Your_Imaginary_Friend wrote:Yes, that's the reasons I never play in Challenge Mode. IRL, I would have established the goals with the owner each year or not signed-on in the first place. Having the Nets owner ask for a deep playoff run is simply silly and makes for a poor game.
I could not disagree with you more - do you really think a guy like Mark Cuban is not wanting his team to make a deep run into the playoffs each season? In fact I emailed him in 2013 and asked him why don't the Mavs just tank, get a good draft pick or two and clear up cap room to build around Dirk's final productive years and he actually replied and said basically because he thinks they can win doing what they were doing which was signing ok free agents and drafting late in the first round each year. They went on to have three straight first round exists and then two missed playoff years and now have finally ended up with what looks like that star in Doncic (although too late for Dirk) so what they did turned out wasn't effective but you think that anyone in that front office thought Cuban was satisfied with the results?
There are owners out there that feel their team is much better than it really is and there are some owners out there that are completely clueless and know nothing but that owning a team seems to be a good investment and think anyone could win the championship. But that's exactly why there is challenge mode where owners have a personality and desires (even if they might not be attainable) and why there is a sandbox mode where it doesn't matter and you can do whatever you want. I think that makes for a GREAT game, not a poor one. It gives you a REALISTIC challenge - you might get an owner that is understands you need to rebuild and is happy with that for a while, you might get an owner who could care less if you win as long as you have a star player that puts butts in the seats every night, you might have an owner that wants you to win right now so who cares what your preferred strategy is for building a team - just trade it all to win today. The fact that you might get an owner with the Nets that wants you to make a deep playoff run is EXACTLY the purpose of challenge mode - its a CHALLENGE (and honestly one that is not as silly as you make it out to sound - the East is not good and the Nets are a playoff team as of right now and that's without their best player)