making career matter. The game is bad because they tried to accommodate content creators.
Lmaooo bro the 2k community is trash in general. Not just the content creators. How are grown black men too dumb to share a virtual rubber ball!? 🤣🤣
Dawg got beef with content creators 😂
Easy fix is to separate my career and online play have us (the 2k community) have to different players it’s not that hard
@@NNOutBurger_GamingYou asking for 2k to take one mode and split it up into two. That’s stupid. Ppl gon be playing park with 60 overalls unless they pay to upgrade they player, this is a terrible fix
@@1ncognitoooHe lowkey right tho. We get on 2K for not listening to the community, but damn… we don’t give them the credit when it’s due. They listened on some of these things and it turned out to be trash, can’t blame them for listening to what we wanted just because we realized shit is ass.
Dont forget your teammates will purposely run into your path on a drive to prevent a score and bring their man to you. They will run full speed towards and just stop in you path or run across you path just to bring the help defense..
Yeah that’s outrageous, cause that’s baseline knowledge even some HS basketball players would know so for an NBA Player to be doing that makes no sense
I ain’t never had that happen to me😭
That actually happened to me a lot in 2k17. Justice would handoff to me and then run half speed in front of me on my attempted drive. So I was essentially guarded by him, and 2 defenders.
Course, Justice coming out of nowhere to steal my asts on fast breaks was why I finally learned directional passing but that is another story. (Not to mention how for an alleged lockdown defender how often I had to bail him out because he couldn't get around a screen or stay with a cutter to save his life)
You can just call a quick iso on the wing to prevent that.
You shouldn't have to tho. @Johndavidson4
The reality that is Mycareer is way too tedious and the rewards for playing mycareer are not worth it. Sitting through 20-30 minute game after game of playing the same silly cpu is just not fun. And to do all that for maybe 1k vc isnt worthwhile and 2k knows this. Its all to incentivize you to skip the grind and pay for VC so you can actually get to the fun part which is playing people online. The my career endorsements are tedious and worthless since they dont make any VC. The goat rewards add no new experience to my myplayer. 2k could honestly keep everything the same but offer lets say 3.5-5k vc per game and that would make it worthwhile. Or make the endorsement challenges 10-20k vc and that would be fine. But of course that doesn’t help 2ks ultimate goal which is making money so here we are.
Hopefully they can change for the better 💯, there’s so much untapped potential they could reach, but unfortunately I don’t think that’s their main priority
What makes it worse is that some of these things we already had but then they change it for their own gain at the cost of our experience (Like with how much VC we can earn)
@Nayeem4K they don't care because everyone buys vc. It's a business. This is the fault of everyone and anyone who buys vc
This is why I do playnow online
indeed, just giving us more VC is the wave honestly, it’s the easiest fix. Tbh tho you can get that if you play on HOF and put up numbers you would on like Pro. If they just make that VC a lil more obtainable it’d be solid, but like you said they a business and doing too much monetary stuff that it’s impacting the fun
I can't stand how the CPU plays in Mycareer they have 500 sigs and the CPU doesn't use ANY of them. They will literally dribble directly into your chest over and over until they get some goofy blow by or just warp past you. They don't do any cool stepback moves and spin shots. They shooters just chuck BS and make it no matter how SMOTHERED especially when the shot clock is about to go out. LAZY PROGRAMMING!! The CPU just hits red contest after red contest..ive seen 100% smothered go in..and your teammates are always garbage nomatter what or who they are. The game cheats so blatantly that it's literally unplayable if you have any basketball know-how.. the only offline mode with playing is MyEras at least you can edit the sliders and negate the cheese but the CPU doesn't use any flashy moves its so boring watching them dribble around like it's 1967. Crappy game design to force you to spend money..
You just made me realize ain’t no way there’s 500 sigs & the CPU hardly even utilizes it 😭 When you compare it to the CPU of other games like For Honor, you’ll see that the AI will do different combos & patterns but it seems like 2K’s AI doesn’t have much variation (In MyCareer atleast)
@@Nayeem4Kyea it’s weird how different the ai plays in mycareer.
Literally no trophy case 2K 20 had one in the crib. The championship banners don’t even hang when you win them.
not even in mynba either
@@therealjoeyp 🥲
Broo I remember niggas getting clowned in mycourt if they had an empty trophy case smh . RIP
Dude you need to keep these videos . We are listening bro..you speaking what we all feel. Subbed..
