I’ve played probably 10 goat builds today. Haven’t lost a single one😂😂yall got finessed them shits is trash🤦🏽‍♂️I will never lose to the pay to win bums, I’m just too good.

Looks like the Goat builds aren’t as crazy as assumed but still interesting. Dwight Howard speed and agility is capped at 80 and 65. His 3pt can cap to 75.

A reward is a reward.

Just gonna try to make this quick but they cooked the game with adding goat builds. I don’t think they are good BUT last year in my team they sold animation breakers which allowed u to change a players animations. It costed $100 but I promise you they will add them to mycareer. I just wanted to put it out there that this game will be rlly rlly unrealistic and boring in a few szns. also think about the other goat builds they will add. WEMBY,KD,GIANNIS,CURRY. all have crazy good animations.And the fact this will now be in every 2k moving forward bc you’re crazy if you think they will ever do away with this now.

Locked animations and locked jumpers = L

Speed- most of these builds have terrible speed.

I didn’t get to see all the builds but the best looking was Gilbert Arenas but his dribble sigs weren’t the best

Lord have mercy I would be on a ngga ass like white on rice with this build 😂

I think the people who are “quitting the game” over goat builds are genuinely overreacting. The builds are good but they aren’t so good that just anyone could dominate with them.

Dirk for example, 99 post control/close shot/middy is fun, but how many people are good enough in the post to execute them or have teammates willing to let them do it. He’s just gonna be a spot up shooting big for most teams.

Dwight is amazing defensively and rebounding wise but he can’t pass at all and will ruin a teams transition offense because of it. Not to mention while his jumper is useable it’s not easy to use that still takes skill.

Kawhi is great but 77 speed on a lock? He can’t press at all or he’s gonna get burned.

The point being these builds are fun builds that actually play like the players irl but none of them are necessarily “broken” unless someone is already good enough at the game and willing to play to that builds specific style, other wise they are just regular builds with huge flaws.

Pros:

Can do anything

Cons:

Dies easily on screen

Can't catch up to peak

Patty mills jumpshot is too fast for that low speed lock.

Is it a fun build? Yes.

Is it good for comp? Nah.

Do we recommend it? Nah.

Just build a custom lockdown dawg.

That wingspan is nothing if you're too slow

A PG with legend pace will blow by that build.

Man y'all need to stop freaking tf out and just continue playing like you always have. We've already seen 99 shooters out here throwing up bricks, 99 dunkers getting blocked or tossing bad lays, 99 rebounders getting bullied because they don't know positioning.

Next batch of drops might change things, but none of these are really significantly better than what you can make in the builder despite what it looks like on paper. If you're decent, these builds might hurt you. If you're ass, they not gonna save you. Comp players might be able to make em shine, but the majority of these builds gonna be ass because the animations and the people behind the sticks

If you can shoot, then you don't need 90s shooting to be good. If you know positioning, Dwight ain't gonna murder you on boards. Yeah they sound op AF on paper, but locked animations and the fact most people that play ain't even good anyway ain't gonna turn into goats because they have one of these builds.

Not gonna lie, I haven’t ran into any demons on any of these GOAT builds today. Stop complaining, these builds are not that good except for AK-47.

IMO it’s an admission of failure on the part of 2k that they could not find a way to allow people to create players based on the best players while also balancing the game.

From 2ks perspective I understand why they did this because realistically speaking most players don’t need to make a new player every season to compete. A singular cap breaker along with re-earning badges isn’t enough of a draw to get folks excited at a new season of 2k.

The downside of this is that just like any ultimate team mode, now 2k has control over the meta of the game and each season can swing it with a new Goat to one-up the last. This can then swing the meta where players are forced to create Goat builds to compete especially non-playmaking-related positions (locks, backends, bigs).

The one major positive I see with Goat builds is it does invite new players into the game way easier then previous years because even April someone could buy the game, have zero cap breakers and use a Goat to potentially give them a chance to compete. I hit legend last year so when I made a new character late in the game players I would get matched with guys who had a fraction of the amount of cap breakers.

The Goat Magic already showcases that they are willing to add animations on builds that are taller than their height caps (Luka’s dribble moves are at 84 BH, so locked to 6’8 and shorter). They also added animations that are locked behind future season releases such as Cooper Flagg’s dribble style and euro as well as Giannis’s dribbles and layups. So it’s really only a matter of time before they genuinely pull a myteam move and add other height or attribute-capped animations to future GOATs.

At the end of the day it’s a video game, it’s meant for profit with fun/playability being secondary so if Goats make 2k more money they will double down on it in future seasons/games.

Full disclosure - it's a long document, linked at the bottom.

TLDR: 2K is making more money than ever, but a lot of us enjoy the game less every year. I don't think those two things have to go together.

