EA Strikes Back With New Blog

by pastapadre
Posted October 30th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

nbalive101030

Earlier this week controversy arose when a 2K Sports representative criticized the way the NBA Live 10 patch was being received. Rather than respond directly to that statement it seems that EA Sports has taken another approach. With the use of their blog they are now attempting to spread the perception that NBA 2K10 has fallen off this year due consumer reaction to the problems with the game. You can check out the posting that went up earlier today here.

This is the first time where competitors have gone at each other in such a public manner. It started on Twitter, elevated with the 2K statement a few days ago, and now is being used in the marketing. Some will surely like this, believing it will bring out the best in both development teams as they try to outdo each other next year because of the rivalry. There is probably something to that. However it doesn’t make either side look good right now. With basketball being the only sport that really has direct competition it has boiled up into what we’ve seen in the last month.

Despite the advances Live has made it has issues of its own too. The latest patch has brought about a problem where the points from goaltending are not being displayed on the scoreboard for instance. EA would be better off touting some of the areas the game excels in such as the atmosphere rather than pointing out the faults of the competition which are evident without being highlighted in a blog. Personally I would just rather have each side concentrating on their own product.

Update: Kotaku has a take on the EA vs 2K war which you can check out here.

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Britton

Well at least EA is being factual in the blog unlike the 2K guy pretending they havent been working on a patch and ignoring that the Live demo was out so early they could get feedback on it. Lots of 2K fans are upset this year.

valdarez

Factual, possibly, misleading? A lot! I just ran the numbers using vgchartz. Check out the results.

EA sold .18 million units so far.
2K sold .45 million units so far.

This means that 2K Sports sold roughly 150% in addition to what EA sports sold.

Now, a quick search of eBay for used games finds:
17 NBA Live 10 games listed
24 NBA 2K10 games lsited

What? More 2K10 then Live, that must be bad, right? Wrong! Remember, 2K 10 sold 150% more!

There are only 41% more NBA 2K10 games up than NBA Live 10. Take the 150% and the 41% and it's apparent that people who are buying NBA Live are getting rid of their game at a rate of 3 to 1 to those that purchased NBA 2K10.

NBA Live 10 - Change Your Game indeed. For NBA 2K10. :)

@Greqo

That is an EXTREMELY rough 150. You're over exaggeration that part an the 3:1

okafor43

Wouldnt call my self a fan of 2k but I am dissapointed in what they put put this year. I dont see much improvements in the game to be honest other some new features and animations

JJC

Man EA went hard of them dudes at 2k LMAO but like Pasta said Live is far from perfect and I feel that 2k and EA need to just shut up and make thier games better. Point Blank

blondeviking64

agreed

jonathanglapion

a professional approach by the NBA Live Dev team.

ricky

dude your not going to get a job at ea, give it up.

jonathanglapion

I don't need a job at EA \"DUDE\" so give it a rest. If some one doesn't share your opinion it doesn't mean they want a job at the company you don't like.

VeezyF

What an idiot...your not gonna get an EA job fuckbag, you dont have to agree with everything they do like a little puppy.

jonathanglapion

fucking 2K Cloneboys is what i'm calling you guys now, you need to come up with something a little more fucking original than \"you not going to get a job at EA\" that would be assuming I even wanted a fucking job at EA. I guess I could say the same for you, Idiot you aren't going to get a job at 2K but that shit just sounds moronic.

Here lets see if this helps at all. Lets say I like the sony console but you like the xbox. why would I say hey idiot you aren't going to get a job at microsoft just because you prefer that product. now do you see how fucking stupid you sound.

Both games had/have issues out of the box i like the way the NBA Live dev team responded to the shit storm 2K started.

jonathanglapion

fucking 2K Cloneboys is what i'm calling you guys now, you need to come up with something a little more fucking original than \"you not going to get a job at EA\" that would be assuming I even wanted a fucking job at EA. I guess I could say the same for you, Idiot you aren't going to get a job at 2K but that shit just sounds moronic.

Here lets see if this helps at all. Lets say I like the sony console but you like the xbox. why would I say hey idiot you aren't going to get a job at microsoft just because you prefer that product. now do you see how fucking stupid you sound.

Both games had/have issues out of the box i like the way the NBA Live dev team responded to the shit storm 2K started.

pasta's homie

johnny boy give it up beezy already killed your old ass on the other blog!!! you're finished old man nobody gives a shit about how you feel!!! KILL YOURSELF U NUT RAG

JJC

what do his opinion have to do with yalls, gotta be 2k fanboys

jonathanglapion

Yeah they pretty much give themselves away. If you notice I made no reference to "the other game" and these guys damn near melt.

jonathanglapion

are you even old enough to drink? Shut the fuck up when grown folks are talkin little fuckin kid.

jonathan's mother

Jonathan I told you to quit hanging out in my basement all day! You're too old to spend your whole day on this computer and playing NBA Live! Now Jonathan you're 45 years old so I think it's time for you to get a place of your own now. Oh and I found some nude pictures of some guy named Pastapadre under your bed the other night. I'm starting to get a little worried about you son. Now go upstairs and wash up for supper boy!