Appreciate That Bro 🎒💯 I got yall
you explained all my issues with 2k over the past few years, especially about how the cpu's goal is to stop you from getting good stats towards your vc vs actually playing to win the game. it becomes annoying having to pass out of the same double teams over and over, and to have your AI teammates make dumb decisions to prevent you from getting assists or cause you to get a turnover. i miss 2k11 myplayer mode and how the AI in that game actually put up a real challenge, used different defensive schemes on you based on their team roster and matchups (not just spamming double teams). if a team had a good perimeter defender, thats who would guard you, if a team didn't, they would send double teams. also the game wasn't based on microtransactions then, so just doing drills in practice netted you a ton of skill points as it was called at the time to upgrade your player. now everything is geared towards making you lose out on vc, hindering your progress, or just making you take extra long to get the same amount of vc it would take less time in previous 2ks. if this current trajectory continues, by 2k30 , you'll be getting less than 500 vc total for nba games with A+ teammate grades.
You're basically not lying so: same
I feel like the AI did have flaws in the older 2K’s, but atleast the best perimeter defender would try to come guard you rather than mindless double teams & rotations coming at you all the time
Actually we used to have normal and actual builds unlike today
You all must’ve forgot that the community began complaining about MyCareer having more development attention that the park and the original Jordan Rec center. This was one of the first times they actually listened to the community, and began to slowly shift from the MyCareer experience to place more emphasis on the park/city.
I blame the people who were saying “Cut the stories out, I just wanna play basketball” like no. I used to play 2k for the MyCareer stories. 16, 17, even 18, they were all fun to me because of the stories. That, and the grind is just so much more tedious. For me as a casual player now, I can’t be any good because I don’t take the time to grind the way it wants me to anymore.
I didn’t mean to leave them out, but 14 and 15’s stories were top tier as well.
@@dannyswanger121124 on last gen didn't have ANY story this year. WTF.
Shout out to you my bro, I have never seen anyone really speaking on this topic in this amount of depth.
I have been playing career and park consistently since 2K15 and I have also seen what these modes have changed into over time; especially post 2K19. There are so many things wrong nowadays and it feels like you are playing 1v9 sometimes, I thought it was just me creating weird conspiracy theories, but the scummy tactics such as grade manipulation and horrible rotations/shot selection from your own team just destroys the experience.
I am glad people like you are exposing it, with well put together videos and great commentary.
One of my New favourite 2k UA-camrs. Loved the park video too btw!
Appreciate You For Tuning In 🎒💯 and yeah you’re definitely not just creating conspiracy theories, it’s not fair to us when there’s such a high premium just to have a decent experience on the game in the first place
Been playing free to play starting off at 60 overall and I’m only an 80 overall after a full season and winning the nba championship like bruh that took me 2 months only playing 2k after work everyday
Rip endorsements ☹️
yeah u trash my friend just got the game and is an 81 from grinding 😭
Only “tip” I got for MC is to complete the GOAT skill tier stuff. Once you get it to where it activates multiple times a game it’ll reset your stamina whenever it activates.
Wordd ? I didn’t even realize, imma keep that in mind 💯 Good Looks Bro 🎒
Just happened to me with 2nd tier GOAT skills. I activated it in like the 4th quarter with 2 minutes to go and it refreshed my stamina
Please make this into a series. These videos are perfect for the demographic who's joy has faded away with this game. I went from preordering this game without hesitation every year to not buying at all.
There’s definitely more to come 💯📷 Stay Tuned
You forgot the most important issue - the storyline. The plotline was 2k's biggest advantage over other sport career modes, but it's getting worse every year. The storyline was great in 2k2016 and 17, and last year it was nice, but this year you just need to get ranked in a podcaster's tear list, it's just lame and boring, 2k need to make great mycareer storylines again.
And when the AI is playing defense im tired of running on the court and my player feels like he has string attached to his body to legs from a fast break to short separation from your defender i hope im not the only one
Nah bro u ain't the only one. Like I have an 85 speed why does running up the court on a fastbreak feels like I got a 60 speed, why tf is rudy gobert able to catch up to me that quickly. Shit makes no sense
@@mizzy9870 I Swear to Gd
The changes came when 2k listen to the online park heads. They think it was too easy to get the same reward they got playing in the park. 2k just needs to connect my career back to online rewards
Insecure park heads have slowly turned this game into what we see today. Less fun, more pride and arrogance.
