NBA 2K25 Wishlist

[Andrew]

NBA 2K25 Wishlist

Here is our official NBA 2K25 Wishlist topic! This is the place to post constructive feedback that will be submitted to the NBA 2K Development Team; that means anything from bugs that need fixing, to features that you want to see added or improved upon, to anything else you feel would make future NBA 2K games better.

A couple of notes and important suggestions on how to give the most comprehensive and useful feedback (based on previous conversations with developers):

Important Notes & Suggestions

Please keep this stuff in mind as you're posting your ideas!

• One suggested format is to post your top 15-20 wishes/suggestions for the game, ie. the 15-20 most important things that NBA 2K25 needs to do/add/improve upon. If you have a couple of extra points, that's fine, but try to prioritise. If you don't have that many suggestions, that's fine too; just post the feedback you have and want to share with the developers.
  
  
• Alternatively, post your top ten or so suggestions you have for different aspects of the game, such as gameplay, game modes, presentation, features, and so on. Again, if you have less than ten, no problem. That's a strongly suggested maximum for the lists, not a minimum.
  
  
• Make sure that you elaborate and post further details where necessary. There's no need to write an essay - there's nothing wrong with being brief, direct, and to the point - but saying things like "better gameplay" doesn't give enough feedback. Explain how you want gameplay to get better, what changes are required to see an improvement. Mention specific issues, along with relevant improvements and fixes you want to see. A few sentences or subpoints are fine, and will add clarification.
  
  
• Be constructive! No insults, flaming or bashing in this thread. If you're not interested in providing actual feedback and discussing ways to improve the game, please move along. If you want to vent about NBA 2K43, please feel free to make use of other threads in the Forum, but this is a thread for constructive feedback only. You don't need to sugarcoat things, or hold back on talking about stuff that needs to be fixed, just don't be abusive or needlessly snarky. Explaining what you think is broken or unsatisfactory, and what you want to see changed, is useful feedback. Telling the developers they're stupid, suck, and you hate them, on the other hand, is not.
  
  
• Lists of bugs that haven't been resolved in the NBA 2K24 title updates are also most welcome.

That's about it. Feel free to start posting your ideas and if you have any further questions, just ask. We'll be passing along all feedback in an organised list, which will also contain a "Top Wishes" section based on general consensus.

[Hawksfan18]

Owner mode: where you start off as a unknown person buying a new team and u created that team in your own envision such as u can either relocate the team change logos revamped the arena with city and government help fire and hire staff personnel people having to where u have a process that you would go to in order for the new owner can get approved by the nba governors by a governors vote by the league make it realistic or have a new GM mode or have it combined to where if u started as a new unknown gm that u can actually sign a contract this time with actual goals from the owner that u must meet or u would get fired and etc have it to where once u want to get a promotion u can go to become the new Basketball of Opps and GM too to where u can hired a new gm if u became the new Basketball Opps from that promotion too.

[scootover7]

Things I can think of I'd love to see

1) Be able to sign 10 day contracts

2) Draft List- I would compare this to a draft board a bit, only starting for example 2025 Draft your board might look like this

3 Point Sharpshooter Playmaking specialist 1) Was - Jacob Roberts - PG/SG- 6'6" 225 LBS- Duke - 20 yrs old 7"0"

In the first column you have the playstyle, the second column the number of pick third column, team, fourth column player name, then position or position in 5th column, 6th column height, 7th column weight 8th column College, 9th column players age and 10th column wingspan, you could add an 11th column if you wanted a player or player comparison .

There would be anywhere from 31-37 rows, because you would need one row for the columns, and then how ever many teams from 30-36 .

You would need 10 columns and 31-37 rows, also listed if they were traded on draft and to who under the team name,

when a player in any draft becomes a star either his name is changed to yellow letters or a rectangle would be drawn around his name, if you're not sure what I'm talking about go to Wikipedia and type in for example 2003 draft . So from 2025 to the next 80 years of MyLeague you see the draft list


3) Shaqtin A Fool- would love to see this into the game, per week you can watch the Shaqtin A Fool for that week, it just would be interesting and funny.