FUCK JONATHANGLAPION

^^^^^HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

smoketillam

grandpa glapion, you got ripped up in the other forum by beazzy. i am suprised you still show up here. oh yeah, you are way too old to be wearing a headset. give that shit a rest. please dont post any of your pictures online. thanks gramps.

blondeviking64

Here it is Pasta. More nonsense on your page. More "F-yous" and "kill yourselves" on a site that I thought was dedicated to sports games not an internet tough guy site. Please do me a favor and when you catch these rediculous and juvenile messages unrelated to sports or sports game just delete from your site and please also post a warning and possibly block users who arent "mature enough" to post intelligently.

MBEaZy30

'Personally I would just rather have each side concentrating on their own product.'
This is my opinion. I know theyre (both 2k and live) gonna defend their products but lets not get childish about it. Concentrate on making your game better. If you do that, what the opposition does won't matter.

blondeviking64

AGREED BIG TIME

gbrown4

I think 2k10 by a small margin isa better game, but the fact that 2K came out saying anything about the competition after all the framerate and other issues they have with there own game, its a real head scratcher. How about you guys (EA & 2K) take care of the problems before releasing the fucking game!!! I

Mike Barker

I think it's alot more difficult creating great games than people know. Im pretty sure the developers want to make a game that improves a lot from the year before without glitches; plus adding deadlines make it even more difficult.

Samit Sarkar

All this shit-talking is a real turn-off to me. Be proud of your own product, sure, but don't put down the competition. This is ugly.

FrontRunner

Yankees fans are nothing but a bunch of frontrunners lol. The best team that money can buy is struggling in the world Series and to be honest they look like the 2nd best team in this match-up. I can't wait to see all of those fraud fans complain if they lose this WS that would be sooooooooo funny : )

NoFro904

to bad 2k is still better and sells more : )

valdarez

Yeah. A quick search and you can find just as many games asking to sell their NBA Live game. Pretty much a weak attempt on EA. Hope there's not more NBA Live games up for auction, or EA/Live could end up looking pretty foolish. heh

MBEaZy30

and sales matter to you because......

@Greqo

I think you bought 2K JUST to say that. Probably didn't even open it yet..

hawkeye4077

It's expected that 2K would outsell Live because 2K has been the better game for the past 4 years at least. The fact is that Live was bad, real bad until this year. They are not going to win back the majority in 1 year. That said, 2K is a solid game itself; however, I believe Live is the better of the two this year. Obvious, 2k's patch hasn't come out yet and it wouldn't be fair to compare the two right now, because Live has gotten a patch that made a lot of fixes and 2K hasn't had the same luxury.

My point here is that sales shouldn't be the barometer because 2K has built a head start because of the past. I'm sure that many people who support 2K and bought 2k10 feel a little disappointed, even if they don't admit it. So maybe next year they won't just go out and buy 2k without looking at NBA Live first. Live is not a bad game. Maybe it's not better than 2K, but for someone who says that Live 10 sucks or is an arcade game, they have no credibility and are nothing short of a fanboy.

blondeviking64

too bad 2k isnt a good game. Not that NBA Live is either. Seriously though how can people celebrate and fight as retardly over two bad products like people do here. How about people do something like demand a better product off the line rather than making a terrible game and then tryign to patch it later. In my experience as a gamer, the patches often creat strange glitches and can create as many problems as they fix about a third of the time.

Fred

Pretty lame for them to respond that way.

cdub326

Damn straight.

VOR

How many times have you & Pasta responded to criticism directed at you 2 on this site? It wasn't always professional between the both of you. EA has a right to respond and they choose to go by way of customer support. I can't blame them for responding. No product is perfect and it never will be but NBA Live is a great game and doesn't need all the mud 2K wants to throw at it because they are jealous.

jonathanglapion

exactly. What people are failing to realize this is nothing new where product competition is concerned. Don't take my word for just sit back and watch TV the next time a Verizon commercial comes on how the display their 3G coverage vs AT&T. Maybe it's just my "age" that allows me to clearly understand this concept wether I agree with the tactics or not this is nothing new or all that much out of place. I just think EA right or wrong took a more factual approach.

Both games have pros and cons, nothing new.

pastapadre

I generally don't respond because it is without merit. If I did I wouldn't respond by digging through someone's post history history and then doing an article about it which would be comparable to what happened here lol

Fred

Well not only that but I'm not a billion dollar company or represent one. I'm just a guy who posts on a blog site lol.

YvY

ugh. it was ridiculous what ronnie2k said. but ea shouldve just left it at that instead of doing this.

the80sguy

Maybe instead of bitching back and fourth about which game is better, 2K should concentrate on working on a patch to fix all the glitches on the piece of crap they just put out. The season has already started and god knows when the patch is coming out...

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