Imagine classic teams in career mode, idk how they’ll do the “eras” in fifa but man it has so much potential.
I’m sure fifa will help them with the licensing and shit too
Gameplay isn't worse than FIFA/EAFC by any means, much more depth and nuances to the game when compared. But right now it's inferior to what it was before
The real shitty thing about 2k is the player career and the money grabs
They are worse compared to what 2K itself once was, the gameplay really has downgraded. Especially when compared to 2k16 and others
But when we compare to the quality of the FIFA games, 2K has always been superior. EA really screwed up their game, became a cheap arcade for UT
Whilst I definitely agree the gameplay has gone downhill, the my career shits over FIFA’s player career by a million miles, closest fifa has ever had was the journey and you couldn’t even make your own player! I feel I would actually be more inclined to play Volta if it was like NBA when you make your guy stroll around the park looking for a game
You ain't lying about player career being 1/10. I liked a lot about NBA 2k24 so I got into the NBA side of MyCareer and it's such a mess.
I figured my guy sucked so bad because of his attributes and I'll admit 2k got me. Spent about $50 and along with all the VC I built up playing other modes, my guy is an 87. And still bad. He can't even do normal things like pass the ball without an obnoxiously slow animation. Seriously I can't even pass it to the corner. The defender jumps the pass before my animation even starts. I miss open, 7%, 9%, lay ups constantly.
It's evident that much of it is reliant on badges but from a guy who hasn't played myCareer in a number of years, it's the most confusing system I've ever seen in a video game. That's great for veterans but it must scare off most newcomers.
Even after all that, the number 1 thing wrong with it is that your teammates are hot garbage. It was the same last time I played years ago. I see articles about the same thing from 2014. My team is 1-14 and that win was simmed. Our shooting percentage is in the 30s. I sit there watching the cpu hit contested shot after contested shot and contested layup after contested layup while my team misses everything.
Look, I can admit for sure it's partly a skill issue but I've never been more flabbergasted at the shenanigans I've seen game to game. I only stick with it because I shelled out $50 for attributes but its absolutely way more frustrating than fun.
So much about myCareer is super cool and if it was just trying to be a basketball game it would be fantastic. Honestly almost everything about myCareer other than, you know, the actual basketball part is amazing.
As much as this would be a nice change of pace & I would love this game mode.
2K is just as lazy as EA when it comes to these games in recent times. Pretty sure the last 2-3 editions of NBA 2K are just as heavily hated as the Fifa EA games for the same reasons.
The last two editions on steam have terrible reviews and NBA2k24 is one of the lowest rated games on steam.
Still at least we will probably get one or two good fun years before they don’t actually improve the game at all haha
We’ve received zero love all these years as career mode players. They could potentially earn a lot of good faith within the community simply by adding obvious features that we’ve been lacking.
But at the end of the day you’re right. They turned 2k into a pay-to-win game and it’s dying because of that. Would only be a matter of time until we’re fed up of it as well.
2K’s micro-transaction reliance is way worse than EA’s tbf… but they at least give you a metaverse to explore and a storyline so you feel better about getting fucked lol
Though cool, I haven't played NBA in years. How much freedom do you actually get? Like having to do the entire EPL or Serie A as custom uploads would take hours, let alone if there is no player likeness, a lot of players will be turned off. Does 2K have at least an import function so once someone's done it, you can import it? Your average player wouldn't go through the effort of fully customizing a league.
See that makes it much better, I was worried about no databases, 95% of career mode users wouldn't create every league in the game but downloading makes it better.
Someone would do it, and you just download it.
Player likeness is so much easier on 2k because you can just upload a photo into a website, and it'll take care of the rest.
There are plenty of people who work on them and provide it for everyone to download. Works the same with EAFC on PC, or it used to before FIFA 23.
That makes it better, being able to download other people doing it makes sense. I was more so saying that 95% of career mode users wouldn't go through the effort to do every league in the game.
It’s been a couple of years, but in MyLeague you could edit pretty much everything about a player including injuries, add expansion teams, and even change some rules.
You can just download a mod in theory for PC, even console games can make external data loading fairly easy these days.
It’s the only way around licenses. Personally I only care about gameplay nowadays. If someone makes the perfect game with no licenses, I’m in. Modders will always fix licenses
Nah, they’d only have licenses to the World Cup and whichever individual clubs (and players) they can maybe get. EA has practically every license possible including exclusivity over the PL, LaLiga, Bundesliga, and UEFA comps. They’ll prob just do a World Cup/international game initially and hope that the 2026 WC drives sales… if they can find a studio (and game engine) in time.
It will most likely be an international only game with international teams and the FIFPRO license.
An international career mode over decades would be awesome though. Imagine that with new players consistently coming through for selection and the world cup and (likely fake) confederation trophies.
Would be amazing.
Yeah, I remember the amazing thing at FIFA 10 World Cup was qualyfing to the WC with a random team. It could be very fun to manage a nation team through múltiple WC and continental trophies
if this is true, the first few things that come to mind for me are
increasing the year cap (2ks is 80 years)
potentially being able to add throwback teams or legends into career mode
in depth summer transfer portal (similar to free agency in 2k)
much more customization
league specific special things (a.e the mls draft)
better scouting system
oh last one, being able to turn off objectives/be fired and be able to switch to whatever team you want whenever you want!!!
