2K Patches in Always Online DRM to Next-Gen NBA2K14

December 9th, 2013 at 7:23 am by Jeremy Conrad

2K has just ruined one of the best-looking next-gen games…

Following the Xbox One reveal, gamers revolted against its “always online” DRM policies that would prevent you from playing a single-player game if you weren’t connected to the internet. People made it very clear to Microsoft that they don’t want that for their games, and MS made a quick 180 earlier this summer when they saw how low their pre-order numbers were.

Unfortunately this anger was lost on 2K, who has just patched-in an always online requirement for the Xbox One and PS4 versions of NBA2K14.

Now you cannot play a single-player match in the game offline. If you’re in the middle of a game and lose connection or get signed out of XBL/PSN you’re immediately kicked to the main menu without any sort of “grace period”.

The worst part about this addition is that it came now. They didn’t have this always online “DRM” when the game was being reviewed prior to launch. Instead they waited for the game to get glowing reviews, for many people to pick it up as a launch title, and then they patched in the DRM without any warning what-so-ever.

This is pretty shady if you ask me…

Source: http://furiousfanboys.com/2013/12/2k-patches-in-always-online-drm-to-next-gen-nba2k14/

Bullshit cause PSN just went down.

What I mean is, this is fucking bullshit, and PSN is down the whole day. FUCK.

Rockstar sneakily implemented DRM in GTA V (selfies are stored in social club). Now this. 2K is starting to break my heart.

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holy shit that's low right thar.

Really?

I want some better sources before I believe this

I really hope they pay for this. That's so messed up.

Welcometh to next gen!

Source is my PSN is down and I can't access the main game modes, it happened when my internet connection went down as well.

From neogaf,

"It seems the game goes into a huge Authentication loop with the 2K Servers which can take several minutes. This shows the LeBron flash screen while it's happening. The game will start up OFFLINE after it has processed it's Auth Loop and timed out.

Game modes will be limited, but you CAN play offline."

Source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=731296

Yeah i noticed this. Was playing a quick match with my bro and then my wi-fi cutout for a split second and it ended the match. We laughed uncontrollably for 10 minutes straight. What were they thinking? Hadn't bought an NBA game since 2k5 and now 2k14 is already going to be my last one.