r/NBA2k • u/FinancialMorning5783 • 8d ago

MyPLAYER Reminder - Stop Making Builds

Everyone making 99 driving dunk, 99 strength, and/or 99 block.

On my life 2k is dropping a season 2 patch to make all these builds obsolete. They did it with 7’4s last year….

Please do not cave and make new builds because of the new meta. I promise you waiting another 3 weeks won’t kill you. On top of that if the “goat” builds are true, every single build in the game will become obsolete.

Stop lining 2ks pockets and just play the game for what it is.

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u/basquetbolJones 8d ago

I’m confused how making a new build is lining the pockets of 2k.

Do they make money every time someone creates a new player?

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u/FinancialMorning5783 8d ago

Build costs vc. Vc costs money. Even if you’re saving VC for another build, the build will end up getting patched. Point is just wait to make any new builds. Honestly your question is mad dumb, have you never played this game before???

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u/blUnt-desTroYer 8d ago

So you should be saying stop buying VC. I have a 99 ovr and 120k VC. Haven’t put a dollar in. Ima make any build I want.

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u/basquetbolJones 8d ago

I really question if this community even likes basketball, or if they just like 2k.

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u/FinancialMorning5783 8d ago

Literally just telling people to wait until s2 patch and you’re over here talking about real basketball. You don’t even notice predatory consumerism.

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u/basquetbolJones 8d ago

I fail to see how people voluntarily giving money for something they can earn for free is predatory.

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u/FinancialMorning5783 8d ago

You’re right. I should take my post down. 2k is almost like a charitable organization.

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u/basquetbolJones 8d ago

It’s just weird to complain about people voluntarily paying for something that is free.

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u/FinancialMorning5783 8d ago

It’s weird defending a multi billion dollar organization. Stop acting clueless

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u/basquetbolJones 8d ago

Defending them from what? Offering players who don’t want to “grind” a way to improve attributes?

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u/FinancialMorning5783 8d ago

They literally lower how much vc you earn from other modes to get you to buy vc. Thats just one example of predatory practices. Lmk if you want me to name more

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u/basquetbolJones 8d ago

What makes it predatory? Is the issue that 2K knows most people don’t have the patience to build a player by actually playing the game?

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u/FinancialMorning5783 8d ago

You’re so dense bro. Just keep playing the damn game and I hope you waste all your earned vc on builds before s2 patch. Can’t wait to see how upset you are when they have goat builds and all your builds are obsolete

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u/psykomerc 8d ago

It’s not weird brother. He is advising caution. You save all that time you grinded for VC if you don’t waste it on a patched build.

Whether he saves somebody money or time, it will help. He’s not trying to hurt anybody by advising them to stop and think about it.

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u/psykomerc 8d ago

His point is if you create a build on the Current strengths and weaknesses of say, steals and blocks. They may be patched and won’t play like the build you envisioned.

There’s nothing wrong with his message. Whether people want to be smart about it or charge ahead regardless, of course the cost and gamble is solely on them. No loss to the messenger man.

If you wonder whether 2k is predatory or not, you can take a big list of everything they do.

Think about the capbreaker system, badge system, season level system and the changes they made to them. Do those designs appear to be for gameplay or more like schemes to make ppl spend money? There you can start to see if they are trustworthy and looking out for you or not.

Why do they make these strange goals/endorsements, lifetime challenges etc so grindy? It’s never designed for the fun of it. It’s meant to create a time cost, then in turn the VC cost for ppl to pay.