It is a very established custom in recent years that, when a sports game is about to expire to give the baton to the following year’s edition, the developer usually puts it for free both in its own service –if it has one– and in that of others, as bait so that those users who have not tried it yet do so and get on the franchise wheel. AND NBA 2K23 has not been an exception.
And in those we are, with the FIFA 23 and NBA 2K23 on duty, ending its useful life every time at the end of the summer we will have a new version, improved, with more advanced graphics, movements, game mechanics and, of course, teams, shining stars, fields and stadiums and the atmosphere of professional leagues updated to what the fans demand. Although in the case of the basketball game, 2K has encountered a problem that it did not expect.
The dumbest boycott in the world
We live in the world of social networks and that means that there is always someone who is going to complain about something, no matter how absurd it may seem to most. And that’s just what’s happening with NBA 2K23, which has arrived to become a free game for all PlayStation Plus users. On paper, nothing should look bad to us, or maybe you think not?
Indeed, the hare has jumped on a Reddit thread where fans have rallied around a petition to boycott NBA 2K23 and they have begun to ask all other users to do the same as them, which is nothing more than not downloading it from the PlayStation Store as a sign of protest for something they consider… an offense? The truth is that we would not know exactly how to classify this movement… antigigas?
The fact is that everything is caused because someone must have thought that downloading 143GB is outrageousan injustice, an absurdity, an Whatever you occur and then determined that it was better to boycott NBA 2K23 accusing it of taking up too much disk space. So much was the indignation that little by little the initiator of this revolution has been accumulating followers who are imitating his position.
Is 143 gigs a lot?
Surely each one of us will perceive these 143GB as much or little depending on many factors, but there is no doubt that NBA 2K23 It is not exactly one of the heaviest. There are much more beasts in that aspect, like red dead redemption 2 that exceeds 150, or Assassin’s Creed Valhalla who already flirts with the 180 or Star Wars Jedi Survivor which quietly exceeds that amount from the day of launch.
Comments like “143 GB?! fuck it[ …] I remember when NBA 2K21 it weighed 80GB and FIFA 19 only 40 or something like that. This has gotten out of hand” they do not leave the person who makes them in a good place and gives an idea of how opinions move on social networks, where we all have our little speaker. The problem is when someone pays more attention than they should.
come down NBA 2K23 and play it! To hell with the hard drive!