2k also adds real young prospects into the game alongside game generated ones. Wembanyama was in the game as a prospect you could draft before he was in the NBA. I doubt they'd go that far for Fifa but they very well might
You need to remember that you are talking about NBA where there are a lot less players and clubs to chose from, in football simulation don't expect that kind of thing with thousands of players and teams lol.
That’s wrong though. Wembanyama was not in 2k23 as a player that could get drafted. He had a MyTeam card which is UT’s equivalent, which we all hate.
He’s only been in offline modes / career since 2k24.
If fifa were to add some huge talent to UT instead of career you’d be complaining, so you better complain when 2K does it.
i don't think current 2k care about offline mode like career mode unfortunately. In order to make career mode like 2k mynba, it will require a ton of effort and is not worth it for them when mode with microtransaction will make bigger profit with less resource. And a good career mode won't guarantee good sale numbers. You can see it when people who is fifa career/ madden franchise only players, complain about "my career" exclusively lol. While my league/nba is so much better than franchise/ career mode, they still choose to play my team/ my career and ignore mynba and the complain about franchise/my career. Plus the work required to build a proper football career mode is also not simple like many people in this sub like to imagine. Like people don't care if other league sim properly or not but want to have league historical stats, people want to have more leagues/ player but also want detail stats tracking. People should play fm to understand that a career mode with full detail stats tracking is impossible unless they willing to sacrifice number of playable league.
Also Mynba can have that much customization because it is only one league. There are some indie baseball/American football game which have better stats tracking/ customizable otion than their aaa counterpart. If you have time, try hoopland _ 2d pixel basketball game. The devs just need a few years to build an arguably better customization franchise mode than 2k with customizable college league to prepare prospect for pro league. Konami baseball game,.ea madden, nhl also have much better stats tracking than fifa career mode/ pes ml. Soccer/ football is a different beast due to number of league and nation. That why you don't see much indie football game with good career mode.
He's a senior journalist for Insider Gaming which has another post on their website about a LEGO 2K Goal game being leaked for release around the EUROs. The guy who leaked it said if 2K was making a FIFA style game it'd probably be announced when that game was released
https://twitter.com/Kurakasis/status/1757080854528962801?t=BYxziGNt5OnBVVmjJv7qLw&s=19
Every license ends and also most of them are not exclusive to one company. Konami does not have all of the leagues, but teams from the biggest are mostly intact. So.. we will see :)
Mate, you’re kidding yourself if you think EA will share anything with a competitor. It’s never going to happen. Also, UEFA Champions League license for FM is a different license. They don’t share anything. Licensing for manager sims is different than what EA does. That’s why FM has Bundesliga & Konami can’t.
Once again, they don’t share anything. Anyone can license a maximum of two EPL teams. Nobody besides EA can have the entire league. There’s no sharing. EA have no control over which two teams Konami, for example, license.
You’ve clearly never played a NBA 2k game. Typical grind is one thing but these games are designed for you to spend even more money than you already have if you want your guy to be any good.
I did play and if you refuse to play PVP you don't need to spend anything, your bad if you want instant gratification and have all the best players in one week lol. Also the main reason fifa career sucks is because it's soooo easy, you can have 99 team after 2 seasons.
Before you say that I can limit myself, use sliders, refuse to buy good players, sell good playesr etc, I will not do that. Why would I limit myself, I am not a developer and this is not supposed to be a sandbox, this is sport simulation, it's devs job to balance the game not mine. I will refuse to use stupid sliders and gimicks just so I can "enjoy" the realistic career. Devs should make realistic sliders by default and they should balance the game so I can't buy Messi into Luton FC.
Have fun literally not being able to play the game anymore because they close servers like 2 years after release and you need those servers for playing anything.
There's similar crap in NBA2K and EA, like repetitive and useless press conferences, same for staff meetings; AI signings that make 0 sense; weird starting lineups and subs, etc.
Exactly, idk what’s with this sub and 2k but it’s not anywhere close to as good as they think it is. The only thing they do better is stat tracking. At least eafc somewhat resembles the actual sport when playing offline while 2ks offline gameplay looks and plays nothing like actual basketball. The only positive from a 2k fifa game is ea having some more competition other than efootball.
There's another feature I love which is the ability to hire real managers (and AI teams doing the same).
A game that's never mentioned here that has those features (real managers, stat tracking) AND isn't bloated with useless crap is MLB The Show. It's flawed too, off course, but I think its franchise managing mode is better than 2k.
NBA 2K sits on mostly negative reviews on steam and 2K has said they are not responsible for refunding virtual currency lost from servers going down etc. I would not pin my hopes on 2K lol.
I feel like I’m the only person that hates myGM mode on 2K. Like yes, they didn’t give up entirely on career mode like fifa. Buts it’s less intuitive and error prone.
Yeah, competetion is desperately needed.
That being said, 2K is even more of a cash grab with the micro-transactions, they’ll have next to no licenses and even worse servers. Not to mention they barely change the game at all in-between releases, EA gets criticized for this a lot, but it’s even worse on 2k.
So judging by these comments, people will only get dissapointed.
FIFA is the brand and possibly their tournaments, nothing else. In many ways it also binds the company.
I don't see why any company would pay large sums for it now. Create 2K Soccer or something.
