NBA 2K25 is being delisted and shut down in December
2K will pull NBA 2K25 from sale on 30 October and switch the servers off on 31 December, taking MyCareer and MyTeam with them.
NBA 2K25 is being taken off sale on 30 October and its servers are being switched off on 31 December, ending online play for a game that arrived barely two years ago.
2K confirmed the sunset in an announcement on Steam, telling players the game will no longer be available to purchase from 30 October 2026. Anyone who already owns it will still be able to redownload it and play the offline modes.
What disappears on 1 January
From 1 January 2027, multiplayer and every other online mode stop working. MyCareer and MyTeam are gone, and it will no longer be possible to earn Virtual Currency. Play Now, MyNBA, The W and MyWNBA survive, but only while they do not need a connection to 2K's servers. Online Leagues and community sharing go with the rest.
The loss of MyCareer is the sharpest cut. It is the game's flagship single-player story mode, and it leans on Virtual Currency to upgrade a player, so the mode becomes unplayable rather than merely stripped back. That is a familiar complaint for a series that has sold more than 150 million units across its lifetime.
A two-year shelf life
NBA 2K25 launched in September 2024 and was developed by Visual Concepts and published by 2K, part of Take-Two Interactive. Delisting an annual sports title after roughly two years is now routine for the series, and the NBA and 2K extended their partnership in 2025 with a multiyear global deal that also created NBA Take-Two Media.
Owners who want to keep playing should redownload the game before the servers go dark, because a disc-less copy that is delisted from storefronts is only as safe as the library it already sits in.
Our opinion
There is a strange arithmetic in spending on a full-price sports game whose headline mode has a scheduled expiry date. 2K is entitled to retire online infrastructure it no longer wants to fund, but MyCareer is not really an online service. It is a single-player story that happens to phone home for currency, and there is no engineering reason it could not be made to work offline. The honest fix is a final patch that unhooks progression from the servers rather than a notice telling players to enjoy what is left while it lasts. Until a publisher does that, every seasonal sports purchase is a rental with a two-year lease and no small print worth reading.