• klankin@piefed.ca
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    5 hours ago

    Isn’t that just like saying there’s no other company selling Starbucks® coffee?

    Like yeah that’s the point

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      5 hours ago

      No, because there are plenty of other placrs to get coffee. The only competing franchise, NBA Live, stopped being made years ago. The irony is that NBA licensing isn’t exclusive, so feasibly another studio could come in to create competition, but it won’t happen.

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        3 hours ago

        Damn I didn’t realise that, that is shitty.

        From the outside its easy to say vote with your wallet, but I imagine a lot of foss nerds aren’t into sports, so actual sports fans get stuck between choosing shit or shittier.

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      5 hours ago

      Unlike American football and baseball, NBA does not have an exclusivity deal with 2K, last I heard. It’s just that their competitors always made worse games, and 2K was all that survived. There isn’t even an off-brand basketball game to turn to without the NBA license. If you want video game basketball, this is basically all there is.

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        3 hours ago

        Damn that is shitty.

        I imagine the genre is extra starved for projects, as a lot of the nerds that would typically recreate it aren’t into sports.