Yeah, NBA 2K has gone from being one of my favorite games with NBA 2K15 to "I will never buy this shit again" with 2K19 (got it as a bundle with Xbox Pro).



Fuck that. I used to love MyPlayer and yet here we are, got to spend minimum $50 on one build now in mtx, high MTX for everything, and now ads.



Live 19 is actually a decent game, getting better and fun to play without any paid MTX on SP to develop the player char (don't think you can buy even cosmetics for that single player).



It really is a complete insanity what they have done with the game series. The base basketball engine is actually really good, they have a decent story every year (well, not a great one but B movie quality) and overall without MTX and enforced terrible performance at lower levels (to force you to buy said MTX), the game would have been great. Yet here we are...