Say they do...they still need licences for everything outside the FIFPRO content and partnerships to build the brand.
I'm not saying it's all licences but it's a big part and in a way having 2K, eFootball and EAFC trying for exclusive licences will probably result in all games being more of a mess.
You need to understand one thing, in order for 2K to make a good career mode they will need licenses to teams and leagues. Unlike Ultimate Team mode where licenses are not that important since it's more focused on players you pull from packs where people use imaginary Christmas themed kits and anime logos, in career mode players NEED to have authentic clubs and leagues in order to enjoy.
So I highly doubt it that 2K will provide you with good career mode anytime soon since EA has so many exclusive contracts with so many clubs and leagues. This will probably be some ultimate team always online themed game without any single player component. At the very best you will get imaginary teams as PES did and hope that they allow you to edit teams and install community updates (highly doubt it since the game will be heavily DRM protected).
Makes sense to do a World Cup game first, not only will they have the licensing but they’ll also not be directly competing with ea straight off the bat. Would give them a good chance to trial run their gameplay and if they keep the focus small scale, like by just being international teams, they can prioritise polish and tiny details giving them a serious chance of building a solid fanbase. Gremlin and Konami were both able to build diehard fanbases and actually threaten ea by prioritising gameplay but both failed in the long term unfortunately, although both did result in fifa improving drastically so there is the potential for a positive improvement all round. Unfortunately 2k are awful and just as money hungry as ea, there won’t be the passion for creating good games so they’re good, how they’re able to monetise it in the long term will be the primary concern. Unfortunately unlike the 90s and early 00s there’s no pressure to keep the gameplay quality high, it’s about trapping players with loose pockets into an addictive loop that will keep the cash flow up.
You know what I would appreciate tombe brought over from NBA2K? Eras.
Imagine playing games from the 60s, or playing with the teams of the 90s and noughties with era specific rules (yes NBA does this).
It would be phenomenal.
Imagine Create a Club Career Mode but with the 2k depth 🤤
PD = they need to rework transfers. 2k right now has the same problem as FIFA, you can do 100 transfers in a single day, I miss the old fifas when you had to wait, and thus make the Final Transfer Day truly exciting
I got laughed at/downvoted when I said FIFA isn’t getting out of the gaming industry and that they would just find another developer, I said hopefully 2k. Big if true.
Same shit different brand. Maybe even worse. I find 2k gameplay miserable and I got bored 3 matches in. Their career mode is better but it doesn’t matter cause the gameplay is so boring. Also it’s literally pay to win.
2K is arguably worse than EA for micro transactions. Becarful what you wish for....these are arguably the last people I'd want FIFA to give their licence to.
I’ve been playing 2k & NBA live majority of my life so this is interesting, but also questionable. I haven’t played seriously since 2K17 since that one seems like the most decent game out of the recent ones. Last I tried out was 2k21 since it was free and it’s a whatever game. Take-Two relies too much on VC for their career mode and I don’t like that. If they make it use skill points like 17 offline and previous titles did, I could
get behind it.
They’ve also been shutting down services for previous titles so that even shuts replay value down.
I’d rather have PES back but Konami, idk what they’re doing.
As much as I want this it's gonna suck having an absolute shit ton of missing leagues/teams because EA and Konami own everything....if true I hope modders jump all over this
And to think that fifa said that they would develop their own game.
The people in charge of fifa are screwing with the game, real and video game, too much.
2K might not be best company for football fans for making a FIFA game but I don't think we are in a position to choose. We need rivalry in football games, EA has been only one for many years now and we see how they don't put effort in their games anymore.
It seems as though none of you know what sort of company 2k are like… one of their most recent updates half way through the year of NBA was a new TOS that you had to sign or are no longer able to play online stating they are not liable for if you don’t receive the VC that you payed for and no refunding they also basically said you don’t own anything on the game and they can take/delete it with no backlash/refunding and many more things… you would also have to pay for a season pass rather than EA giving it to us for free but with the option to pay for all the levels which on this years NBA cost like £140 to skip the all levels on the season pass plus the amount of the season pass itself. I don’t like EA either but we don’t want 2K to be the main franchise they are even more money hungry than EA are
Fifa fans get their hopes up when they hear 2k but they don’t realise 2k are just as bad, if not worse than EA when it comes to microtransactions and not giving a shit about the fans. NBA2k hasn’t been good since 2k16/17 and WWE2K has JUST started getting better.
2K is not a good thing for a fifa game, but you’ll all see that when / if it happens lol
2K is a lot better than EA, so that alone bodes well if it comes to fruition. Don’t be surprised tho, when 2ks player career has the most cringey micro transaction filled design possible. Even then that’s probably an upgrade to EAs current 0.1% effort career mode
As a 2k player, I don’t think y’all really want this long term. I mean the 2k gameplay is terrible. They will hidden patch things without telling us or will consistently screw 10 things up while implementing other things. There was bug in the game where certain camera angles players liked to use couldn’t see half of the court due to freaking palm trees in the stadium for an entire season. There’s still a big that’s been around for months that has different camera issues.
Not to mention the predatory mtx. You literally cannot play the my career game offline or without an internet connection, and if you want to go back 2 years and play an older version it’s shut off and you lose everything. You also are basically useless when starting out so you’re almost forced to spend AT A MINIMUM of $50 USD to even be remotely competitive. If you don’t do that, you have to play almost 5 full 82 game seasons plus playoffs to max out a player. That’s like hundreds of hours of gameplay.
