NBA Live 14 producer - "It's been a rough week"

So you knew you made a piece of crap and tried to sell it for $60? That's a big problem right there because it makes it seem like nba live 14 was a hyped up unfinished cash grab

"It's been a rough week"... thats because your game looks like a joke compared to 2K.

I guess this is the new era of EA.. Unfinished games released to the public.

Last year it was Battlefield 3. A sum of 22GB updates released for this unbalanced pile of numerous bugs and glitches... the game was unstable.

This year BF4 and NBALive are both unfinished games.

EA has become so greedy, they simply don't care anymore if their project is finished or not, they just care to hit the holiday markets.

Most comments are funny,you all said competiton was good,but taht is just to EA,and when it comes to 2K,many poeple said "Just go back ,EA""NBA Live should not be pulished",yeah ,so everything EA did was wrong,while 2K was always right

Heres a tip: Hire some fucking people that have a clue about how basketball works to help design your game. Live peaked at 2003, after that it slid rapidly downhill into cartoonland-- more worried about dressing up dolls with Jordans and crap instead of concentrating on the actual game of basketball like 2K did.

I was a *DIEHARD* live fan till 2004 came out and they made the game into a joke where you could come down the floor and make threes from half court on every possession.

NBa 2K blows NBA Live away by a mile. NBA Live is a mess and definitely not worth $60. I bought the game, but after reading the many, many bad problems with the game, I just took it back. Felt it wasn't worth my money. I used the $60 to pay for DR3 instead. Seriously, it took EA 3 years for this crap. Are you serious? Sure gamers we're expecting to be as good as NBA 2K14, but we were hoping it was at least close to that level. It's back to the drawing board for EA.

They keep trying to stick all these mechanics into a single box and it's just not working, they've been at it since the 90s... and every new release is the same thing with slightly better graphics, NBA Jam was a fun game that worked (exactly because it was so simple)... all these attempts at simulation don't work, the AI players will never behave in a realistic fashion until we actually develop true AI. There really is no need to release the same product every year or couple years (like pretty much all sports games are) instead take the time to make one (I'm not asking for much am I?) game that actually works well and is fun to play, take three years, hell take four, but deliver something that's worth the time and the money, not this same crap every year.

"We realize that every single one of you is a new user and know we need to make the game easier to understand and simpler to pick up and play," he said.

EA Sports will hold a series of live streams over Twitch that aim to help teach gamers how to play NBA Live 14. In addition, producers and designers will be online seven days a week to answer questions and provide advice.

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That's basically like saying, "We're sorry that you're not enjoying the game. It's not that the game is bad, you're just too stupid to understand why it's good."

Well played, EA...

The only thing about Live that beats 2k in my opinion is the presentation. I really like the menus in Live but other than that 2K has them beat in everything else

The fact that they are at least trying to make it better is a good sign. I went with NBA 2K14 on PS4 because they were releasing video and people kept talking about how beautiful it was, not to mention I rented it on Xbox 360 and loved it, and they kept this one pretty secret right until release. I figured there was a reason, and I think I was right. Hopefully they'll take all the good ideas they had and give 2K some competition. Just like Xbox needs PS, I think NBA 2K needs live around to keep pushing them to improve as well. Glad they are aknowledging the game's flaws and being proactive about it.

NBA Live has stopped being relevant since NBA Live '04 on the Ps2 and Xbox Original.

That is 9 YEARS AGO.

Let is die already.

You can't polish a turd.

If its in the game, its in the game

Been playing 2K series games since the Dreamcast... nuff said. They've had 12 years to make a better game.

"You Should Not Have Come Back....."

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Madden is equally as bad, they just have no 2K football to show everyone what a great game should be!!!

... EA heads had a meeting and came out of it saying they wanted to make better games... since then I think they've actually made worse games (aside from Sim City). Getting silly. I hope they don't completely trash the Star Wars license.