Don’t even get me started on these wannabe pro players, pub stomping the rec, complaining about how the game isn’t tailored to them.
That is true (online heads complaining about the rewards being too easy in MyCareer). In hindsight now , I wouldn’t be opposed to it cause a player with mad time to grind rep is gonna do it regardless of if it’s in MyCareer or Online
The animation in 2k15-17 were just so much better. You see the same animations every time now
thank you for the commentary on the 2k scene, its nice to hear someone else put it into words. The corporate greed leeching into a basketball sim is insane
Issue is they took any motivation for playing it, before there was at least a story line to follow for a decent amount of time which helped mask the grind. Then they made it so grinding gives back minimum amount of reward because over the inflating cost of player upgrades and clothing, so why would anyone play it except to just enjoy some time away from the trash issues online
Grinding to 99 was the dumbest thing they ever did.
what about the fact that the literal storyline is "the best rookie since LJ" but you start off 60 overall, makes no sense.
Online mode is also no fun when you're dogshit, toxic as hell playerbase, you're forced either to a absurd grind or to pay for vc to have some fun
also why did they use that story the year wemby got drafted, it’s so dumb my 65 overall got drafted over wemby
@@egirlegirlegirl fr
Offline is less stressful like mynba only problem is they keep lower player badges every season 😞
I just finished my carrer as a rookie in 2k24...number 1 defensive player, rockie of the year, finals MVP and League's MVP...
When it came to close my deal for renewal, the game sent me straight to the free agent market, didn't even allowed me to stay with my original team...
Worst of all, I pretty much had to start from scratch, not even in the starting lineup.
I want a longer story line not just the first year and then it’s basically over
The amount of VC you earned in 2K would actually be fine if it only took 30K VC to get to 85 overall. These days, it's 250K VC
Those teammates grade glitches have NEVER happened to me. That's crazy. The only problem I've ever had with it is it not updating fast enough.
I misse when you could play my career offline
the most annoying part of mycareer is the damn performance colors, these randoms are so terrible it forces u to play w good ppl only, because if yo color drops u playing with only the noobs
The bigger issue is that MyCareer doesn't make 2K money so it's becoming more and more of a sideshow. The fact is that the people who cried to change MyCareer were the sweatlords in the park. Coincidentally, these are also the people that dump cash into the game buying VC, animations, clothes, etc. I played 2K for years, mostly singleplayer in MyCareer because I don't feel like dealing with kids and sweatlords trying to treat a park game like it's the final 2 minutes of the NBA Finals. Until I played multiplayer, I rarely spent money on the game because there wasn't really a big need to. You could grind your first season on easy mode, then crank the difficulty after that season when you got your VC to upgrade.
However, with all the crying about 'too much story' and 'MyCareer is too easy', 2K made the singleplayer mode unplayable and instead went all-in on their cash cow multiplayer, riddled with its microtransactions. You can trace the growth of microtransactions and see a direct correlation with 2K's continued emphasis on multiplayer modes that push people to spend money. Give it another few years and MyCareer will be a complete shadow (if existing at all) and the game will be all multiplayer with limitless ways to pay-to-win.
The thing you said about the AI also bleeds over into MyNBA cuz when I get 20 points with a player before half they double like crazy which leads to my other players getting 30/40
This is one of the best videos i have watched in a long time. I agree with everything you said 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Literally haven’t played a single my career game this year used to play that shit all the time
It’s so many issues in my career and my park nowadays that I am gone make a full video on it this summer 💯another reason people don’t play 2k anymore is because they force u to buy VC so people just quit I remember back in 2k15 it was 110K thousand VC to get your first 75 upgrades which was from a 60-90 overall and back then u had high rollers which for money hungry reasons never return back in game and in 2k16 it was 140K to go from a 55 overall to a 88 when u max out your player back then u can buy Levels on your badges buy clothes,animations all that and still have VC left over after buying 200k VC nowadays that would barly upgrade your player to a 85 overall and forget about it when u get upgrade overall points after that because u have to buy more VC again better yet buy clothes and animations for him 😭💯my points is VC back when it was first introduce back in 2k13 had enough ways for u earned it that it was a luxury to buy VC it wasn’t mandatory like it is now unless u wanna spend 300 hours on a player which isn’t worth it’s fucked up that da amount of VC u make on Mycareer now is da same amount u made back then but it’s literally quadruple da price for da same shit that’s just da world we living now 💯
The fact that you get less VC from your career then a park always had me confused. It’s like 2k is forcing me to jog around town to just be beat or win for maybe a few more hundred coins. Then they forced us to play as our grandpa and dad was not gonna fly.
