Why is this game so bad straight out the box?

[GaTechPimp]

I know this is OS and we're all tweakage freaks, but this game is one of the worst I've ever played with default settings.

Why should consumers have to go thru and do something that the designers should have taken more time to look at?

I like the game, and have bought all the 2k's since AI was on the cover on dreamcast. So I'm not flaming.

Personally, I dont like messing with sliders because you cant use them online and when you play at other peoples houses its back to square one.

thoughts?

[J.R. Locke]

Argued to death but you are a GaTech man so here ya go.

I don't care. As long as the producers give me the oppurtunity to tweak the game to my liking I don't care what it is like out of the box.

I know not everyone wants to play full 12 minute quarters like me so I don't think the producers should try to make a game perfect out of the box. Everyone has different ideas about what is good and bad....etc

[Protocol8]

I'm assuming you're referring to ranked games because I use my custom sliders via player match against my friends all the time. The first solution that comes to mind would be the implementation of a "simulation" mode sliderset that automatically adjusts the sliders for optimal realism. Of course you then have the problem of determining what realistic sliders actually are, implementing, testing, and to be honest I don't think it's high on the to-do list of 2K.

Regardless, no matter what sliders they use everyone is going to find something wrong with them. You're better off letting the community do the job for you, especially with a fanbase as rabid as 2K's. In regards to different sliders at your friends house - why don't you upload your sliders online and simply tell your friend to download them? No internet at your friends house? Take the sliders with you on a USB flash drive and you're good to go.

[blad3runner]

I agree that the game plays no way near as good with default sliders/rosters compared to when you use edited rosters/sliders, but even though it plays badly on default, it is still miles and miles a head of Live 09. I still enjoyed playing it on default rosters/sliders, though the game does improve 100x when applying edits.

I agree though 2k should have worked harder on accurate rosters/tendencies as this would result in people, like nogster, not having to work as HARD trying to make the game play better.

Lets pray for next years 2k10 for this?

[Nodima]

I'm enjoying playing online now that I can - as frustrating as it is, it's a bigger challenge to stop a cheese Rockets user than the A.I. Rockets, so sometimes I go for that challenge. But it's really, really annoying how often the servers register contested shots, especially average contests, as wide open shots. It's the worst in the paint, where a lot of guys' strategy is Iso into the paint, stand still and squiggle around while passing up 2 or 3 normal shot attempts to wait for me to think he's going to shoot and go for a block. At that point you can hit the layup for a guaranteed shot with Luther Head because Greg Oden's in the air? Ugh, whatever.

[RAZRr1275]

I'm cool with it as long as it works after you fix it. Every game is screwed out of the box now