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NFL and 2K reach partnership (non-simulation games)
- Thread starter KoolAid
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EA deal with the NFL will expire in 2022.
EA has been the partner for 30 years, even if they start a bidding war, EA Sport will obv renew the deal with the NFL again, unless 2K manages to spend more billions to secure the series for themselves.
I mostly hear complaints about the microtransaction model, but I'm not as tuned into sports games as I was so I'm likely missing a big piece of the puzzle here.
Good luck with that, unless it's a really small game akin to NBA 2K Playgrounds that's not gonna happen.
The NFL 2k games were direct competitors to Madden, they were sims.
I'm not so sure there's an appetite for arcade style licensed sports games anymore. Remember in 2012 when EA tried relaunching FIFA Street and NFL Blitz? Those games bombed. FIFA tried adding something like that this year in their Volta mode, but I don't know anyone in their community that plays it.
Maybe I'm wrong and there is an audience out there. If so, great. But it still feels to me like trying to revive a style of game thats appropriately dead.
Maybe I'm wrong and there is an audience out there. If so, great. But it still feels to me like trying to revive a style of game thats appropriately dead.
I don't think I've ever been so hyped and instantly let down down before, damnit man!!! I need that real NFL, not arcade style football ...
I had more fun with NFL Street and Blitz than with any Madden/NFL 2K game. Hopefully 2K will deliver a similar, fun, experience.
True, pretty hard to define what is a simulation and what isn't. Was thinking something akin to NBA Playgrounds or NFL Street but then is the act of just playing the game with those licenses counted as a sim? Or does it only count if they have proper stats or the game rules? God I hate licensing - the pessimist in me is now betting it'll just end up as a match-3 game with P2W mechanics...
Those game were very disappointing which is why I didn't pick them up. I remember Blitz not even having jump throws. LAAAAME.
Why do people trust 2k to make a good sim game anyway after how they managed NBA2k this gen. Sports sims are dead in the age of micro transactions. Bring back arcade sports.
NFL 2k, especially 2k5, was a better simulation then Madden.
That exclusive license (and EA being lazy as fuck) has killed NFL games for well over a decade now.
I doubt we'll get a Blitz style game out of this, as the NFL, due to the CTE/concussion issue, wants to move away from things like this.
Hopefully, with EA's contract ending soon, the NFL moves away from this exclusive bullshit and we can start getting more NFL games.
I miss having games like 2k, Gameday, QB Club.
It might even force EA to pull their heads out of their asses and start making good football games again (something they haven't done since 2005)
I miss having options.
Legit amazing news.
Finally I'll be able to put away my dreamcast and copy of 2k we play money games on from time to time.
Finally I'll be able to put away my dreamcast and copy of 2k we play money games on from time to time.
Panzer Dragoon revival? NFL2K returning? Sonic beats Pokemon at the box office? Shenmue 3 finally released? Yakuza fever?
The world is ready for Dreamcast 2.
The world is ready for Dreamcast 2.