There’s a glitch in the cpu, I’m a 7”1 center when you get the Def rebound don’t outlet pass bring the ball up court and drive directly towards the opponent’s PG he’ll pick up on you instead of the CPU center now you are free to back the PG down into the paint and he won’t be able to stop you as you’ll be to big. Rinse and repeat, this works on a HOF difficulty.
One of the best videos about 2k24...all the topics are covered. Respect bro.
That's were they lost me, I thought my teamgrade bar was not going up as it should.
hey man, i just wanna say that your videos are great, first 2k videos i seen in a while that’s giving actual good criticism to the game instead of telling to revert back to old stuff that ppl were literally asking to take out during that time 😂😂 i hope 2k actually watches some of these videos and take notes
Spawning into your mycourt right away was amazing. Everything was close together and you didn’t have to run all over. They sold out the og fans in favor of little kids that like the huge city
The biggest issue that I have is that VC is used to make your player better rather than increasing attributes by playing games and practice like all other sports games
I noticed the teammate grade decrease as well. I thought i was trippin and doing something wrong. But you could be right next to whoever your gaurding and the grade will still go down for no reason.
BRO I SWEAR I PLAY WITH GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS IN MYCAREER💯I HAD STEPH & KLAY SHOOTING 100% SMOTHERED & AIR BALLING WIDE OPENS IN THE 4TH QUARTER🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣MYCAREER IS UNPLAYABLE 2 ME💯😮💨
It's worse with the arcade, when you play my career on HOF difficulty, your whole team gets nerfed and the ai gets a huge boost...you'll grind your player to a 97 or 99 OVR and he'll be blocked,stopped, and even posterized by a 75/80 ovr even Andre Drummond can hit a half court buzzer beater
We used get enough vc to make brand new builds through endorsements, now vc payout nearly non existent
Keep up the great work young brother..... this is the kind of videos people need to watch.....
I just think its insane how they actually have some decent ideas like the accolades and goat records to beat and YET they give you *ZERO* VC FOR ANY OF IT. I break the single season scoring record, and I get no VC, I win the in season tournament, and I get no VC. Win the All star Game MVP and you get no VC, it's just ridiculous how taxing the grind is and the incentive is bare minimum.
The Badge regression system is the scummiest mechanic i think I've ever seen in a sports game easily, every game instead of playing how you want that game, or to how the game is flowing depending on the other teams defense you have to babysit badges and try get every single type of shot or thing to make sure your badges don't decline. I can't even imagine how it effects online play since I strictly play My Career.
The self shoutout at 16:23 is hilarious😂
I had to, it’s only right 😭
They needa just make it completely separate from park like ea does with madden have a story with it and have a separate game mode for park fr
Mmmmm interesting point 💯
Man dude, no lie, every time I see one of your videos I’m so thankful I stopped giving this game any money or focus.
if the 2k team actually "cared" about the community they swear up and down that they "love so much" and "listen to", they would actually take constructive criticism and watch this video because it delves into everything wrong about mycareer in ridiculous depth, it'll open their eyes and maybe, hopefully theyd genuinely try to make it so that something that is supposed to be enjoyable isnt an absolute waste of time and energy, as well as money
as someone who works full time, i dont have the time to play mycareer to upgrade my dude. Im not playing multiple seasons taking probably at least a month or two just to be able to go online with my dude. By the time i get to an overall where i can actually be useful in online, im gonna be burnt on the game because ive played it so much. the only real way to play without getting burnt and quitting for months (or the year) is to buy VC.
Needed to be said and I appreciate the video. As someone who strictly played MC, 2k continued to put all the emphasis on Park because that's where people would like have the most use for their microtransactions. I get that they want to make as much money as possible but it never made sense to require your MC player to go and play a certain number of park games to progress the story. I get that the MC stories were never that in depth and usually gave little past the midpoint of the first season and maybe a couple cut scenes in the playoffs but you can tell the devs just put the mode in more so as a "create a player" for the park mode that a legit self sustaining game mode. Maybe if NCAA gets a new basketball game now that NIL deals are in, 2k will have a reason to dedicate actual consideration to the MC mode in the future rather than just a VC layover
And they took out "good foul" when you made a good foul. Now you get penalized on every foul.
