![]() Plus, NBA 2k21 was a next gen launch title when those were few and far between. I liked the sound of fresh, regular content and shorter term goals to work towards. Bite-sized breakdowns really of the chase for the best cards, facilitated by daily and weekly and season-long XP challenges. ![]() The new title brought a new concept, cribbed from other sports Ultimate Team modes, known as “seasons.” 6 weeks of timed content. Like every sports title, the season wound down after the NBA’s bubble return, and content for 2k20 stopped in anticipation of NBA 2k21. I acquired a LOT of digital basketball cards. But money that would previously go to dinner with friends? A trip to visit family? Dry cleaning (It was clear we weren’t going to be working in offices or around others ANYTIME soon)? Buy a couple boxes of digital basketball cards - chase the guys you remembered from when you were a teenager, chase the players you’d come to know from a new interest in the game, or put together the Celtics Big 3 you used to watch with your dad - no, not KG, Allen, and Pierce, the originals of Bird, McHale, and Parrish. I want to be clear about something: I have a good job, I have disposable income, and I don’t spend beyond my means. Throughout the NBA’s pause and eventual return, I played a lot of NBA 2k20, and I spent even more money on it than I invested time. Plus, I was I intrigued by “MyTeam,” the mode that let you mix and match a team of current and former stars - provided you could acquire their cards via in-game challenges, an auction house system, or by the luck of the loot box. I’m not the biggest basketball fan but I could recognize most players’ names and teams.or a team that had played for recently at least. Long disillusioned with the NHL series, I decided to give NBA 2k20 a shot. Animal Crossing took up plenty of that time, but I was looking for a new game. Still subject to lockdown or shelter-in-place orders, I had time on my hands. I was fortunate in that my job was not seriously affected I had some travel cancelled but the work remained. One of the early regional events was an outbreak of the disease at a nursing community near my home of Seattle, but I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say the country really took notice of the disease, its spread, and its seriousness only after Rudy Gobert of the NBA’s Utah Jazz tested positive and suddenly games were postponed and cancelled. In hindsight, this is ironic timing as March of 2020 was also the month COVID-19 exploded in the United States. In March of 2020, NBA 2k20 was added to Xbox’s Game Pass service.
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