Developing my player's off-the-court persona is a similarly stiff and lifeless progression. Developer diaries prior to NBA 2K21 MT launch implied that The W players could take on characters that real-life WNBA stars pursue, whether promoting the team itself, taking on side gigs in media or fashion design, or preparing for a career as a coach. Well, all of this is handled at a process whose only player interaction is picking one of 3 choices a card off between games. Again, development is fixed, and all it delivers is unlockable cosmetics items on a fixed schedule. This means is that you become a very limited core gameplay loop very quickly, and one which is extremely reminiscent of livelihood modes I saw about the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It is hard to call The W a fantastic first shot at career-mode parity when so much of its enjoyability comes from, well, just playing the games themselves. At least that activity is distinguishable from the remainder of NBA 2K21 whilst still being fun -- but it was when I was messing about with the WNBA in MyLeague last year, also.

Likewise, it is hard to criticize Visual Concepts' layout here as though pitching female avatars to the much larger world of MyCareer would be the simplest or simplest solution. The WNBA deserves to have its own career ecosystem; it's a more supportive statement to give the WNBA its mode, rather than just dump them into NBA 2K21's aggressively competitive multiplayer globe and let them fend for themselves or, even worse, patronize them with inflated attribute evaluations.

And, as a practical matter, most avatar in a manner that's already very heavily influenced by microtransactions. 2K Sports would be pilloried if it offered up WNBA players as just another vector to get real-money sales of Virtual Money. To Visual Concepts' charge, a WNBA player does make Virtual Currency which goes toward the user's overall balance. It provides at least a little reward for trying the mode. Nonetheless, it is a stunning irony that the WNBA participant himself does not get to"invest" what she earns -- if on her own progression, or clothing, or whatever. However, its menu-driven feature set looks like something from MLB 2K10 or 2K11. There is not much to this prior to getting two"tasks" at the start of the year -- one to trade a specific player prior to the deadline and yet another (out of... the governor?) To acquire a specific number of games. In a multi-season background simulation, my failure to send didn't have much of a result. The real reasons for running a team -- developing players, installing an offensive Cheap NBA 2K21 MT Coins scheme -- are still as self-driven as whatever storyline MyWNBA occurs to deliver.