Player Care: GTA VI Publisher Explains Refusal to Transfer In-Game Currency Between NBA 2K Sports Games
Court documents revealed 2K's very specific opinion on the matter.
Many know Take-Two for the Grand Theft Auto franchise, but it also has a subsidiary company, 2K, which develops various projects. For example, Borderlands, PGA Tour, and 2K also publishes the NBA 2K basketball simulators.
New installments of the NBA 2K franchise are released every year, and fans regularly ask the same question: "Can I transfer [virtual currency] VC to the new game?"
The developers' answer is "no":
Unfortunately, the answer is no: you cannot transfer VC between NBA 2K versions. This applies not only to different console versions of the same game (e.g., from PlayStation 4 to XBOX One), but also to different installments of the NBA 2K series (e.g., from NBA 2K26 to NBA 2K27).
As recently revealed in court documents: the creators of NBA 2K do not have a technical solution for currency transfer, and the company generally does not intend to develop one.
Journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File drew attention to the legal arguments of 2K representatives, who explain why VC is not transferred between games.
For example, one of the arguments is that 2K wants each game to feel like a "fresh start" and for players to have equal opportunities:
We want every new game we release to be a completely fresh start, where every user — regardless of whether they played the previous installment or are new to our series — gets absolutely equal opportunities.
In addition, 2K notes that transferring VC between games would require creating a technical solution, which would require resources (it would be necessary to distinguish between VC earned in-game and purchased with real money). And generally, 2K does not want to deal with this — they do not see any benefit for players:
We believe this is a massive undertaking that would divert developers, as well as time and resources that we would prefer to invest in other areas. Not to mention, we don't believe it would provide significant benefit to players at all, so we don't want to pursue it.
It also became known from the materials that developers can track game sessions in NBA 2K, virtual currency balance, purchases, and expenses by day.
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