In a franchise – and, to our knowledge, sports game – first, NBA 2K24 will introduce a paid Battle Pass, which builds upon the existing Seasons feature. For the first time, progression will be unified across MyCAREER and MyTEAM, so you won’t have to earn rewards individually. All of the existing unlockable items – a total of 40 across both modes – will continue to be available for free.
The big change, however, is the option to pay $9.99 per season for the Pro tier, which will grant an additional 40 Premium rewards, as well as two bonus MyCAREER and MyTEAM items at the point of purchase. There’ll also be a Hall of Fame option, including one additional immediate reward, a 15 per cent XP booster, and 10 level skips.
Obviously, this is more or less in line with what other games are doing, but the additional monetisation may grate among those who already feel the basketball sim’s overreliance on microtransactions is far too distracting. We suppose it all depends on what those Premium rewards include; 2K Sports would argue this is merely a value add, with the existing free Battle Pass unchanged.
The proof, as always, will be in the pudding.
[source newsroom.2k.com]
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This needs to stop. The only way they can justify this is by going free-to-play.
I'm not familiar with the multiplayer component of NBA 2k - does this mean that VC will no longer be used to increase your player's abilities in my career?
I stopped playing these games a long time ago.
I've been playing 2K every year since the Dreamcast launch and am an avid MyTeam player. This is unfortunate news.
Keep buying it people thats the way to show them. You pay €70 also with the headline free PS5 upgrade the price for the game €90. 😅
Reviewers they should be way less lenient towards this. To much monetization should mean points deducted.
Just like free to play games their are almost a job. Daily login bonus, errands its not about having fun anymore.
@Excess You pay the full price.
You get more monetization then a free to play game with ingame adds as a extra.... Maybe we do need a new videogame crash like the 80's.
@pyrrhic_victory Of course not!
@pyrrhic_victory that v will still be around and still be exploited by execs....
This is rather disgusting. And I guarantee it's stuff in the pass that has pay to win components.
@get2sammyb It's just that, to my knowledge, you don't really use XP in My Career - so I was curious how the two modes would be unified. But yeah, it does seem far-fetched that take two would do away with it
I wish parental mode kept all micro transactions from even popping up on the screen
I used to love sports games. Now pretty much all of them are cash grabs. It's sad.
@Stnkygrngo Absolutely - but they're probably afraid too many adults would just turn on parental mode for themselves to avoid all the ads. I know I would.
Wow. I thought they already went as far as they could, putting free-to-play monetization garbage in a full-priced $70 ($90 CDN) game. Leave it to 2K, they stuffed in another one. This’ll make EA jealous (at least until they put it in their sports games).☹️
EA Sports PGA Tour beat them to this, introduced a premium tier to unlock rewards a week or so ago
So you unlock free points and items through your play, but you get more credits/bonus items if you activate the premium pass. (It is kind of exactly like Diablo IV in its aggressive placement too)
But, what I will say is, in this case, it made it so it actually rewards free play a lot more than it previously did. So it's more of an add on option if you really, really want certain items, but the regular player is already better off with this system. For now...
But, I can imagine this will be in EAFC and all other EA games before you know it, so it might vary case to case how greedy it becomes.
Remember when some said $70 games would mean no microtransactions?
well i got the game but they aint getting me on this
At least fix the gameplay first. 2K9 (no less on a now-relic console) IMO was far superior to the current offering.
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