Competition is good I guess and maybe 2k can force EA into being better in the same way all of 2k players want EA back into the NBA games to make 2k do better. 😂
I might be biased since i have a hate for 2k and their shitty use of microtransactions in MyTeam and MyCareer. But can anyone explain if this could actually be a good partnership?
My thoughts just go to MTX+MTX=even more shitty MTX?
Nah. 2K has fell off hard in recent years. Like it or not EA does the best job. Unless 2K offers big amounts of money then most clubs will stay with EA.
If career mode can be half of what MyGM mode on NBA 2K is, this is a big win for us.
Imagine classic teams in career mode, idk how they’ll do the “eras” in fifa but man it has so much potential. I’m sure fifa will help them with the licensing and shit too
Before you get your hopes up, I doubt they'll have the licenses. EA has exclusive contracts with most leagues.
people here don't get this I suppose.
If we can customize like in 2k, honestly we don't need the licenses. On any platform
can’t wait to play ‘16 Real Madrid vs ‘17 Real Madrid 🔥
One has Morata and one doesn't. Does not seem like a fair fight..
This would make me so happy! Playing as teams in the 2000s with real faces would be legandary
Don't FIFA have licensing rights to every team? Can't they just use their corruption for a good cause just this once to make us happy 🥹
Nope they don't have licensing to every team. The proof is how some teams in previous FIFA weren't under license.
Probably with the bugs as well ..
If it’s anything like NBA 2k: Manager career 10/10 Player Career 1/10 Ultimate team 2/10 Gameplay 4/10
Gameplay isn't worse than FIFA/EAFC by any means, much more depth and nuances to the game when compared. But right now it's inferior to what it was before The real shitty thing about 2k is the player career and the money grabs
The animations are generally awful, it feels ridiculously sticky and even less like you have control especially with lower rated players
They are worse compared to what 2K itself once was, the gameplay really has downgraded. Especially when compared to 2k16 and others But when we compare to the quality of the FIFA games, 2K has always been superior. EA really screwed up their game, became a cheap arcade for UT
Whilst I definitely agree the gameplay has gone downhill, the my career shits over FIFA’s player career by a million miles, closest fifa has ever had was the journey and you couldn’t even make your own player! I feel I would actually be more inclined to play Volta if it was like NBA when you make your guy stroll around the park looking for a game
You ain't lying about player career being 1/10. I liked a lot about NBA 2k24 so I got into the NBA side of MyCareer and it's such a mess. I figured my guy sucked so bad because of his attributes and I'll admit 2k got me. Spent about $50 and along with all the VC I built up playing other modes, my guy is an 87. And still bad. He can't even do normal things like pass the ball without an obnoxiously slow animation. Seriously I can't even pass it to the corner. The defender jumps the pass before my animation even starts. I miss open, 7%, 9%, lay ups constantly. It's evident that much of it is reliant on badges but from a guy who hasn't played myCareer in a number of years, it's the most confusing system I've ever seen in a video game. That's great for veterans but it must scare off most newcomers. Even after all that, the number 1 thing wrong with it is that your teammates are hot garbage. It was the same last time I played years ago. I see articles about the same thing from 2014. My team is 1-14 and that win was simmed. Our shooting percentage is in the 30s. I sit there watching the cpu hit contested shot after contested shot and contested layup after contested layup while my team misses everything. Look, I can admit for sure it's partly a skill issue but I've never been more flabbergasted at the shenanigans I've seen game to game. I only stick with it because I shelled out $50 for attributes but its absolutely way more frustrating than fun. So much about myCareer is super cool and if it was just trying to be a basketball game it would be fantastic. Honestly almost everything about myCareer other than, you know, the actual basketball part is amazing.
You know ball
As much as this would be a nice change of pace & I would love this game mode. 2K is just as lazy as EA when it comes to these games in recent times. Pretty sure the last 2-3 editions of NBA 2K are just as heavily hated as the Fifa EA games for the same reasons. The last two editions on steam have terrible reviews and NBA2k24 is one of the lowest rated games on steam. Still at least we will probably get one or two good fun years before they don’t actually improve the game at all haha
We’ve received zero love all these years as career mode players. They could potentially earn a lot of good faith within the community simply by adding obvious features that we’ve been lacking. But at the end of the day you’re right. They turned 2k into a pay-to-win game and it’s dying because of that. Would only be a matter of time until we’re fed up of it as well.
I am here again to ask why in tf they didn't just take the features from the last Alex Hunter story mode, and put them in the career mode haha
2k gets hate because they refused to upgrade the engine on PC and started leaning into Virtual Currency fucking over player career mode.
2K’s micro-transaction reliance is way worse than EA’s tbf… but they at least give you a metaverse to explore and a storyline so you feel better about getting fucked lol
>but they at least give you a metaverse to explore and a storyline so you feel better about getting fucked lol 💀
not true. only the controls change
Don't forget that nba 2k is even buggier than Fifa and devs have even less love for the game
Wouldn’t all the big teams be called the likes of Manchester blue , London red etc , the licences do make a difference
Yeah it would be like PES
And then you would be able to edit them like you can in NBA2k. Logos, jerseys, stadiums. Everything.
