The day after the NBA Finals had been over, I discovered myself compelled to play some MyTeam. Listed below are the the reason why:
- There was a basketball void that wanted to be crammed because it slowly sunk in that Sport 6 was the final NBA sport till October.
- Kyle (former Houston Rocket) Lowry obtained a freaking galaxy opal card, and I needed to have it.
- The LeBron James Signature Collection playing cards had been launched, and I needed to open some packs. (As a result of inevitable LeBron market crash, I figured I might decide up that new throwback opal Larry Chook for an affordable worth.)
The joke was on me although, as MyTeam was unplayable and nonetheless stays spotty (with the Public sale Home being particularly disastrous).
Not solely can I barely get into the mode, however once I do, I actually can’t do something.
Clearly the servers have been a problem eternally, however I’m guessing the metaphorical ocean of gasoline was the sale 2K ran on the sport ($3!), then the fireballs that exploded in that ocean had been objects 1, 2 and three as listed above, PLUS pink diamond T-Mac and Anthony Davis.
Everybody needed to play over the weekend to attempt to earn these playing cards, however not many individuals might. As I’ve talked about, I’m not an enormous on-line man, however I nonetheless would like to spend some high quality MyTeam time. I’m having hassle placing collectively a lineup and enjoying an offline weekly problem sport, amongst different issues.
It’s all a large number.
If I purchase packs, I get kicked out and must re-open the identical packs eternally and ever (and ever). Or, if I need to work the public sale home, there’s a “Gone Fishin” join the place playing cards ought to be. Like typically there are actually no outcomes. Or if there are outcomes, there’s a bizarre visible glitch the place you’ll be able to’t see what the present bids are. For instance, a LeBron opal shall be 100Ok with one minute left, however for those who attempt to bid on it, you both can’t bid in time (it occasions out), otherwise you’ll discover out the precise bid is 500Ok — or, there’ll simply be auctions up that don’t exist anymore. Did I point out that it’s all a large number?
Because the weekend progressed, fewer and fewer playing cards had been being put up. I’m guessing that’s as a result of individuals realized all the pieces was damaged and didn’t need to threat their auctions not making any MT. Or, possibly they thought the entire system was down and it was GG till 2K20.
Both approach, that is unacceptable.
The factor that actually irks me, although, is that 2K is within the enterprise of making a living, proper? Effectively, when LeBron packs are launched, individuals (like myself) need to spend cash. However we will’t. So 2K is actually screwing themselves out of (I’m wildly speculating right here) tens of millions of microtransaction {dollars} by refusing to repair their server points. I want I might say the joke was on them, however as soon as once more, it’s completely on us. We simply need to play the sport that we’ve invested a lot money and time into, and we need to play it now earlier than it turns into out of date. However I (like many others) are having to stroll away out of frustration proper now.
And once more, that’s completely unacceptable.
How does this get resolved? I’m genuinely asking. How a lot does it price to improve the servers? I actually, actually, need to know. Or if it’s not all of the servers, a minimum of clarify what the scenario is.
Even when we go to 2K Help, that is what we obtained again on June 16:
Unacceptable.
Clearly, I’m a bit offended proper now (and nonetheless a bit of heated even now), and this text is born from that anger. There’s quite a lot of 2K to be performed over the summer time, and most of us don’t need to punt till 2K20, so I don’t see that anger dissipating anytime quickly if these points proceed (as a result of now that college is out, much more individuals shall be on-line).
However, I’ll attempt to depart on a constructive notice.
I wager if 2K made a Tremendous Particular Server Improve Version of 2K20 that was $200 (and even $250), however there was a promise that the additional earnings from that version went to server upgrades (plus some candy candy VC as an apology for all the issues), lots of people would purchase it.
I’d. Would you (maintain giving them an opportunity)? Or is that this the final straw and also you’re switching to Stay subsequent 12 months?