The minute straight of AI selling had me crying 😭
I feel this but a lot of the things you had issues with as far as longevity are actually in the game already so I'm a bit confused. But on the back end when you're talking about how you get the my career points you were on point bro
I just don't understand why MyCareer and MyPlayer/Park/Rec STILL arent separate game modes..... They know they'd miss out on so much money fr. Make it fun for the people who just want pure NBA career simulation bro we shouldn't have to play the same game as people who want to buy VC and left right cheese all damn day on rec
Well made video man. Captured my thoughts perfectly.
I'm so glad someone pointed out how little VC you get for MyCareer... everyone is all pumped up cos they lowered the price of builds to buy VC BUT THEY MADE IT HARDER TO EARN VC!!!
I'm a grinder, so I take my 8th build at 60 overall straight into the REC centre like god intended.
bro u just ruin it for everybody, get the build ready n stop being a bum
@ZachNovak Facts @ build prices are lower but the amount you can earn is lower also.
And good luck in the REC bro 😭 that 60 overall life ain’t for the weak
This why I went back and played 2K17 and 2K12 my career. Sure it’s kinda dated now cause the cpu just be shooting random stuff💀But atleast its fun and doesn’t feel frustrating. Also it’s not repetitive like ofc Lebron’s gonna go off cause its Lebron but you got players like Rudy Gay and Jeff Teague cooking too.
I will say this what 2k needs to do:
1. Stop the green release ( go back to 2k11-12 mechanic make it more about the rating, it’ll stop people from jacking up shots especially)
2. Make the story better and not geared toward the agenda.
3. And make the reward better.
I been playing 2k series since 2K3!
This game has regress heavily since they took over from NBA live!
Me seeing karl anthony towns in mycareer unable to finish against a small guard in the paint while the opposing team makes 100% contested shots consistently:😱
i’ve been playing 2k24 myeras. had saved up some vc so i decided to try mycareer out and the first thing i noticed was how different the ai plays. the ai spams double teams like crazy in mycareer vs myeras. 2k league uses a completely different build of 2k as well.
-Get rid of the stamina bar
-Get rid of the giant map
-Get rid of battle pass
-Badges are earned through my-career and are permanent
-return rep and or a reason to play the game
We need them 2k17 endorsements back
I used to play the daily streetball challenge with each build to grind VC but recently the 750 VC stop being added most of the time. Same thing with Gatorade for workouts.
In my opinion, once it became like 50+ dollars just to get to level 85 instead of it being 20 dollars i stopped playing the game entirely
In my career you do lose more stamina. It refills when you activate a goat skill.
You have great insight into these issues man, keep it up!
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Appreciate You For The Sub 🎒💯I got yall , I def got more on the way 📷
14:00 is crazy lmfao had a magnet on that shot attempt but i haven’t checked in2k24 but “pass to assist”used to pay more than alley oops and flashy passes
Great video bro all facts 💯
I plan on playing NBA 2k14 mycareer with mods on PC, whenever I get one...
i think one great thing they've done with mycareer is the goat status, and the goat perks, or whatever you call them. if you do the in game challenges you get attribute boosts for a certain amount of time.
the difficulty bonus just isn't worth it. my best game on all star will get my roughly 1600 VC, my best game on superstar will get me about the same.
not sure why they decided to cut the difficulty bonus (well i know why but i dont agree with it 😂)
But I honestly think it's kind of a hard thing to balance. Because on one hand, proam 3v3 should get a big multiplier because it's ranked (but maybe it should be dependent on the rank of the team you beat). and mycareer can be pretty easy to cheese, but then it's nowhere near as fun as park/rec/proam, so i think that should also be considered when thinking about vc distribution.
