NBA Live 13 Appears To Be Digital Release – Should It End Up Releasing At All

by pastapadre
Posted August 22nd, 2012 at 12:15 pm

The leaked gameplay footage of NBA Live 13 has given even more credence to the idea that it could end up being a digital download rather than retail release. Everything continues to point towards that as the strategy EA Sports is going with – or was planning to anyway – even if it would be yet another major mistake on their part.

The footage of the menu showed an “Exit Game” option which is present with digital downloads offering the ability to drop back to the dashboard. The prominence of the leaderboards is another sign of this as normally that would be tucked away in the Xbox Live area of a full retail product. It also looks fairly thin in terms of options and it would be no surprise to find out a downloadable-only NBA Live wouldn’t be as fully featured as a comparable retail product – unless the price was still locked in at the standard $60. There have been no indications the NBA would allow a lower price point and certainly 2K Sports would object to their competitor getting an unfair advantage in the marketplace particularly when they have been the successful ones as of late.

It would not at all be surprising if this was an orchestrated leak by EA Sports to gauge reaction to the game. They’re at a spot – right now – where a decision would best be made on cancelling or delaying. They got their answer swiftly and nearly unanimously from those who watched the video. An outright cancellation ultimately would be far less damaging than a delay so that would be the odds-on favorite at this point.

EA has had numerous opportunities to change the story on NBA Live 13 from one of uncertainty and skepticism to that of their vision of the product. It wouldn’t take much to simply throw down an intended release date and make a statement that they still believe in it. They’ve failed to do so however only cementing the perception that Live 13 is in big trouble. The leaked footage would seem to be another incentive for them to get out and show what they have if they don’t feel it is representing the product they apparently plan to release. If they take no action within the coming days that’ll speak volumes – but at this point they’ve done plenty of that already.

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GOD

I have this game on a disk because i can
kjjnesb

I hope the NBA strips them of the license and gives another developer a chance. EA has failed twice now to represent the NBA product to even near the standards that they represent the NFL FIFA NHL Boxing hell I bet upcoming UFC game gets more attention and vision than EA gave the NBA the last 2 yrs.
- hungryandrew
  
  Geesh its not a exclusive NBA license, moron, this isnt madden!!
  - Crimson
    
    It’s not my asshole either so dont let go!
  - kjjnesb
    
    I’m aware of that but as long as both EA and 2K are currently eating the NBA game profit pie and have a license it makes no sense for a 3rd competitor to jump in. Not only would they have to compete with 2K but the threat of the EA brand and possibility one day getting there stuff together.
    
    I’m merely suggesting the NBA cancel their agreement with EA and give another company an opening no need to resort to insult dude.
asmckenna1215

Perhaps they will also release it on a floppy disk, or a Gamecube CD
Keith.

This game is going to be great!
- Dennis Cribbs
  
  lol
  - Keith.
    
    I am being serious this game is going to be kick ass.
    - keef
      
      I am so ready for this game, I got my KY jelly and everything!
- Keith.
  
  Someone posting as me again.
  - Keith.
    
    Someone posting as me again! I can not help it if I am a flaming homosexual god damnit.
  - Bon
    
    Its probably Daley
NICK THE DICK

Pasta, nobody gives a FLYING FUCK about this game!! Why are you even wasting space on your site posting this shit? Hit us with some more info about NBA 2K13 if you wanna post something about a basketball game!
- MY_WORD
  
  Pasta is secretly a fan of Live basketball. He’s gotta write these articles cover his idenity.
- Jonathan Glapion
  
  isn’t this a site that blogs and reports about sports gaming. Why the fuck wouldn’t the info be reported by HIM on HIS site that you’re seem to be wasting you fucking time posting on. Dumb ass!
  - NICK THE DICK
    
    Wow! Are you a fucking retard or what? Can you even put a sentence together?
    
    “That you’re seem to be wasting you fucking time on?” LOL!
    
    I’M the dumb ass? Not hardly. Go back to school and learn how to post correctly before you talk shit you dumb fuck!
    
