NBA Live 18 Demo Scheduled to Arrive on August 11

Yes!
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Nice! I will be looking forward to this.
(Need XBOX Gold or PS Plus, an EA Account, and Persistent Internet connection according to the fine print -- nothing out of the ordinary.)

Great news!

:woot:
Glad to have that out there official at least.

After that accidental tweet couple weeks back August 11 was pretty much a given..
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I was really hoping for a PC release. Oh well. Still excited to try it out.

Perfect time to release it. 2K gamers are tired of '17, so they'll come check it out. Gives us enough time to play it and see if we like it or not before games such as Madden come out. Just hoping that they give us the ability to play online in this demo like in the '16 demo.

Should certainly get a fair amount of play being the given time. I sure hope it's good and Live is well alive again!!! I'm afraid if this sucks, R. I. P. to live
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Awesome timing! With M18 set to drop on the 22nd gives us time to really test it out. Hoping to see vast improvements from 16, which from the gameplay videos we seen it has.
Welcome back Live!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I will be at my future in-laws from the 10th to 13th.
FML

This is great news.

couples vacation with friends that weekend BUT its on when i return Sunday.

Oh yes!!!
Go time it is.

This is great and but you'd think they'd announce an official release date too, alongside of the demo release date.
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Is it common to get demos on Friday? And when are we getting the scan app?
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The Drew League doesn't seem like something I would be into but I'm still excited to try it out just to see how the gameplay feels

You'll get a feel for NBA as well.

Nice can't wait to give this game a try and see it in motion on a TV.  A little disappointed there was a gameplay trailer to accompany this announcement but I'm sure we will be getting plenty of information and gameplay soon enough.

Phew! It's nice to have an official date.
I hope they don't wait 10 days prior to the full game release to tell us the date for that.

@WTF -- can you tell us whether the demo will only feature Drew League & street parks, or will it also have actual NBA teams we can play with?

EDIT:
Whoops, nevermind. Just saw that quote above...

Hellblade and NBA Live 18 DEMO next week?
MY BODY IS READY :bump:

I am more excited for this demo than any bball game in a couple of years. Though I will say that 2kU demo last year was hot and sucked me into that game until they switched the game up with updates and completely changed the feel back to the stale animation controlled gameplay. So maybe I should learn to temper my excitement for any game lol.

Sounds like it will be similar to the 16 demo...nice...we'll see what they got going on!
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I just want to play 5 vs 5 game. If they have the warriors vs cavs, or other real teams to just sample game play is what im interested in. I hope its not just the one stuff.

Friday? I look forward on trying it out.
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Well this is mostly a super serious sim community, but I'm one of the few that mainly plays the career modes. Will we be able do face scans, get a head start on our character etc?

A YouTube interview I posted a month or so ago said the app would release before the demo . Haven't heard anything since though .

Yep, you will.

Isn't this about the time they released a demo in their last run?
I hope this game is good but I'm worried they are releasing this 4 months ahead of the games release to gauge interest.
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I pray they didn't put LaVar Ball in the game.

Four months? The game comes out in a month and a half.

When? Everytime that I Google it the only response says December 2017.
Edit:. I just tried to look it up on Best Buy and GameStop. It is not on either of their websites.
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Besides The One mode I wonder what teams will be available to play in the demo?
Golden State, Cavs, Rockets, & Celtics are my guess.
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Awesome
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The December date you are seeing is a placeholder date. Happens with all games that don't have an official release date.
WTF said it was coming out 9/15. No way they release this in December.

I'm hyped this is AWESOME

Considering the release date of the "other" NBA game, I can't decide if that release date is a genius move, or a terrible move.
I'll definitely be testing out this demo though. Have to see how far this game has come.

Cool, can't wait.

Im excited!
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Word. I'm hoping I actually like this Live. The 16 demo, while the graphics were good, I couldn't eff with the gameplay and the demo was deleted after 2 or 3 go rounds. I'm not an "onliner" so I didn't care for Pro-AM.

Agree with the 16 demo. Worst gameplay I've seen from a next gen hoops game tbh.

