Missing Players?

by **thebow305** on Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:35 am

I am just starting to play NBA Live 08 for the first time (Very late, I know) and I just noticed that a couple big time players are missing. 07 Draft picks Joakim Noah, Yi Jianlian and Julian Wright are all missing, as well as Jamario Moon.

I'm sure this has been discussed, but I couldn't find another thread about it. So what's the deal here!?

Does anyone have some insight here, or know the best way of going about getting these guys on my game?

by **CKal** on Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:59 am

That is what this forum is for - patches.

Check this thread out.

by **thebow305** on Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:22 pm

I have NBA Live 08 for PS2, does this include that?

by **CKal** on Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:31 pm

There is currently no way to patch PS2, as far as I know.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:48 pm

In a nutshell, all NBA games have a set cutoff date that is set by the NBA itself. Any players who are not under contract by this date cannot legally be included and thus do not appear in the game. It's not laziness or a mistake on EA Sports' part, it's simply a legal issue.

by **thebow305** on Mon Jun 09, 2008 3:18 am

They need to find a way to resolve that. It's retarded, the NFL does it.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:29 am

Different league, different rules when it comes to licensing rights.

by **Officer Clancy** on Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:23 am

CKal wrote:There is currently no way to patch PS2, as far as I know.

If you don’t mind doing the work, you can create these players yourself, edit the teams' rosters, and save to your PS2 card. There are some people on this forum that have a real knack for doing cyber faces. Maybe they will help you out. As for the other info- shooting, dribbling, and rebounding ability, etc- you can get those stats too.

I have found that cyber faces in Live transfer perfectly over to the PS2- in other words, the faces are identical if you use the same face settings. I also found little difference in the sliders- maybe I’m wrong here, but, I used some PC sliders in my PS2 and found the gameplay decent.

Best of both worlds is Live played w/a controller. Some HD TVs allow you to hookup your laptop for large screen play; no HD though.

by **teddyboy09** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:29 pm

A way for EA to solve this is, whoever's drafted should be in the Free Agent pool by default unless signed before the cutoff. It may be quite a bit of work, but at least when some player is missing from the game, it definitely won't be a draft pick, right? Whoever's undrafted and is signed after the cutoff date would be the only player-related worries of the gamers, right?

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:40 pm

Wrong. If a player isn't under contract by the cutoff date he cannot be included in the game, period. It doesn't matter whether he's placed in the Free Agent pool or on the team that drafted him. If EA Sports do not own his likeness rights, he cannot be included in any form.

There are a few exceptions since EA does sign a limited number of rookies to appear in the game, completely seperate to their NBA contracts. Everyone else is subject to the cutoff date though.

by **teddyboy09** on Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:18 pm

Oh, okay; I understand now. Yeah, it does leave EA no choice if said player hasn't been signed yet.

I'd want them to expand Create-a-Player even by just a bit though; that would help a whole lot IMO.

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