    Like I said, nobody gives a fuck about this game and it’s a waste of space!
    - Riposte
      
      But if similar treatment was given to NBA 2K13 then you’d be arguing that Pasta wasn’t giving fair treatment. It’s Journalism man, he’ll cover both of them, even if it turns out to be bad, and that’s how it should be. If you’ve gotta problem with that, create a rival blog and cover it, y’know because he hasn’t posted any gameplay footage of 2K13 in forever. How about stop calling people dumb-asses and what-not, and maybe, just read the 2K13 coverage instead of having a tantrum in the middle of the comment section that all of us can see? Speaking on behalf of the 7 people that downvoted you.
- http://twitter.com/TreyIM2 TreyIM2
  
  You sound real ignorant and have enough lack of self awareness of your ignorance to talk garbage about someone else. Smh. Jonathan has a point even if should have said “you” instead of “you’re”. Could be auto-complete in effect on his phone, there, but ignorant, small minded ppl like you would pick at something like that instead of getting the overall point. Maybe you feel stupid that he actually belittled your dumb point and really had no intelligent comeback because there is no intelligent comeback to his point. His point made complete sense.
  - Shaqueeta
    
    Damn Trey, you sure are a little sensitive, corrective type of dyke bitch…aren’t you? Bitch please. Nobody on the internet cares about petty little bitches that act like you are acting right now. All indignant and shit. Bitch, you can’t see us and we cant see you. So why all the uppityness? We don’t give a fuuuuuck.
  - NICK THE DICK
    
    Yeah, maybe he could just be a dumb ass too, which is probably the case. Why are you dick ridin’ dude anyway? You must be his bitch, LOL! He didn’t belittle my point, it is a waste of space to post anything on this turd of a game regardless of what type of forum this is. How the fuck is he gonna belittle my point when his dumb ass can’t even put a correct sentence together? You need to get dude’s dick out your mouth Gay Trey. You look like a bitch when you dick ride another dude.
Big Chris

EA fucked up when they went away from the NBA Live 10 formula and tried to change it to NBA Eilte. Live 10 was actually a good game and they seemed to be headed in the right direction if they had just built on that. They need now to just give it up altogether cause now they just look ridiculous.
- http://twitter.com/TreyIM2 TreyIM2
  
  Agreed although I did have fun with the Elite 11 demo. I dug the controls.
- kung fu joe
  
  This is so true. NBA Live 10 was a step up from previous Lives and it looked like EA FINALLY would get it right and give 2K a nice battle for the future. Why they chose to scrap it and go the Elite route is beyond me. I just don’t know what those guys were thinking.
Tim747

Digital or retail, no ones going to buy this. They are much better off just cancelling it again rather than embarrassing themselves with a product that looks like its at least five years behind. As 2k did with its NHL series, give it up EA. 2k wins basketball.
KD

where are all the clowns out there that said they would buy Live over 2k13?? HAHAHA
- Keith.
  
  Right here sir, and I will still be buying the game because the leaked video was a 4 months early build, it wasn’t the final build.
  - Crimson.
    
    Wow Keith you turned on me ;(
    - Crimson
      
      HILARIOUS! You almost got me, but there is one tiny little thing you neglected to do when you used the name Crimson. You, who are trying post as Crimson and Keith. Though, I must admit, I already know who you are. I’m smarter than the average bear with a picnic basket.
      - Crimson
        
        Keith were are you baby I miss you a lot.
      - Crimson
        
        Wow. Now that’s just stupid. Slow down little fella. Think about what you want to say, make sure it’s funny, and then…post it. But Crimson @ Crimson???? Damn…that’s sad.
        
        Go stand in the corner and take a time out. You’re too stupid to be around us right now.
      - Crimson
        
        wow Crimson @ Crimson??? are you serious???? Keith come save me!!!
      - Skopin
        
        You respond to yourself all the time, rather than just editing your post.
      - daley7199
        
        Dude you spend every day pontificating about how good one video game is over another and you have the audacity to claim that you are “smarter than the average bear with a picnic basket.”
        
        I must say that is the most laughable thing I have read all day. Why don’t you try to figure out why your life is so lame as that the only enjoyment you have is dissing a video game that you neither play or would even buy.
        
        You truly are quite the dim person. You pay 60 bucks each year for a broken game with a roster update and you say YOUR smart. EA may fail but that’s not our failure its theirs, so why do you keep trying to make it like its OUR GAME. Last time I checked my name isn’t in the credits just like your dumb ass isn’t in 2k’s credits. So stop with the dick riding and get a life. Perhaps you can take that 60$ your going to spend on NBA2k11.2 and get a life. Just saying.
      - Crimson
        
        @ daley7199
        
        My dearest Frasier Crane, your favorite EA NBA game is taking another shit. Prescribe yourself something for the pain, and fucking get over it. Stop writing these whole big ass excerpts from your psychology class in video game forums. I, and many others here, don’t give a fuck about you trying to be an intellectual videogame blogger. Fuck you bitch. Just sayin…
      - dude
        
        LIVE AIN’T COMING OUT I WAS RIGHT! LMAO SUCKS TO BE DALEY
  - Sniper
    
    You won’t be buying it because it will be canceled, believe me.
  - Crimson
    
    LOL. You are a hopeful idiot. You definitely aren’t the original “Keith”who shares useful information. I think you should call yourself “StupidKeith” instead, so you don’t confuse anybody any further.
Crimson

They should release it in a blank game case, with a plain brown wrapper and sell it at swap meets for $5.