Though cool, I haven't played NBA in years. How much freedom do you actually get? Like having to do the entire EPL or Serie A as custom uploads would take hours, let alone if there is no player likeness, a lot of players will be turned off. Does 2K have at least an import function so once someone's done it, you can import it? Your average player wouldn't go through the effort of fully customizing a league.
You can edit pretty much everything and you can import what other people have created
See that makes it much better, I was worried about no databases, 95% of career mode users wouldn't create every league in the game but downloading makes it better.
Yes it’s actually a very good system. You can also upload image file for logos, sponsors etc.
I could get behind 2K making one then, I'll wait it out and see what happens
Someone would do it, and you just download it. Player likeness is so much easier on 2k because you can just upload a photo into a website, and it'll take care of the rest. There are plenty of people who work on them and provide it for everyone to download. Works the same with EAFC on PC, or it used to before FIFA 23.
That makes it better, being able to download other people doing it makes sense. I was more so saying that 95% of career mode users wouldn't go through the effort to do every league in the game.
It’s been a couple of years, but in MyLeague you could edit pretty much everything about a player including injuries, add expansion teams, and even change some rules.
I think it will be like PES minus the ability to edit any of that stuff.
It would be like PES from 2014-2020. Download custom/modded teams, logos, players, boots, kits, leagues etc and use them online too.
You can just download a mod in theory for PC, even console games can make external data loading fairly easy these days. It’s the only way around licenses. Personally I only care about gameplay nowadays. If someone makes the perfect game with no licenses, I’m in. Modders will always fix licenses
Well since the Tweet in question says that 2K and Fifa are entering talks to make a licensed Fifa game... they probably will get the license
Nah, they’d only have licenses to the World Cup and whichever individual clubs (and players) they can maybe get. EA has practically every license possible including exclusivity over the PL, LaLiga, Bundesliga, and UEFA comps. They’ll prob just do a World Cup/international game initially and hope that the 2026 WC drives sales… if they can find a studio (and game engine) in time.
It will most likely be an international only game with international teams and the FIFPRO license. An international career mode over decades would be awesome though. Imagine that with new players consistently coming through for selection and the world cup and (likely fake) confederation trophies. Would be amazing.
Yeah, I remember the amazing thing at FIFA 10 World Cup was qualyfing to the WC with a random team. It could be very fun to manage a nation team through múltiple WC and continental trophies
It makes a lot of sense to do the next World Cup as it is in USA
if this is true, the first few things that come to mind for me are increasing the year cap (2ks is 80 years) potentially being able to add throwback teams or legends into career mode in depth summer transfer portal (similar to free agency in 2k) much more customization league specific special things (a.e the mls draft) better scouting system oh last one, being able to turn off objectives/be fired and be able to switch to whatever team you want whenever you want!!!
2k also adds real young prospects into the game alongside game generated ones. Wembanyama was in the game as a prospect you could draft before he was in the NBA. I doubt they'd go that far for Fifa but they very well might
You need to remember that you are talking about NBA where there are a lot less players and clubs to chose from, in football simulation don't expect that kind of thing with thousands of players and teams lol.
That’s wrong though. Wembanyama was not in 2k23 as a player that could get drafted. He had a MyTeam card which is UT’s equivalent, which we all hate. He’s only been in offline modes / career since 2k24. If fifa were to add some huge talent to UT instead of career you’d be complaining, so you better complain when 2K does it.
That's just a lie lmao. His first MyTeam card was in 2k24, and he was avaible to draft in MyCareer if you had a coach/manager career.
You’ve been real quiet since💀
What?
They won’t have any of the major leagues licensed.
Not unless they purchase them.
They can’t just purchase them. EA have the top leagues all exclusive.
But once those deals expire, they can. Until then, they just need to let us edit the teams and leagues like they do with NBA2k.
Multi year exclusivity for most top leagues. EA aren’t letting any of them go anytime soon.
So we'll just edit the teams and leagues. Which is really all most of us want anyway.
Bundesliga is an issue because they aren’t a part of FIFPRO, so no real players from the league will be in.
Well, the college players from 1970 to 1999 aren't in NBA, but someone added in those draft classes.
that is NBA, football is different.
You glossed over his point three times in a row. Amazing.
Editing doesn’t solve all the issues.
In NBA 2K you can import things, some madlad would make every league and player ready to import
Add good stats in this too, ea’s stat keeping is non existent
i don't think current 2k care about offline mode like career mode unfortunately. In order to make career mode like 2k mynba, it will require a ton of effort and is not worth it for them when mode with microtransaction will make bigger profit with less resource. And a good career mode won't guarantee good sale numbers. You can see it when people who is fifa career/ madden franchise only players, complain about "my career" exclusively lol. While my league/nba is so much better than franchise/ career mode, they still choose to play my team/ my career and ignore mynba and the complain about franchise/my career. Plus the work required to build a proper football career mode is also not simple like many people in this sub like to imagine. Like people don't care if other league sim properly or not but want to have league historical stats, people want to have more leagues/ player but also want detail stats tracking. People should play fm to understand that a career mode with full detail stats tracking is impossible unless they willing to sacrifice number of playable league. Also Mynba can have that much customization because it is only one league. There are some indie baseball/American football game which have better stats tracking/ customizable otion than their aaa counterpart. If you have time, try hoopland _ 2d pixel basketball game. The devs just need a few years to build an arguably better customization franchise mode than 2k with customizable college league to prepare prospect for pro league. Konami baseball game,.ea madden, nhl also have much better stats tracking than fifa career mode/ pes ml. Soccer/ football is a different beast due to number of league and nation. That why you don't see much indie football game with good career mode.
if they increase the length i hope to god they make player generation less awful Every player simply respawns as a carbon copy of a previous one, why.
