Usually I get super hyped around the time next year’s game news cycle starts up. I watch nearly every creator’s videos, I check 2K’s social media, and I start playing a lot again. None of that. This year has been horrid and I have 0 drive to play the game.
I haven’t played in months. The matchmaking is complete garbage. I’m purple and gold plate on all of my builds with about a 65% win rate playing with randoms and I’m always matched with some dummy who looks like he’s never touched a basketball before. The gameplay is shit. Defense just isn’t a thing, steals are trash and the one time that steals were actually in a good place they reverted the change the next day. There is no uniqueness in builds. I remember in 25 I had inside centers, all around guards, 99 speed 99 agility guards, lockdowns, stretch bigs. Everything in 26 is just the exact same.
Shooting is too easy so you’re forced to make your build with shooting otherwise you’re straight up selling. I remember at the beginning of the year I would just let people get 2s because it was pretty much just as good as a stop.
They made a super arcadey game and took away everything fun that made it arcadey. Fading from half court was a blast and they took it away. So now the playstyle is just slow and boring.
I’ve been playing Diamond Dynasty on MLB The Show 26 lately and it beats the absolute piss out of MyTeam. You can literally earn nearly any card in the game by just playing it. You don’t need to sink hundreds or even thousands of real dollars to get the best players. They are all earnable by simply playing the game.
