NBA 2K has given a colossal reminder to each and every player of the game for this reason. Regardless of whether you have already been working hard in this season or not, your choice is whether to heed or not. The official Twitter account of NBA 2K made a tweet that goes as a warning that all your Season Levels, for which you have put in so much effort, and those precious 2XP coins are now in danger if you do not make use of them before the deadline. To be honest, all that will disappear when the new season kicks off on Friday. Therefore, in case you have a lot of coins and have also not yet redeemed your rewards for leveling up, you have a few days to sort that situation out before the reset gets done.
Nonetheless, the reactions to this tweet are very different from the melancholic social media posts. Apparently, the community used this notification as the perfect opportunity to express all their grievances about the game, such as things that have always annoyed them in the past. They generated a flood of complaints, suggestions, and sheer frustration. The announcement of the end of the season was intended as a guide, but it just instead opened the floodgates for users to tell 2K about all the wrongs.
Let us then, wade through the storm right away, shall we? Garf Gambino, one of the players, asserts that he has a really mean bug that he is working on and it sounds really gruesome. He says when he plays MyCareer offline, the stats of his character, which should read 85 three-pointers and 99 rebounds, plummet completely to a 25 overall. He is literally crying out to the makers to correct this problem and you can easily detect the irritation from the comments. The next case is that of KingGucci_13 who just states that he never received his rewards from the Poseidon reef, which is yet another problem. Not being given items that are rightfully yours when playing a game is just a nightmare.
Complaints about gameplay… ah yes, they are literally everywhere. K is one player simply telling park players they are spamming threes because they are too scared to go down low, which is a typical community roast of 2K. Digital Misfit made the demand for 2K not to forget to fix the dunk meter and to buff defense in general because people are just dribbling through defenders as if they were not there, and he had a whole list of things he wanted. COREY x COREY even went a step further, basically saying ‘forget about a new quilted fleece, FIX THE PAINT DEFENSE.’ It seems the defensive part of the game is currently the main source of dissatisfaction for a large portion of the community.
Then comes the single-player community, which raises its own concerns. A user named Cicero is going nuts because he cannot finish an NBA MyCareer match. He claims he has replayed the Bucks game three times because the game constantly fails to connect with the 2K servers, which is a bit too much for a so-called single-player experience. That is the kind of situation that would make anyone want to just switch off the console and never play again.
Not all players were just complaining. Some offered advice, like bringing back BAPE clothing into the game or allowing gamers to buy Kobe’s gear. Also, there were some questions regarding the game’s aesthetic choices. One user, iQueue211, posed a very reasonable question: why do players need to redeem their season levels manually? Why can’t they be granted automatically just like the objectives are? It was a valid point that revealed some of the tension in the game’s reward system.
And, of course, the whole discourse about the seasonal resets is still to be resolved. Some gamers, like TeeJayTheArtist and Balls, are begging for their coins and progress to be transferred to the new season. They are almost labeling the reset as a desperate cash-grab move by the developers. Simultaneously, one user bluntly said just ‘quit fucking resetting them,’ which somehow encapsulates that side of the argument. On the other hand, _MambaForever_ challenged 2K to truly bring it in Season 3 and give the players a reason to log in that isn’t just opening packs every week.
There is still gigantic perplexity concerning the entire matter. On one hand, the developers are using brute force to keep the game alive and enthralling. On the other hand, the community, who feel their rights have been trampled over by the constant end-of-season warnings and neglected in terms of basic game play flaws not being fixed. The season end notification was intended as a mere warning but ended up as a community feedback session, and the majority of the feedback was discontent.
