GamerFitNation writes: Linsanity has taken over GamerFitNation and yours truly. If you have not been following all of the sports hype as of late New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin has been taking the NBA by storm outscoring stars like Los Angeles Lakers Shooting Guard Kobe Bryant, New Jersey Point Guard Dereon Williams and other great players in the league. Why is he so special you might ask and why should you care? Jeremy Lin is down for the lin. (Trust me there will be more cheesy one-liners to come)
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Twinfinite takes a look at NBA 2K12's ads and what makes them so great. Also, Brian Wilson in short shorts...
2K Sports seems to have pulled the plug on its old online servers. Users playing All-Pro Football 2K8, NHL 2K10, College Hoops 2K8 and the year-old NBA 2K12 multiplayer have noticed a lack of online support across the last three weeks.
... pulling the online MP from a game that's only a year old.
The box says it has an online MP mode, and I'm sure people are still playing 2k12 online (probably many people who aren't enthusiastic about the whole Jay-Z layer they vomitted over the game), so they should keep supporting the online MP mode for years to come.
I agree. 1 year is to short. The other gams I can understand since 08 is almost 5 years ago and as for their NHL title....well EA took them out of that genre with EA's NHL series.
Shutting down the servers is going to reduce their overhead costs so I see why as a business standpoint. I read that 2k won't be doing MLB titles anymore as well so expect MLB 2k12's servers to shut down in the year to come.
It's bad enough that we sports fans buy a new sports game every year with minimal changes other then the rosters....now we have no choice if we want to keep older titles to play online. Things like this will lead to more pirating of sports games. Nobody want to be forced to pay $60 for a game and then have the servers shut down a year later giving you no choice but to buy the next $60 game. People are going to look for other ways around having to pay full price for a new game because their money for the current game didn't stretch out for more then a year.
That is real cheap on the part of 2K sports..I'm sure many people enjoyed playing 2K12 online and it just came out last year...
Why is this not illegal? When are games going to be treated seriously by the law? If this happened with anything else, people would be up in arms wanting blood.
I think the only fair thing to do is that when people buy these games, included in the sticker price is a bond. After the servers shut down, 2K (in this case) have to pay them the bond back, whether it be bank deposit or game credits.
I think next-gen developers are going to be doing this to many more games. It basically forces you to buy the newer one. Why people still buy these games is outstanding. Have they no freaking morals?
Not sure but I think the back of the box says they can disable the online part anytime..
I was going to buy 2k12 this year and play it online haha.
I think one year is absurb. The typical console server shutdown is 2 years, but hey on PC I can run my own server for any game anytime.
I can see him gracing the cover on Asian versions of the game but I dislike the idea that he gets chosen over more established and more proven players worldwide.
This Jeremy Lin crap is starting to piss me off
The smartest thing 2K can do is put Lin on the cover
no way should he be chosen over The MVP derrick rose
When the Heat win the title this year, and LeBron shuts up all the critics when he makes up for his disappearing act in last years finals: He should be the face of 2k13, in fact the three kings of MIami: Bosh, Wade, and Lebron should grace the cover. For whether people like it or not this teaming up of superstars will continue, and the model is being repeated in other cities:
1) New York: Stoudamire, Melo, and Chandler. But now it looks to be Lin as # 3
2) Lob City West : Blake, CP3, and Deandre Jordan will be good enough to make the trivumverate.
3) T-wolves: Rubio, Love, and Derrick Williams
And interestingly enough we have the Dallas Mavericks who at one time criticized the Heat for tanking seasons, and playing b-ball with a bunch of scrubs so that they had enough financial flexibility to get Lebron and Bosh over are doing the exact same thing this year. For, after winning the title, they got rid of important pieces of the team: Barrera, Chandler, and Stephenson. By doing that they will have to make one more move-dumping Shawn Marion to have the cap space to get both Derron Williams and Dwight Howard to team with Nowitski to form their own triumverate in Big D.