This is a fantastic idea, but it doesn't mesh well with the BEAGM structure. It's an idea I can get behind, but it needs to be fleshed out. The development team, as it is, doesn't have the mental capacity to add this kind of feature. This would require another GM mode maybe labeled "Live" and it would have time constraints. If you didn't sim/play up to this point then your file is converted to "Classic" and or if you went beyond the current NHL season you'd be "Classic". I know that sounds easy, but it's not and the current dev team couldn't implement this. They can barely get the game ready for production before the test cycle as it is...
I'm perfectly okay with those kinds of issues as it's more or less a network engineering issue and less a game development problem. Perhaps 10-20 years ago inefficient game code caused game delay online, but that's largely if not entirely extinct. Any online issues today are almost always related to the host(game servers) and can be easily fixed with the appropriate hardware/setup. Or they'll just leave it up to the users to host, which tons of companies do. Battle.net by Blizzard was the first and best game server I've ever used. I'm not a big online gamer(ever since Activision bought Blizzard) but, I doubt online gaming is anything like it used to be in the heydays of Starcraft. Xbox Live was epic for the first couple years, but quickly became infested after Halo 2. Hmm I got on a bit of tangent there, LOL online gaming can do that to me
2K has been terrible with micro transactions though. I didn't even pick up the latest NBA 2k because of it. Plus all my older NBA games are almost useless since the servers for them are down. f***ing stupid to hide stuff like attributes/ most of the options for CAP, clothing, etc, behind an online only system. My game shouldn't be less functional a year after I bought it because 2k decided to shut down the servers on the game. At least come out with an update before shutting down the servers so that the career mode is functional once they do.
No it's a game development issue. They shut down the servers after a year or two and basically leave you with a game that' only about 60% of what it was when you bought the game. The latest one is even worst. It has nothing to do with lag, it's locking a LOT of content behind an online only connection which as I've said, doesn't change when 2K decides to shut down the servers for the game. Basically your buying a game that's going to have a lot of it's functionality removed whenever 2k decides to shut down their server. For 2k14 that was only about a year after release.I'm perfectly okay with those kinds of issues as it's more or less a network engineering issue and less a game development problem. Perhaps 10-20 years ago inefficient game code caused game delay online, but that's largely if not entirely extinct. Any online issues today are almost always related to the host(game servers) and can be easily fixed with the appropriate hardware/setup. Or they'll just leave it up to the users to host, which tons of companies do. Battle.net by Blizzard was the first and best game server I've ever used. I'm not a big online gamer(ever since Activision bought Blizzard) but, I doubt online gaming is anything like it used to be in the heydays of Starcraft. Xbox Live was epic for the first couple years, but quickly became infested after Halo 2. Hmm I got on a bit of tangent there, LOL online gaming can do that to me
