Why Does NBA 2K have 99% of Legends While The Show Barely Has Any?
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Yes it has everything to do with the players association, you have to be part of it your entire career to be in the game but you also have the right to decline to be in the game which alot of former players have but then you have others who have done something off the field so SDS removed them all together like Kenny Lofton
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Springfield, MA has only 150 player inductees, with a majority of them coming post 1970s.
Cooperstown has 270 inducted players, with over 75% coming pre 1970s. -
@sbchamps17_NSW said in Why Does NBA 2K have 99% of Legends While The Show Barely Has Any?:
Yes it has everything to do with the players association, you have to be part of it your entire career to be in the game but you also have the right to decline to be in the game which alot of former players have but then you have others who have done something off the field so SDS removed them all together like Kenny Lofton
I'm going to guess that the majority of MLB alumni wouldn't care about cashing free checks for having their likenesses used. I'm also going to guess that certain deals cut into more of the budget than anticipated, and now we'll see budget-friendly names until Sony sees greater returns in revenue. Given how Sony/SDS is monitizing this game to death, that may not happen for a while. Hope I'm wrong, though.
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One Franchise net worth Starts with B while the other is just an M...
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@GixxerRyder750_PSN said in Why Does NBA 2K have 99% of Legends While The Show Barely Has Any?:
One Franchise net worth Starts with B while the other is just an M...
The NBA alumni are also getting robbed blind on their video game deals—like, only $500 per player. I believe that's what Barkley said.
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NBA had a lot less players and also been around almost half the time as thr MLB. Many of the NBA legends are still alive too. Many of the MLB are not.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Why Does NBA 2K have 99% of Legends While The Show Barely Has Any?:
Springfield, MA has only 150 player inductees, with a majority of them coming post 1970s.
Cooperstown has 270 inducted players, with over 75% coming pre 1970s.Good point on HOF but I don't understand why there are more smaller MLB names that they don't have the rights to.
We're constantly coming up with massive lists of lesser known but potentially interesting players.
And I'm surprised these lesser known players that probably made less money in their careers would turn down checks for doing nothing.
If I was a lesser known player I'd probably even give them my rights for free because it would just be cool for my kids to see me in the game.
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@virusts_XBL said in Why Does NBA 2K have 99% of Legends While The Show Barely Has Any?:
NBA had a lot less players and also been around almost half the time as thr MLB. Many of the NBA legends are still alive too. Many of the MLB are not.
Yeah but again I'm talking about lesser known but interesting guys from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
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There are fewer legends this year than there have been in a long time. Far too many recycled players with multiple cards. Im just speculating but I suspect it has to do with economics. Sony has made cuts across the board b/c growth has stagnated/corrected post-pandemic and the isolation surge. Happening across the gaming environment. Except for the Negro League players, this year’s version of the game has been a noticeable step back across the board. I imagine it has to do with these budget and staff cuts. Seems that would apply to budgets allocated to players for usage rights. Another factor could be the corporate partnership with Topps.
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Rather than add new players, I would rather they focus on retaining the players they already have/had. Losing Jimmie Foxx, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, and other pre-1950s stars is a huge bummer.
This game is an important avenue for teaching the next generation about the history of the game. Obviously SDS believes in that mission because they spent a lot of time and money to put together the (excellent!!) lineup of Negro League players. But there are huge gaps in history that SDS could easily fill. I was lucky to have a dad who raised me on stories of the early legends when I was little (because his dad taught him about all those same players when he was little). A kid who just discovers baseball on his or her own probably won't even know where to begin when learning baseball history.
Baseball has always been a sport about tradition and respecting the history of the game. I think MLB:TS is an important part of that goal, and SDS is not as successful in doing their part as they could be.