Looking forward to starting 'The One'. Really like playing w/ friends in Live 16 with summer circuit and LIVE RUN so I am excited about this.
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I believe you, but on EA's end why the heck will they not let you pre-order it yet? Especially since it is only a month and a half away.
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This is awesome, hard to argue with a demo coming out a month or more before the game's release.  Really hoping I'm as into Live this year as those who have played it seem to be.  I'm not dogging 2k, just been there and done that a lot lately, found the game a bit stale last year to say the least.?
Let's do this EA, don't eff it up!

legendary gold elite platinum epic collector season-pass editions of games are $150 now. i'd rather just get two standard games for $120.

Can't wait!!!!!

I am wondering if they have not given an official release and a put up preorders because they are contemplating doing what 2k once did as the underdog and selling the game at a significant discount. First 2k I ever played was because I could pick it up for 20 bucks. I believe that 2K's confidence in that game going forward once they could get it into households was the genesis to their market dominance today. 

@WTF -- will the demo be an "unlimited" demo (playable forever like the Live 16 demo), or like an EA Access type of thing?
I never got around to buying Live 16 at the time, only downloaded the demo. A month ago I began playing the demo in anticipation of Live 18, and I went out and bought 16 for $9.99 -- I've been playing it nonstop ever since.

Looking forward to this

Believe it'll be unlimited demo with ability to carry over progress.

Will it release at midnight?
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i hope so, but i doubt it lol
prob late morning early afternoon release - either way, i called off work. cant wait

Nice I look forward to playing it....I'm playing Live 16 and I'm loving how controllable your guy is.

thats what caught me a few months back. i felt like i had control of my character! once i learned how to play defense on live (not impossible but can feel like it), is when i really began to enjoy the free movement. live 16 was and still is a fun game

It very well could. Probably not one of those highly planned midnight releases, but for fans like us, it would be nice. Worst case, set your alarm for 4am or when you got the restroom and have a check! haha
This is the earliest I remember seeing an NBA demo come out. I got some high hopes they are confident in this product. I tread softly, but excited at the same time...

So the demo is only a "my player" thing? You can't play with regular nba teams? If so really bad decision by EA Imo. I'm not interested at all in this fictional stuff and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I want to see how it feels playing with real nba players, 5vs5, and how they are represented in the game

Nothing has been confirmed on what is actually available in the demo. More than likely the option to play Cavs v Warriors will be there among other things.

I could've sworn that wtf already said that you can play as NBA teams. I'm also pretty sure that the wnba are also playable.
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Man I hope so.
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This would be extremely disappointing
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https://twitter.com/clarktaivian99/status/895415473935798272
Straight for Will himself. The One and a few other modes. I'm pretty confident we'll be able to play regular games

The Live 16 demo had 6 NBA teams you could play as/against, in addition to the "my player" (Rising Star), and Pro-Am/street park modes.
I gotta give EA credit, even though the Live franchise has been plagued with issues, the Live 16 was pretty heavy-featured and it's playable even to this day. I am expect this demo to be the same.

Will be disappointed if the game doesnt have a PS4 pro mode.
Not a deal breaker though

Really hoping we get a chance to play online Pro-Am like 16. I had a lot of fun grinding out the games and getting a feel for the game while unlocking stuff. I feel like that made it a very unique demo too that it would be disappointing if we were just stuck with strictly offline this time.

Last year's demo had the full game for the most part. People have to relax just a little
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Just downloaded it on nz psn store

Where did u find it in PSN store

Is this only available in New Zealand store?

I'm going to wait until it's available for the US. Not exactly sure if I would have to log in/out of my US account everytime, so I'm simply going US official.
New Zealand PSN store NBA Live 18
https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-nz/games/nba-live-18-demo/cid=EP0006-CUSA08562_00-NBALIVE18DEMOEAS

I think it's available for us on xbox one or so I've heard.
Yes. After you play the my career mode for 2 chapters (2 quick cpu pro am ish games) then you unlock playing online with others online, you just have to go back to the main menu for that.