Well, I purchased NBA 2K9 for the 360 last Tuesday when it came out and played offline for a few days. Being a "convert", as I played EA's Live series for the past six years, I was amazed at the improvements and saw that I received my money's worth. However, this weekend I took it online and I saw that I was sadly mistaken.

When I went online, the first thing I noticed was the lack of (functioning) lobbies. They would appear occasionally, but most times I would just get an error telling me the lobbies were unavailable. So I said, fine, at least there's still a quick join feature, but once again, my hopes were about to be crushed. 90% of the time, the game cannot be connected to for whatever reason.

This is really a very terrible job on the part of 2K Sports. The online is terrible, and I have yet to figure out how to play my friends from around Canada and America. I have read that 2K is working around the clock to fix this, and I sincerely hope that this is true, as 99% of my gaming is done online.