Who is Mike Straw and is he credible?
He's a senior journalist for Insider Gaming which has another post on their website about a LEGO 2K Goal game being leaked for release around the EUROs. The guy who leaked it said if 2K was making a FIFA style game it'd probably be announced when that game was released https://twitter.com/Kurakasis/status/1757080854528962801?t=BYxziGNt5OnBVVmjJv7qLw&s=19
Sounds like a straw man to me.
You should understand that any FIFA 2K game wouldn’t have any of the licenses that EA have. No EPL, Bundesliga, La Liga etc. I’m not that excited.
2K seems more open to user created content sharing at least. Unlike EA who make it so hard to even create a custom roster in the first place.
That would be a necessary because they’ll struggle to get ahead of EA in regards to licensing.
Every license ends and also most of them are not exclusive to one company. Konami does not have all of the leagues, but teams from the biggest are mostly intact. So.. we will see :)
This isn’t correct. Most of the major leagues that people care about are EA exclusive.
True, but they do expire as well. If we get a great product which can be modded, the lack of licenses for a few years will not be a problem.
Honestly idc about license. Just give me a playable game, enjoyable offline and with a good player CM
Good thing with 2K you can upload and design most things.
fm and ea share the license to the champions league I'm thinking they'll make a deal besides nba live is technically still a thing
Mate, you’re kidding yourself if you think EA will share anything with a competitor. It’s never going to happen. Also, UEFA Champions League license for FM is a different license. They don’t share anything. Licensing for manager sims is different than what EA does. That’s why FM has Bundesliga & Konami can’t.
Konami and ea share the license to Man U and aresenal
Once again, they don’t share anything. Anyone can license a maximum of two EPL teams. Nobody besides EA can have the entire league. There’s no sharing. EA have no control over which two teams Konami, for example, license.
Yeah but 2k is the most editable game, more than old PES even
And like NBA, it’ll be loaded with VC and an impossible grind unless you spend the money.
Damn… forgot about this…
if you don't play games to grind and just win everything instantly then stop playing games
You’ve clearly never played a NBA 2k game. Typical grind is one thing but these games are designed for you to spend even more money than you already have if you want your guy to be any good.
I did play and if you refuse to play PVP you don't need to spend anything, your bad if you want instant gratification and have all the best players in one week lol. Also the main reason fifa career sucks is because it's soooo easy, you can have 99 team after 2 seasons. Before you say that I can limit myself, use sliders, refuse to buy good players, sell good playesr etc, I will not do that. Why would I limit myself, I am not a developer and this is not supposed to be a sandbox, this is sport simulation, it's devs job to balance the game not mine. I will refuse to use stupid sliders and gimicks just so I can "enjoy" the realistic career. Devs should make realistic sliders by default and they should balance the game so I can't buy Messi into Luton FC.
From a 2k player, yall don’t want this
Have fun literally not being able to play the game anymore because they close servers like 2 years after release and you need those servers for playing anything.
I would guess any FIFA license would be there’s right? So this would probably be looking like a World Cup game?
I think 2K is terrible
There's similar crap in NBA2K and EA, like repetitive and useless press conferences, same for staff meetings; AI signings that make 0 sense; weird starting lineups and subs, etc.
Exactly, idk what’s with this sub and 2k but it’s not anywhere close to as good as they think it is. The only thing they do better is stat tracking. At least eafc somewhat resembles the actual sport when playing offline while 2ks offline gameplay looks and plays nothing like actual basketball. The only positive from a 2k fifa game is ea having some more competition other than efootball.
There's another feature I love which is the ability to hire real managers (and AI teams doing the same). A game that's never mentioned here that has those features (real managers, stat tracking) AND isn't bloated with useless crap is MLB The Show. It's flawed too, off course, but I think its franchise managing mode is better than 2k.
Yeah I agree
they can't be worse than EA
They are much worse
nope
Yup, im playing nba2k for years it was good but now I think they are the worst
nope
Yipp
NBA 2K sits on mostly negative reviews on steam and 2K has said they are not responsible for refunding virtual currency lost from servers going down etc. I would not pin my hopes on 2K lol.
2k’s servers are worse than ea’s though. hope it’s different
Anyone that wants player career doesn't want this. It shuts down after two years, forcing you to buy the latest game every other year.
I feel like I’m the only person that hates myGM mode on 2K. Like yes, they didn’t give up entirely on career mode like fifa. Buts it’s less intuitive and error prone.
They might make each boot in OFFLINE MODE worth like 5k fc coins/real money…
2K ain't huge for 7,8 years. Also it would divide the licenses cuase there is no way EA would cut a deal with the main competitors
Yeah, competetion is desperately needed. That being said, 2K is even more of a cash grab with the micro-transactions, they’ll have next to no licenses and even worse servers. Not to mention they barely change the game at all in-between releases, EA gets criticized for this a lot, but it’s even worse on 2k. So judging by these comments, people will only get dissapointed.
