Release date?

[MI-33]

Does anyone have any news on the release date of this game? has it been announced yet?

[BlackIsraelite]

There is no official release date but my guess is October.

[DrofThuganomics1]

Here's an update!

NBA LIVE 13 First Look Trailer - HD - YouTube

NBA Live 13 is, Basically, Delayed, Although This Trailer Suggests It Hasn’t Been Canceled


By :Owen Good

NBA Live 13 is effectively delayed indefinitely. While EA Sports may say the game isn't, technically, delayed because it was never given a release date, the publisher today acknowledged many had expected it to release Oct. 2 alongside competitor NBA 2K13, and said it's giving the NBA Live development team more time to shore up a game that left E3 roundly panned and had gone AWOL in the three months since.

The release of that trailer above, however, at least pushes back speculation that the entire project would be scrapped, the fate that befell its predecessor, NBA Elite 11, back in 2010. But EA Sports provided no guidance on when this game would release, whether that would be in the month of October or even 2012. A release on Oct. 2 would seem to be off the table, though.

An EA Sports spokesman also would not comment on rumors that the game would be released as a download-only version over Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store.

"The team is making steady progress, and we're continuing our work on NBA Live," Andrew Wilson, the executive vice president in charge of the EA Sports label, said in a statement. "We remain focused on rebuilding this franchise for the future."

Another statement from EA Sports acknowledged that customers had been anticipating an Oct. 2 release but "our plan is to release at a later date. We will share more information in the future."

Questioned by Kotaku, an EA Sports spokesman refused to discuss release format, time frame, or the game's anticipated feature set. Asked why this series, which has been off shelves for three years, couldn't hit an Oct. 2 release date with a 70-man team in place for a year, he said:


"We're not going to get into that level of detail with this announcement. In early April, you saw where we were with this project and how ambitious it was, that they had to take down the code of Elite and rebuild it. Its easy to surmise that also took time, in the development cycle, to get the whole thing up to speed. It was an ambitious project and it is a challenging game to create."

Asked if anyone from the NBA Live team had lost his job, Kotaku was told—apparently as a prepared statement—that EA Sports had "no announcements regarding staffing."

NBA Live 13 was moved to EA Sports' Tiburon studio in early 2011 after NBA Elite 11, the successor to NBA Live 10, was canceled one week before its scheduled release in 2010. Much of the first year of development was spent tearing down the last version of the game and salvaging its parts. The current development team didn't hit full strength until about a year ago.

[Chairman Meow]

Anyone who buys this before waiting on reviews and playing a demo is a fool. EA has done nothing to show that this game will be even remotely close to the standard that the past few 2K games have set. The official trailer released today looks like garbage, and the only gameplay footage we've seen (which EA claimed was pre-alpha IIRC, but it's all we have to go on for now) was absolutely terrible.

This "indefinite delay" is just another move that parallels Live 13 with the NBA Elite story, which certainly didn't turn out very well either. It's not that difficult to throw together a trailer in to preempt everyone from assuming that this one will be canceled too. Sorry, I'm not buying it. At this point I wouldn't be at all surprised if this game gets canceled, which would pretty much spell doom for the franchise, and even if it gets released eventually I can't see how it won't be years behind the competition.

I'm not hoping for Live to fail. I have no loyalty to 2K, EA, or any other developer, I'm just going to go with the best basketball game available. Having more options is a good thing, and competition forces everyone to keep pushing to stay at the top of their game. It's just not looking very good right now for the Live franchise.

[CooperFyfe]

Originally Posted by Chairman Meow

It's not that difficult to throw together a trailer in to preempt everyone from assuming that this one will be canceled too.

And it wasn't even a good trailer.

I'm all for competition, force 2K to keep upping their game in order to stay ahead of Live, and end up producing a better game because of it. Looks like it's not going to happen this year though.

[BlackIsraelite]

EA Sports is retarded as hell. They had 2 years to fuckin improve the game but yet turn around and delay the game. They really need to get their shit together. It seems they are going down the drain.

[blevensp1]

I hear it's been cancelled again.

[BlackIsraelite]

If they did cancer l it then they might as well give up on the nba live series and just force on nba live 10 and make a hugh update to bring in these rookies and up to date teams, etc.

[crazyrice24]

game looks like fricking early 2000's graphics. basically the game looks like shit, its horrible.
i hope the game itself is going to be good since i was a Live fan before 2k but damn EA disappoint me big time
i also heard this is coming out as a DLC for $20. i guess im get it for that price but i pray to god that its aleast a average 8/10 game

[BlackIsraelite]

Originally Posted by crazyrice24

game looks like fricking early 2000's graphics. basically the game looks like shit, its horrible.
i hope the game itself is going to be good since i was a Live fan before 2k but damn EA disappoint me big time
i also heard this is coming out as a DLC for $20. i guess im get it for that price but i pray to god that its aleast a average 8/10 game

Wat pissed me off is that they had since like wat 2 to 3 years to fuckin improve that game since the fall of NBA Elite 13. And then here it is 2012 and they still dont have nothing and they cant improve it.

EA is starting to become a bitch now. If the digital does come out it better be worth it.