Within our pre requisite bonus packs, we got a solid team - Kobe, Shaq, Lillard, Williamson, and Ingram - however once we began buying actual packs, the quality of NBA 2K Coins players on offer sunk rapidly. You may have an adequate time playing with some offline 3v3, making minimal coins, working on your skills, but to actually get the maximum from MyTeam, you need to play online. That means you will need to constantly buy - frequently with actual cash, though grinding is potential - fresh packs and players. You can't accuse 2K of neglecting on the court drama, but all roads seem to lead back to MyTeam, and the possibility of players spending more actual money. VC can be earned free of charge, but it takes a long time to make even one package that, in this lootbox system, could wind up being VC down the drain.
Everything your player does brings you a VC, and you can either spend this on updating your participant or save it to get packs. It's poor design - and it seems deliberate - that it is possible to use MyCareer to create your MyTeam better, but to accomplish long term, you have to try and compete at the NBA with a low-level pro whose possible skill points have been spent virtual contracts to make sure that you are able to keep playing with Kevin Durant. You can not switch the difficulty down past Guru either, lest you get a lot of VC coins and match this system.
Narratively, MyCareer stays the best sports narrative experience on the market, and is packed with big name stars like Michael K. Williams, Djimon Hounsou, and Jesse Williams. The latter is way too intense occasionally, but it seems like a real creation, tells a compelling story Buy NBA 2K21 MT Coins without overdoing the melodrama, also provides some satisfying narrative beats. It's a bit too scripted in areas, but that is a minor criticism in a sports drama.