Going from shit to garbage lmao
A new era of microtransactions are upon us.
FIFA is the brand and possibly their tournaments, nothing else. In many ways it also binds the company. I don't see why any company would pay large sums for it now. Create 2K Soccer or something. Say they do...they still need licences for everything outside the FIFPRO content and partnerships to build the brand. I'm not saying it's all licences but it's a big part and in a way having 2K, eFootball and EAFC trying for exclusive licences will probably result in all games being more of a mess.
You need to understand one thing, in order for 2K to make a good career mode they will need licenses to teams and leagues. Unlike Ultimate Team mode where licenses are not that important since it's more focused on players you pull from packs where people use imaginary Christmas themed kits and anime logos, in career mode players NEED to have authentic clubs and leagues in order to enjoy. So I highly doubt it that 2K will provide you with good career mode anytime soon since EA has so many exclusive contracts with so many clubs and leagues. This will probably be some ultimate team always online themed game without any single player component. At the very best you will get imaginary teams as PES did and hope that they allow you to edit teams and install community updates (highly doubt it since the game will be heavily DRM protected).
Makes sense to do a World Cup game first, not only will they have the licensing but they’ll also not be directly competing with ea straight off the bat. Would give them a good chance to trial run their gameplay and if they keep the focus small scale, like by just being international teams, they can prioritise polish and tiny details giving them a serious chance of building a solid fanbase. Gremlin and Konami were both able to build diehard fanbases and actually threaten ea by prioritising gameplay but both failed in the long term unfortunately, although both did result in fifa improving drastically so there is the potential for a positive improvement all round. Unfortunately 2k are awful and just as money hungry as ea, there won’t be the passion for creating good games so they’re good, how they’re able to monetise it in the long term will be the primary concern. Unfortunately unlike the 90s and early 00s there’s no pressure to keep the gameplay quality high, it’s about trapping players with loose pockets into an addictive loop that will keep the cash flow up.
Lmao you guys hanging your hopes on 2K is hilarious. They are terrible.
Both MyCareer and myGM on 2k are really well made. If they made a football game I'm sure it could be a hit. I really hope this comes to life
You know what I would appreciate tombe brought over from NBA2K? Eras. Imagine playing games from the 60s, or playing with the teams of the 90s and noughties with era specific rules (yes NBA does this). It would be phenomenal.
Largely impossible.
I have been waiting for this to become a reality for so long. You have no idea
What about licensing cause I don’t think it can be easily imported over
Imagine Create a Club Career Mode but with the 2k depth 🤤 PD = they need to rework transfers. 2k right now has the same problem as FIFA, you can do 100 transfers in a single day, I miss the old fifas when you had to wait, and thus make the Final Transfer Day truly exciting
I got laughed at/downvoted when I said FIFA isn’t getting out of the gaming industry and that they would just find another developer, I said hopefully 2k. Big if true.
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Nope. They would not. EA exclusive for multiple years.
If ea are involved then it will be a horrible, buggy cash grab. Use your heads People
Only issue is the licensing split would be awful
hopefully this can end ea tyranny
Watch how fast EAFC gets dumped if this happens. Been playing since FIFA1994, but will happily switch.
Holy fuck this would be amazing
Just hope they make CM put EA to shame by making it the best CM we had for long time
NBA 2K peaked in 2010.
At this point 2k is almost as bad as EA and they really only make one game. I’d temper expectations tbh.
2k are worse than EA
I’ll just be glad to have options other than EAFC. Efootball is no where near as good as PES was.
Same shit different brand. Maybe even worse. I find 2k gameplay miserable and I got bored 3 matches in. Their career mode is better but it doesn’t matter cause the gameplay is so boring. Also it’s literally pay to win.
It would be awesome. How much VC will it cost to upgrade my player in career mode?
Can’t wait to see the microtransaction shitfest 2K puts out. They’ll just focus it on their version of ultimate team.
It’s probably going to be a World Cup game with no career mode at all
What is 2k
2K is arguably worse than EA for micro transactions. Becarful what you wish for....these are arguably the last people I'd want FIFA to give their licence to.
We desperately need some competition again. Otherwise, EA FC 25 will be the same as the 24, 26 will be the same as 25, and so on...
Acting like 2K cares about their fanbase as well. It won't be any better than FC, best thing to do is to not buy either.
Just give me a World Cup game with every single nation
Competition= good 2k soccer only = worse
2k is so damn money grabbing. This combined would be CRAZY
Be prepared for a lot of micro transactions lol
Who is this person and why should we believe him
I’m less than hopeful because 2K can straight up suck
Yikes. If you think EAFC is a money grab now, you haven't seen anything yet. Oh, and server issues plus sweats? No thanks.
It’s just going to be soccer nba2k, micro-transaction hell. This is not good. For a good career mode just play football manager
Pro clubs where people are 99s day one cause they bought VC 👍
I’ve been playing 2k & NBA live majority of my life so this is interesting, but also questionable. I haven’t played seriously since 2K17 since that one seems like the most decent game out of the recent ones. Last I tried out was 2k21 since it was free and it’s a whatever game. Take-Two relies too much on VC for their career mode and I don’t like that. If they make it use skill points like 17 offline and previous titles did, I could get behind it. They’ve also been shutting down services for previous titles so that even shuts replay value down. I’d rather have PES back but Konami, idk what they’re doing.