Fair points for sure 💯 it’s definitely a hard thing to balance. In my POV I feel like loading up & playing pro am 3v3 is much less stressful than MyCareer & easier for a new player to adapt to
(SB: anyone that sees this can disagree with my point cause there’s a few other ways of looking at it as well)
@@Nayeem4K I don't think proam is less stressful or easier for new players to adapt to.
but it's definitely more enjoyable, and i think that should be a massive consideration when determining a fair vc price.
at the start of every new 2k i could play online modes for hours, but playing mycareer for one hour straight is straight up torture 😂
The TRUTH why 2k isn’t the same before is simply map layout and design. Before it wasn’t split into 2 (rise and elite) and the courts had a realistic vibe 👀
so true abt the my points limiting thing
The grade dropping is the worse me especially when u pass A- u can be doing nothing literally sitting in the corner while your team burns the clock and it’s just start droppin or be up 50 points and miss a free throw and drop a half a grade I got screenshots in my game from just playing on rookie to see the most I could score had 230 points 20 rebounds 20 assist 1 turnovers(last seconds of the game 0fouls missed only two threes nothing else still lost my A+ before it was over
19:35 that’s crazy g 2k done till they fix they shi
Ode crazy 💯 hopefully they fix it
I think the cpu is just dumb. Doubling him in the Shawn clip you showed is right (doubling the main scorer when he’s hot late in the shot clock), but they didn’t double with the right player. The cpu on your team rarely rotate properly, and spacing is terrible. They run into you when you call iso, and they Jack up dumb shots early in the clock.
make 99 actually 99, if u put your my career “99” stats into a created player it reached 88 or something
The one thing I hate about my career is the teammates are horrible like why is Lebron missing a layup on Chris Paul this happened today to me for the game winner for semifinals I know it’s hall of fame but game makes no sense cause there’s no world where Lebron James is missing a layup over Chris Paul 2k needs to make the players in my better cause I know the whole reason of hall of fame is to make you go through hell but it’s annoying watching D’Angelo Russell miss 3 wide open threes 💀💀shi tragic
Oh my god, I knew something was sus with 2k AI. But I had no idea 2k was making them brain dead ON F**KING PURPOSE. That explains it all. That explains why I get double teamed even though the game just started and I have 0 points. Man bruh I really appreciate you making this video cuz I never would've known otherwise
needless to say. NBA2k24 will probably be the last 2k for a lot of people. It will certainly be my last. I spent money for the first time getting to level 40. for the first time and last. The money greed is real. We have literal virtual game inflation. It's a literal copy an paste now
I thought i was tripping at times when i would notice my grade dropping at random times
Bruh the mycareer AI has been horrid ever since its inception. Its always been 9v1. You playing against the other team, but also your teammates that are trying to sabotage you.
MyCareer stopped hitting in 2K12. Back in 2K10 and 11, all of the current demigods of today were crying because they were getting put in the dleague for being trash and forced to stay there.
You could look up in the forums, people were crying everyday about “I need help” “how do I get out the dleague” “2K made this too hard”.
You also got held accountable for playing selfish or not up to par, sometimes demoted to the bench or even GLeague.
Now it’s cookie catered to everyone to win as long as you have money to spend.
holy shit I knew I wasn’t tripping about the grade just randomly dropping
It’s showing the evolution of corporate greed. 2K will keep grifting their consumers as long as it makes them more money. They need a real competitor like NBA Live or something similar, and fast, to stop them from this bullshittery.
no wonder i am seeing some players playing the old stuff again after all these years....
My career is for nothing but building badges back up lost from playing with randoms 😂
Only thing that good for Mycareer this year is that your automatically in the starting lineup🤷
I have played 2k since 2k11 and I have never not one year enjoyed playing my career, but at least some years I do have a reason to play it. This year I have zero reason to play it so I don’t.
This game has fallen so far😭this shi isn’t even a basketball sim anymore
Back in the day they made u feel good playing career mode. Now days they just add it so u can grind badges
They need to bring back the T shirt creator but expand on it and let us make shits, hats, pants. I wanna run my own brand like Lavar Ball. Unfortunately I don't think they'll let you do that because they want to make money from microtransactions instead.
I forgot which shoe endorsement said “Win an NBA Championship for 2,000 VC” 😂 .
Definitely that Jordan deal 😭 I pick that one on every build just to not finish the season
My career been dead since 2k17 😂💯 grind to 90 straight to park
I seen some folks talking about AI offense & Defense. I think 2k took the whole “AI” thing to literally, it feels like them bots know my every move😂
What happened to Mycourts??? Got 4 Championships and can’t even see my house, gym anything really.