4) Scouting- I'd love to be able to watch some highlights of players I've scouted


5) Bring Back Colleges maybe at least 50 Colleges, I wouldn't mind seeing College Games brought back, I know probably not likely


Just some thoughts what do you think

[ThePointForward]

1. Make key game detection logic based on average and not personal best
This is for MyCareer, obviously assuming that key games are making a return in 2K25.
As of now, key games seem to be detected on a basis of personal best which sometimes requires huge feats in key games (or repeat key games).

Example: Franchise single season record for assists.
Player averages 20 assists per game, but one time they broke the NBA record and netted 33 assists.
The key game is triggered when player is missing 28 assists to break the team record.
Desired outcome: game should simulate another game, add 20 assists as per the average and then trigger key game with 8 assists remaining.
Alternatively give player a choice between doing the above or attempting an above average performance.

2. Make scouting/drafting inaccurate for AI
In MyLeague (or MyNBA, but you know what I mean) the scouting and drafting is pretty much perfect. This is best seen with historical starts where old drafts are nowhere near the real drafts, but are instead pretty much perfect.

3. Various other improvements for MyLeague
Ability to retire jerseys, buyout player contracts and other stuff.

4. Take Charles Barkley's offer
You know what I'm talking about. 1 million per year to retired player association.

5. Go F2P already
With the current monetization model it's time to make MyCareer and MyTeam free to play. IIRC the sales went down and after-purchase revenue went up this year.

6. Full offline MyCareer
Can't access online features, but isn't bogged down by online balancing - actually able to create a superstar.

7. PS5 Pro version
Oh and please make it run butter smooth on PS5 Pro. I'll rather have smooth 60 fps experience than some hard to notice extra effects.

[Desal wen]

Bring Back Colleges maybe at least 50 Colleges, I wouldn't mind seeing College Games brought back, I know probably not likely

[Dmayne]

I wish to have:

-Current gen version for PC players.

-Updated tendencies and gear for retro teams.
-Add Warmups for classic teams.
-Full TNT/retro TNT Presentation for current and classic games.
-Retro undershorts, we need a shorter version that works with short shorts or allow us to adjust length on current version.
-Add "Team DNA" Allow us to just download/upload "Edited Teams"(gear/shoes/tendencies/attributes/mins played/coach name/faces/playbooks/etc..). Would be great to just download a updated classic team from the community with accurate (gear/shoes/roster/tendencies) and just drop it into my roster.

ADD TEAMS:
-92-93 Suns (with or without barkley)
-96-97 Rockets (with or without barkley)
-94-95 Pacers (with or without reggie)
-99-00 Pacers (with or without reggie)
-03-04 Pacers (with or without reggie)
-96-97 Pistons
-96-97 Magic
-Classic All-Star Teams
-1992/1996/2008 USA Teams

ADD SHOES:
-Nike Air Go
-Nike Air Flight One
-Nike Air Up
-Nike Zoom Rookie
-Nike Air Max Penny
-Nike Penny IV
-Nike Air Ballistic Force
-Nike Air Flight Lite High
-Nike Air Maestro
-Nike Pippen 1
-Nike Air Force 180
-Nike Air Force Max

[A_Jm93]

My wishlist is purely MyLeague/MyNba/Eras based, as that's the only mode I play.

More choice: It's automated who makes the Hall of Fame and who gets their jersey retired. We should have the choice to choose from the list of recently retired players. It's not always stars who get jerseys retired after all, role players with significantly tenures can receive the honour too.

Career revivals or endings: Retired players making comebacks. Obviously you can make a created player and just import an existing player but it doesn't count towards stats or anything. I feel it's small but would be a cool feature. I feel being able to force a retirement would be something too

Variety of accessories/hair etc.: Given that next gen has MyEras, I feel there should be more variety for era appropriate accessories and haircuts etc. It'd be great just to be able to add goggles or facemasks too. That's not just era specific. In reality, if a player has a significant injury to the face or eyes, that often results in face masks or goggles being worn. And it might sound silly but having more than just one "balding" option for hair would be good.

Better use of half time: As someone previously mentioned, Shaq'tin a Fool would be something cool to have during half time, instead of the poor acts, like trampoline dunkers and a woman doing a circus act. It seems to fall flat even with the virtual audience so something like Shaq'tin would be a massive improvement.