I cringe every time I hear that lame slogan, “EA Sports. Its In The Game”. I’m always thinking, “it may be in somebody ELSE”S game, but it definitely ain’t in YOUR fucking game. YOUR game is always the same old rehashed fucking garbage as the last one, and “IT” wasn’t in “THAT” fucking game either. Please EA, hurry up and find a buyer who’s willing to pay 20 bucks a share, and fire the football and basketball devs.
- Keith.
  
  You have no clue what you are talking about.
  - Keith.
    
    Not me, Crimson.
    - Crimson
      
      I know. LOL…somebody is truly butthurt about their EA NBA game going down in flames again.
      - Keith.
        
        I am here to save you hunny!
- http://twitter.com/TreyIM2 TreyIM2
  
  I’m assuming that u think that 2K doesn’t rehash. 2K is not perfect, buddy, and neither are their games.
  U also need to understand, EA and 2K usually have about 10mos of dev time between each sports game release. To me, 2K’s sports engines are more flexible than EA’s so they can do more with them and also, team size, talent and amount of free reign weigh in.
  Remember, Visual Concepts originally made Sega Sports 2K games and they are now 2KSports. VC USED TO dev Madden and they defected, so to speak. Seems they made sports engines better than what was created for EA Sports seemingly because they had more freedom to do so but they had their EA experience and tech to build on as a foundation.
  That being said, Live 13 is definitely going to be DLC and looks like it will suck
  - Crimson
    
    Wow, you wasted all that time telling me some shit that you thought only you knew?
    
    Go away son . I’ve been playing these games since way before the night your dad’s condom broke in that red barn.
    - http://twitter.com/TreyIM2 TreyIM2
      
      Ur corny, dude, all day, everyday.
      - Crimson
        
        Oh….I’m corny? LOL…..hey next time don’t start off on a so called fucking lecture on the history of Visual Concepts by assuming shit, ok? I’ve been a fan of VC’s games since the beginning and I’ve been playing these games a looong time son. You mad?
      - Crimson
        
        I suck penis
      - Keith.
        
        so do I
    - Crimson
      
      My name is Crimson and I truly do not have a clue with what I am saying when it comes to video games, I am truly sorry if I upset anyone on this message board.
- The Rock
  
  The Rock says this,” Lets take a digital iron toe boot, dust that sum bitch off, turn it side ways and kick it straight the up the low class, game creatin trash, that is EA.” IF YOU SMEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE ROCK!!!!!!!!………… IS COOKIN
  - Tee
    
    Aren’t you supposed to “shine” the boot up Rocky instead of dusting it off? Please don’t hurt me for questioning the Great One
http://twitter.com/Starfoxleon The Great Leon

Terrible they should just cut their losses. Save the money they use for dev team an give it to NCAA and Madden because those two can still get way better.
thbends

They should just give it away for free. Even then I’m not sure I would want it taking up space on my hard drive.
- Crimson
  
  By the way I keep my hard drive in my ass.
Crimson

You know where I got my name? It’s because I surf the crimson wave everyday. And some people thought it was weird that a male would be experiencing such a thing, so they called me Crimson. I took the name to heart, so now I go to message boards where people are sharing their positive reflections on games and bring nothing but dread under the false guise of the truth. Signed your local friendly neighborhood Crimson.
- Crimson
  
  I posted this because I feel everyone in this message board loves me and wants to hear my life story.
  - Crimson
    
    Wow. Really? Is that how I got my name? Sooo sad that this discussion of NBA Live 13 is hurting you so much that you want to turn the focus on me and Keith. Why? We didn’t make the game. We just called it for what it was. Garbage. Just like Madden and NCAA football. Don’t get mad bro. Handle it like a man. By the way….has anybody read a single post in this thread by Skopin today? Juuuuuuuust curious.
    - Crimson
      
      Has anyone read any of my post today? Juuuuuuuuuuust curious to see how many of you want to lick my butthole.
      - Crimson
        
        I’m sorry if the people on the boards don’t quite understand how all this works yet. I’m right. My opinions are spot on and reflect the true nature of everything concerning video games. If you don’t agree you’re soley in denial. I’m cock sure that everyone wants the same things from the games as I do. And Keith can tell you about my cock.
      - Enough is enough
        
        “Cock sure”? Who in the fuck ever says that? Definitely not Crimson. Dude, just shut up. Seriously. Shut up.
      - Keith.
        
