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New faster server name should be "Super Buzzerbeater II Turbo", for a classic retro game vibe

Will this change in management help me win my league?

I never experienced the 50k days. Only been here at around the 20Ks.
Can't wait for BB to hit 50k again, i know it's possible!!

The 50k happened during that moment where every household had a PC or a laptop and smartphones weren't a thing, or were still too expensive to be massified.

When smartphones became cheap and powerful enough for people to think "why do I need this huge thing called PC occuppying a whole desk in my house if I can have everything I need into this small phone?"things started going downhill with Buzzerbeater.

It wasn't an issue with Buzzerbeater itself, the game was as fine as it is today, it's just that the experience of playing BB on smartphones wasn't good and fewer and fewer people had PCs. So the app should have been developed at least 10 years before than it was. When the app was launched, the userbase finally stopped dimishing and has been very slowly growing since.



I'm a firm believer that if BB was made easily available for smartphone users circa 2012 instead of 2022 the userbase drainage would had been way less drastic. The problem isn't the "2008 feel", it never was, the problem was having to play the game via browser on smartphones.

I'm getting repetitive here, but the "2008 feel" is what makes BB special and unique and getting rid of it and trying to "modernise" it making it have a "2024 feel" could possibly be the final dagger to the game.

It doesn't mean that the code and other "non-visible" stuff shouldn't be updated and modernised. They should, of course. But games that have a "2024 feel" are all pay-to-win, they all have those stupid and obnoxious logarithmic logic that in the beginning it is easy to develop, then it starts getting slower and then it gets insanely slow and the only way is to pay to develop, they are all non-transparent in which regards the number of other players, specially when there are divisions or tiers, you always need to move up a ladder that you don't know how many steps it has nor with how many people you are competing with, and that's exactly what should be considered a crime if Buzzerbeater starts gravitating to.

Last edited by Bernspin at 6/21/2024 7:13:30 AM

Best of luck in balancing the entrenched player base and creating a game that will bring in some new people.

To my fellow long time users out there, alas, the glory days of the MMORPG text sim are over and we have to do the best we can.

I am heartened to hear that the current thinking is that the quicker pace game would be a new server and start from scratch. It would be interesting to me to start over but with all the tutorials and everything in line instead of having to search around to figure out how many seats to build when and what infrastructure and can we talk about automatic seat pricing? The arena seating and costs are something I would love to see automated. It goes back to the age old question is this a financial sim or a basketball tactics sim.

I don't think we have the same definition of the 2008 and 2024 feel. You can still have a clean/oldschool looking 2024 feel, but with much better UI/UX that is easy to understand and navigate. Compare it to PC games being remastered, or indie games having an oldschool look but modern gameplay. In any case, it isn't the 2008 feel that makes BB a great game for me.

Hello and congratulations on your ownerships of BuzzerBeater. I’m BMX Evans I’ve been playing this game since season 6 and I hope long time mangers get something for playing and keeping their team for long period of time. I’m grateful for my franchises and for the game. I work a lot and to still have my team after all these years amazingly and surprisingly and in shock that am still playing but I really want and advocate for older users so they will know the game is thinking of them and haven’t forgot about them

Wish you the best with the purchase of BB. As you said, BB has a nice core which users love. This keeps us for years and years here at BB.

From my work a as project manager, I believe in transparency and "single source of truth". Keep us in the loop, what is planned. With an open backlog or something like that.
Make the discussion open for the BB user here in the forum, not on a chat like Discord. You can set up a poll, let it run for two weeks and everyone here can vote.

Good luck with the improvement of BB, hopefully everyone will benefit from it.

First improvement: the "Supporter" page on the menu now is highlighted