With the NBA 2K24 release date on the horizon, the MyTEAM grind is set to start again very soon. If you want to kick things off with a 90-rated card featuring the tallest active player in the NBA right now (because who wouldn’t), you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a way for you to get a free Wembanyama card in NBA 2K24. However, there’s a catch – because, of course there is. Not only do you not have very long at all to get your hands on it for NBA 2K24 but it won’t be cheap at all – and we’re not talking about spending your NBA 2K24 mt VC either.
If you want to get your hands on a 90-rated Victor Wembanyama card for your MyTeam in NBA 2K24, you’re actually going to need to pick up the 25th Anniversary Edition of the game before July 17. So, you really only have a couple of days to guarantee you’ll have this player when the game comes out. As the most expensive version of the game, you’re going to need to drop a cool $149.99 (￡129.99) for the privilege. NBA 2K24 pre-orders, for this version of the game and the rest of them, are available now.
French power forward for the San Antonio Spurs, Wembanyama towers over the competition at a remarkable 7 feet 5 inches (over 2.2 meters tall) as the tallest active player in the NBA and the 10th tallest player of all time. He was selected first overall in the 2023 NBA Draft, the youngest player to win the Pro A MVP award, and he’s a three-time Pro A Best Young Player. Yeah, he’s going to be a menace on the court in MyTEAM, isn’t he?
You can check him out in action below, which should also give you a good idea of just how tall he actually is in real life – something that should be reflected in-game.If you’re sitting there having a hard time justifying spending $150 on NBA 2K24, the 25th Anniversary Edition of the game also comes with the following pre-order bonuses:Like the sought-after 90-rated Wembanyama card, the Ruby Devin Booker and the Wembanyama MyPLAYER Jersey are both also only included in the pre-order bonuses if you pick up the game before July 17.
The NBA 2K series has always been one of the main culprits for promoting pay-to-win gameplay, and I can't see things improving when NBA 2K24 arrives.Make no mistake, the current state of gaming seems built to capitalize on the inherent lack of time that eventually plagues all gamers. There simply isn’t enough time to play every game that we want to, so financial shortcuts are created – even in some of the best games of all time, we see this come into practice. For me, the NBA 2K series might be the worst offender when it comes to pay-to-win gameplay, and I’m not at all hopeful that things will change in NBA 2K24.
In-game monetization is such a core part of the sports videogame experience that its negative effects are so easily cast aside. NBA 2K24 will be a pay-to-win game to quite an extreme extent, of that I’m sure. Despite this, I’m almost certain it will sell in excess of ten million copies, further solidifying its stance as Take-Two’s second top-selling franchise behind Grand Theft Auto. This leaves me pondering if there is any way back from this crushing sense of doom created by pay-to-win games like NBA 2K?
Necessary or predatory?
While the microtransactions within NBA 2K are not quite as close to gambling as say, the FIFA (soon to be EA FC) franchise, they still exist to help players gain a competitive edge and ultimately win out against other players who may not be able to put real-world funds into the game beyond the price of admission. As someone who was introduced to basketball through the NBA 2K series, it’s been shocking to see this sharp decline happen over the last few years.
MyCareer is a fantastic experience that has ultimately become too much of a grind for casual gamers. This leads to a very important decision being made with each installment: do I sit tight and fall behind knowing that the grind will reduce the amount of fun I have with the game early on, or do I just purchase some VC and catch up to everyone else so I can be competitive.
Quite frankly, it’s concerning to me that this has become such an accepted thought process and I’ve since decided that the overall value of VC in NBA 2K is far too great. This one currency can unlock so much within both MyCareer and MyTeam yet the ability to effectively earn it in game is poor unless you play on the hardest difficulty and for hours at a time.
There’s no way to outright predict how bad the monetization will be in Buy 2K mt, but I have enough history to work with in order to make a confident prediction that it’s going to be bad. Players who can offer their valuable time to the grind will once again get max value for their initial investment, but surely they must feel alienated by the fact that casual players can simply pay to get on their level.
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