The six big changes for MyCareer and the Park:

1. Season build swaps. Once a season, move your progress to a new build instead of starting from scratch because you picked the wrong archetype or the meta changed.
2. Assisted and Pro shooting. Two shooting options, balanced against each other, so patches stop swinging between "nobody can hit" and "everyone greens".
3. Steady progression. An OVR ceiling that rises each season. Paying gets you to this season's cap faster, but never past it. Early in the year, you won't run into someone 25 points higher than you.
4. Three currencies, one job each. Earned MyPLAYER Points, MyTeam MT and bought VC. VC currently blurs the grind and pay to win so it's hard to tell when the game is creating a challenge vs making a sales pitch.
5. Play what you want and progress. Progress comes from playing basketball, not go-karting or City quests.
6. Onboarding without overwhelming. Fewer modes, quests and ladders, and a clear "what to do next".

There's also a shorter section on MyTeam. I don't play it as much nowadays, so I've kept it high level: slower power creep, less complexity, and why a simpler mode would bring back the creator content the mode was built on (budget cards, Auction House, "where to spend your time").

Read the full document here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qn2tTq081obLEUoWc8rtfKBJK0vt3Uwe/view?usp=sharing

I'd genuinely like to hear where you disagree, especially if you think something here would cost 2K too much money to ever happen, or if I've missed a pain point you care about. I would like to get this to a point where we could get it in front of 2k community managers.

Been sitting here 15 minutes and it’s sitting at 0%. Am I tripping?

I used to buy the games specifically for MyNBA, but without the community designed arenas, I can’t create the realistic worlds that I used to spend hours crafting and enjoying. For this reason, myself and many other players have absolutely zero reason to buy these games anymore.

VC here’s some advice for you that even a caveman could understand

1. If the Community likes something, best to keep it.

2. A casino surrounded by other businesses (that draw potential customers in) has no trouble growing.
   Whereas a casino on a lone hill will never grow and only survive off its regular customers.
   If you want your stupid gambling machine to keep growing then give people more reasons to come to your game and fall into your trap. It’s not hard 🤦‍♂️

Does anybody making these games know anything about what the community wants, or even just basic economics?

What’s even the point

stop trying to fool yourselves and others into thinking you'll have to buy a goat just to enjoy the game💀

If you played 2k26 2.1 then purchased 2k27 afterwards, don't say shit about a money grab. the cries for a boycott were the loudest they've ever been last year and here you are today. youve already fed the monster buddy.

if you think these crucify game balancing, just uninstall the game. you'll definitely be claiming some other aspect of the game crucifies game balancing next month.

all this ryanmoody21 shit in the 2k community is starting to become incredibly gay. take that passion to your local political board.

"little caesars is good af when you ain't got a mf in your ear saying it nasty"

this is actually going to break the game💔100% they are gonna let u change the animations eventually💯

Only like the Ak47 and the hoodie melo one look decent anything else we could have been achieved if you knew what you was doing in the builder. These builds are for the casuals!!

Not going to sit here and go on a passionate rant on how predatory 2k is for this. I continue to see people say the builds are fair and balanced. Due to the fact it’s animation locked. The reason why this community is cooked. Is due to the sheer incompetence and ignorance of many. 2k a year or 2 ago. Revealed the season pass, to my knowledge. They stated it would be purely cosmetics that’s it. That was 2k24, over the years they’ve gradually added more. Like cap breakers, +1’s, now we have badge tokens, slots and GOAT BUILDS. What I and many are saying is. Things can get real ridiculous and predatory fast. Not telling anyone how to spend their money or how to have their fun. Just understand the next 2k games we get will be the 2k this community deserves. If your justification for GOAT BUILDS are them being animation locked. I got some bad news for you 🤣

OP builds that you can't make in the builder just to get ppl to spend $ lol... Just cause gta is dropping and yall think this will make us stay and play 2k 😂

I rly hope the animations suck so that it at least balances things a bit but if they don't. It's a wrap.

2k trying to out do 2k18 for worst 2k ever or something

This feels predatory. Anyone have any insight into this or precendent from other companies doing this?

Can’t wait for the wemby template with 7’4s running around with 80 speed and an 8 ft wing span? Think they’ll dip into more giants? muresan,mark eaton etc? 6’10 Kds n Toni’s running around at the 2? They’re literally turning career into myteam this is going to be horrible to play against if you aren’t also using a goat build.. Half the templates they’re adding don’t even have dribble moves far as i can see so the “locked” animations that supposedly nerf them slightly are going to be either normal/basic which is perfectly usable for some moves or they’re going to give them random 💩 which could make them even stupider. Genuinely what is the thought process behind introducing a concept that goes against the entire design of an MP. for 10 years they’ve limited MPS to a true 85 ovr max with the “99” being fake if u check by copying the same stats on to a custom player because having these stats would be absurd and now we can just ignore that entirely…

Yall gotta chill fr man it’s a game

I only got 4 rn, I was thinking 1 block then 2 into standing dunk then idk what else to do