        I sure can
    - Skopin
      
      Wow, can you be more of a hypocrite?
      
      I’m sorry that I work and don’t have free time to call you out in your stupidity.
wolf onatshirt

Is EA deliberately trying to fail?
NELL86

Dear EA can we just stop making basketball and work on bringing back mvp baseball
thanks
- Crimson
  
  Dear EA I like your games and everything but, you know sometimes your games are so good i get the urge to you know do the thingy in the disc hole.
Hungryandrew

Released to the morgue
- Crimson
  
  Release my butthole keith.
Hungryandrew

Obviously a digital download, we wouldnt want to damage and pollute Earth’s landfills with all the discarded NBA Live discs that people refused to buy. At least Live 13 thinks green!
- Crimson
  
  Also I am openly homosexual, My lovers name is Keith.
jz

To be honest if I worked at EA I would just release NA Live digital for free this year. Take a hit and hire good people to fix this mess of a game for next gen consoles.
whitewatermoose

I know I am going to ridiculed for this idea. But I am fairly educated. So please hear me out. EA should release the product for free if it is playable. Not the demo, the whole game. Allow players worldwide to comment on what’s wrong with the game, and what they would like to see fixed. If the game is in a non savable state. Release NBA Live 10 for free as a download with updated rosters. Promise everyone the gameplay will receive an additional gameplay patch by All-star break 2013. All EA would have to say is “We are sorry for the quality of the previous basketball games this generation. We offer you NBA Live 10 (updated) as a free download, to let you the fan know, we haven’t abandoned you. We look forward to dominating the court in the Next-Gen.”

This would receive accolades for sure. It would also build some good will for EA Sports with the fans. The only sticking point, would be getting the NBA to sign off. I am not sure it isn’t win, win for all parties in the long run. 2K would be pissed. But it could even bring new players to 2k. So if 2k looked at it as an opportunity, they could capitalize.
SonnyMalkovich

Whoever is responsible and if this ever gets released they should be FIRED!! What a joke EA has become. We had to wait almost 3 years to end up seeing this piece of turd of a game??
Dee-rock

presentation and sound was on point….thats about all I can say.
tish

Whoever is spamming the comments pretending to be Keith and Crimson deserves to be banned. They contribute nothing to the conversation.
Sam

i wonder how there was nobody at the dev. team saying:”LOOK, THIS GAME LOOKS UGLY”… I mean seriously, this shit looks like Live 05… I feel sorry for the EA Fans whove been waiting two years and get dissapointed again… 2K all the way…
clubsteve

how can THIS compete with 2k13?……good luck, ea. in hindsight, they should have concentrated on the fiba license and released a fiba only game….like fifa for soccer.
Eric

The word that keeps coming to mind when I think of this situation is sad. Not that I’m sad, but EA’s handling of the NBA Live series is. I’ve never been an NBA fan in general, but I thought NBA Live 10 was a fun game. It definitely wasn’t on par with 2K, but it seemed like they were moving in the right direction. But instead of building on that, they decided to pretty much scrap the whole thing and try something completely different with Elite and it blew up in their faces. And now, we’re talking about the possibility of them cancelling a second straight release? I don’t see how they can recover from that. NBA Live’s been around since the Sega Genesis days and now it’s circling the drain over what looks like some very poor decision making on EA’s part.
daley7199

This point has already been addressed at E3. The game will release retail. The fact that it may be a D/L is IN ADDITION TO retail copies. Why is this point so hard to comprehend. PS3 has plenty of Retail copies that can ALSO be downloaded.

I get Pasta is succumbing to the 2k dickrider pressure to bash EA so he is manufacturing bullshit storylines. everyone knows that there is no official info on this game yet so any article that pasta posts on this is pure speculative bullshit.
- Riposte
  
  It should also be mentioned that the retail copies of games that can be downloaded (if they are the ones I’m thinking of) are the same ones that show up in XBLA, like Gotham City Imposters, and usually don’t go over $15. So basically this will be a downloadable title.
- http://pastapadre.com/ pastapadre
  
  I was all over NBA Elite 11 that summer…and it ended up getting canceled.
  
  If something isn’t right I’m going to do what I can to expose it.
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nastradamus

When I saw the NBA Live 13, I was a “BIT” impressed with their ESPN presentation, but when the game started??? I was like, “Ei bro, are you seein this shit???!!” They can’t be serious with this are they?? I know its an early build but come on EA, its almost September and you guys are not releasing any updates to get the gamers attention… so maybe thats the reason people will still choose 2K over LIVE… feed our desires and curiosity…
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