Not a chance in hell that live will ever best 2K, they should just give up (again). Now just to convince the madden bots to not buy EA's shitware and get 2K to come back and shame madden like they did in the past.

The whole game needs to be designed from scratch EA! The game play is just broken in my eyes and to be honest this doesn't feel like basketball....it has no soul! I'd be quite happy to see the NBA license stay exclusively with 2K, they just get it!

Gameplay, visuals, animation, and control are the heart and soul of any game. Who cares about Live Season and Big Moments if the core game sucks ? While Sean's apology and contrition is appreciated, how in the world can he justify shipping a game that is obviously sub-par in nearly every key area, and far below the EA standard ? If he knew that "drastic and immediate improvements" would be necessary, why did he ship it in the first place ? It’s completely inexcusable to rush out a game like this in order to boost sales by taking advantage of new console launch marketing momentum and the holiday season. Andrew, Peter, it's high time that you got your NBA house in order.

These look like improvements you would make to a beta. Do them before you release the game. This shows how well you test your games. What, you didn't notice that the defense ai doesn't move when you have the ball?

lol this guy from EA is basically saying "sry you dont know how to play our game retards." -EA guy

if they are even able to make this better as it goes on, that would be nice and also make 2k's even better.

2K is far more superior but it would be cool to have ESPN/CBS/TNT broadcast style like EA's ESPN. I can't wait for Sony to send me my PS4 replacement!

Inb4 they monopolize NBA license so they don't have to compete with 2K.

i figured they would put out a texture pack to up the graphics. as for the gameplay, thats going to be a big patch lol.

Don't call it a comeback........

Worst comeback lmao

NBA 2K is so good, i dont even know how they are going to catch up to it. You can tell 2K 's focus is to try and make the game as close to a real life broadcast as possible, whereas EA is still trying to make a good game. But us the audience are way beyond that now. We have seen that its possible to make a game almost like a real life broadcast and we like it.

i have to say, if hes been making NBA Live for 10 years, it might be time for some new blood. There's a reason why John Carmack left, he had a conflict of interest with bestheda over DOOM. Sometimes games need new developer blood and Live needs new developer blood. but then i dont really care. NBA 2K is so good, that im kind of glad EA has lost out on a sports title. I hope we see some NFL competition eventually to. having such good competition in NBA 2K cant be bad for a developer. Tons of stuff to compete with for the future. FIFA ripped off most of their stuff from the original Pro Evo games. FIFA is good now , because Pro Evo was so damn good in the past.

Even the game cover looks crappy

"We hear loud and clear that some of you are disappointed in various aspects of NBA Live 14, and I'm sorry if the game doesn't live up to your expectations." Some are disappointed? Try most are disappointed.

This isn't a problem that can be solved by simply updating the graphics. The game needs a complete engine overhaul and should be rebuilt from the ground up. I know that making games isn't easy but I still have no idea how Sean O'Brien needed the public to tell him that this was an extremely poor effort. There's a reason that this is the first NBA Live game in years and amazingly none of the issues that plagued previous entries in the series have been fixed despite all of this time off. The only answers I can come up with as to why this game was even released in its current state are that O'Brien never even played the finished product himself or that he just didn't care... and I really hope it's not the latter. All he needed to do was look at NBA 2K14 and then look at NBA Live 14 to realize that the latter isn't even close to a finished product.

I downloaded the demo of this game for PS4. Upon starting it for the first time, it prompted me to login into an origin account. As a result, I exited and deleted the game.

This review makes me feel bad for EA. They have some interesting ideas but I don't understand how playability can ever be sacrificed for other modes and features.

First step is admitting your mistakes, second step resigned!

Its really quite sad that EA cant even begin to offer a decent sports game that is able to compete with the 2k ones when they are one of the largest and most successful video game companies. I mean man if 2k were still allowed to do football games madden probably wouldn't even exist anymore.

After getting burned badly by NBA Live in the past I knew better than to take this sh*t home.