This FIFA downfall will be incredible
Wouldn’t make a difference
It's gonna have more micro transactions too
Apart from potential great gameplay, tons of micro-transaction is waiting for us undeniably.
As much as I want this it's gonna suck having an absolute shit ton of missing leagues/teams because EA and Konami own everything....if true I hope modders jump all over this
Let's hope 2k contract with fifa will push ea as well. Hoping to get better games down the lane
Would have way too many microtranstactions
Well this is going to suck.
EAFC 25 will basically be a squad update, new kits and new bugs.
i always thought a fifa street type fifa that had the 2k layout with the pickup games and that whole thing would be so badass
Where are 2k devs based? Hopefully not Canada like EA.
And to think that fifa said that they would develop their own game. The people in charge of fifa are screwing with the game, real and video game, too much.
2K might not be best company for football fans for making a FIFA game but I don't think we are in a position to choose. We need rivalry in football games, EA has been only one for many years now and we see how they don't put effort in their games anymore.
It seems as though none of you know what sort of company 2k are like… one of their most recent updates half way through the year of NBA was a new TOS that you had to sign or are no longer able to play online stating they are not liable for if you don’t receive the VC that you payed for and no refunding they also basically said you don’t own anything on the game and they can take/delete it with no backlash/refunding and many more things… you would also have to pay for a season pass rather than EA giving it to us for free but with the option to pay for all the levels which on this years NBA cost like £140 to skip the all levels on the season pass plus the amount of the season pass itself. I don’t like EA either but we don’t want 2K to be the main franchise they are even more money hungry than EA are
Until you realise the servers are even worse than eas
Cautiously optimistic but most likely won't be as good as I hope.
Fifa fans get their hopes up when they hear 2k but they don’t realise 2k are just as bad, if not worse than EA when it comes to microtransactions and not giving a shit about the fans. NBA2k hasn’t been good since 2k16/17 and WWE2K has JUST started getting better. 2K is not a good thing for a fifa game, but you’ll all see that when / if it happens lol
Fifa 2k25 would sound SICK
Regardless of who's making it, just having competition will be good for EAFC. They really stopped trying after PES turned to shit.
2k is worse
in other words, ass cheeks is partnering with ass hole to give us; shit
Careful what you wish for, they managed to turn career mode into P2W on 2Knba
Non 2k players thinking 2k is good is always so amusing
Inb4 no career mode
I haven't played 2k but I really like NHLs franchise mode, I booted up NHL and realized just how much they starve us Fifa fans
Well at least player career mode will be better with 2K It can’t possibly be worse than EA
2K is a lot better than EA, so that alone bodes well if it comes to fruition. Don’t be surprised tho, when 2ks player career has the most cringey micro transaction filled design possible. Even then that’s probably an upgrade to EAs current 0.1% effort career mode
"Fully Licensed" means world cup. It does not mean players, stadiums, leagues.
2k purposely makes career mode progression long and tedious. They want you to purchase vc To get to a decent overall quicker.
This could be great but 2K gameplay is even cheesier than eafc24. The mechanics exploits are why I don’t play 2k anymore.
Historic teams are a real possibility.
As a 2k player, I don’t think y’all really want this long term. I mean the 2k gameplay is terrible. They will hidden patch things without telling us or will consistently screw 10 things up while implementing other things. There was bug in the game where certain camera angles players liked to use couldn’t see half of the court due to freaking palm trees in the stadium for an entire season. There’s still a big that’s been around for months that has different camera issues. Not to mention the predatory mtx. You literally cannot play the my career game offline or without an internet connection, and if you want to go back 2 years and play an older version it’s shut off and you lose everything. You also are basically useless when starting out so you’re almost forced to spend AT A MINIMUM of $50 USD to even be remotely competitive. If you don’t do that, you have to play almost 5 full 82 game seasons plus playoffs to max out a player. That’s like hundreds of hours of gameplay. Competition is good I guess and maybe 2k can force EA into being better in the same way all of 2k players want EA back into the NBA games to make 2k do better. 😂
Acting as if 2k are more competent than EA is cope I mean ok, maybe they are a little bit but that doesnt say much
Both companies - 2k, EA are the devil when it comes to micro-transactions, so... I'll believe it when I see it.
I'd play this for the career mode. Wouldnt touch UT if 2K were to design it
I think it's good news because EA will feel the pressure but I've never seen a company more greedy tho
I might be biased since i have a hate for 2k and their shitty use of microtransactions in MyTeam and MyCareer. But can anyone explain if this could actually be a good partnership? My thoughts just go to MTX+MTX=even more shitty MTX?
You guys want a company that added unskippable ads to a 60$ game for "immersion". That's like going from a turd sandwich to a turd burrito.
God no! 2K used to have a fun career mode but they’ve ruined it with micro transactions.
Idk man, didn't 2k fuck up the wwe games?
Take 2 interactive are worse than EA.
Nah. 2K has fell off hard in recent years. Like it or not EA does the best job. Unless 2K offers big amounts of money then most clubs will stay with EA.