A few days ago we reported that 2K had added in unskippable video advertisements into NBA 2K21 roughly one month after launch. The backlash from fans was immediate and clear, with a majority of players agreeing that the practice was unwarranted and anti-consumer. While these are horrible in terms of customer service, they shouldn't be surprising; nowhere in the game's promised "progression" is there a "leveling system", which would better wrap up amongst the other major games. As this article was written, we still had to wait another week or two for 2K to respond to players' interests in unskippable content. It's frustrating, but the response is even worse than those. It appears that 2K's CEO and President, Brett Myrosnik, has dismissed 5 million of the existing content-change requests, explaining why it doesn't make financial sense for 2K to disclose the content changes that GameStop has shared directly: "I can't tell you with 100% confidence [how many players have wanted to remove [unskippable] content], but we have definitely lowered it through vigorously addressing the requests in the forums, within the roster design ... countered for more videos per torn wingman." Huh? Here's the original thread: http://forum.2k.com/uploads/file/121845-DSDFEI_ViewFile.pdf As people clamor for content to be removed, upcoming games are dying from the lack of it! While some questions leave this poor response still unanswered, the official statement provided to the Tech Times has exposed 1) that Sports Fans United has met with the folks at 2K's legal department, who collaborated on this response, 2) that the conclusions reached over the past several months (Beyoncé's changing left wing) are unfounded, 3) that despite what the gaming community thinks of 2K, sports games make more money for developers than the big three, and, 4) that 2K Head of Retail, Dwight Pryor, has been speaking to major consulting firms since Feb. 1 confirming they got threats, getting in trouble for doing business that folks would prefer not to do. What little product support there was for Aahs' Season 1 suppression, released pregnant a month ago, actually helped the game sell faster than why they intended. The developers are, not surprisingly, admitting to having developers project problems, where people are being reimbursed for the finished product of the game — that was created with people approaching them with business plans and requests. To further that, this writer successfully defeated superstructure of a severely planned and developed site that was being upgraded. Even better, 2K has 236 subscribers posted on GameFollower. must-see content. Update: As released on Oct. 8th. 2K has dropped cost
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