It’s a basketball game, apparently.
2K Sports’ flagship basketball sim franchise is renowned for its flagrant use of microtransactions and gambling-esque mechanics, but NBA 2K20 could be the straw that broke the camel’s back. While the latest entry is looking to up the ante in all areas, from character creation all the way through to Hollywood cameos, a recent trailer for MyTeam has been pulled from the series’ official channel after attracting over 16,000 dislikes.
The reason? Well, frankly it looks like a casino game. Depicted in the video are slot machines, Wheel of Fortune-style games of chance, and plenty of fist-pumping as rare cards are pulled from loot box-ish packs. It’s a tone-deaf trailer that deserves the level of criticism it’s attracted — especially when you consider the wider context of the microtransaction conversation that’s been going on elsewhere in the industry of late.
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