Most of the time, people who love NBA 2K and have powerful PCs upgrade to the newer NBA 2K titles anyway. Of course 2K Sports wants us to purchase the newer titles in the franchise, but I believe they need to realize that those who are playing NBA 2K14 instead of the newer titles do it because their PC can't handle it. Honestly, it is a bit of a difficult decision right now for 2K Sports since they gave us an extra year before they pulled NBA 2K14 from Steam and while a lot of those who do not have powerful PCs still want to play NBA 2K games, they cannot play the newer next-gen titles that are being released by 2K Sports. With no more digital copy of NBA 2K14 and physical copies no longer being produced, there doesn't seem to be any legal way of acquiring NBA 2K14 anymore. However, you can still try to purchase a physical copy from your local video game store such as Gamestop or DataBlitz.
Now that there is no more digital copy of NBA 2K14 available for legal purchase, only a few stores actually still have physical copies of NBA 2K14 on the shelf since 2K Sports doesn't produce any new physical copies of NBA 2K14 anymore. Not just that, the price of NBA 2K games are rising every year. Nowadays, only the previous NBA 2K title (NBA 2K16), the current NBA 2K title (NBA 2K17), and the next NBA 2K title (NBA 2K18), are available on Steam. However, it is quite noticeable that NBA 2K14 was not pulled sooner and was pulled from Steam at the same time as NBA 2K15. 2K Sports pulls old NBA 2K video games from Steam when new games are released, that is only natural. With that said, not having NBA 2K14 available for digital purchase at any time hurts a lot. Steam is the largest video game distribution platform for PC. Not only does that mean that NBA 2K14 will no longer be available for legal purchase digitally, it seems like NBA 2K14 will no longer be available for legal purchase at all now considering that physical copies of the game have long been discontinued and are hard to find nowadays. Visit the NBA 2K15 Steam page for more information.Unfortunately, both NBA 2K14 & NBA 2K15 were pulled from Steam without warning.
The Free to Play weekend will showcase the full NBA 2K15 experience including MyPARK (and all three affiliations), while offering fans a chance to dive deeper into NBA basketball which tipped off earlier this week. To celebrate this year’s 2014-2015 NBA season kickoff, 2K has announced that NBA 2K15 will be available "Free to Play" on Steam starting today at 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST through Monday, 11/3 at 10 AM PST/1 PM EST.