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Take any game in the world, video game or not... wait, take any activity in the world: those who put the more time into it are those who become the best. That's fair to reward those who are ready to sacrifice more than the others to become better, and it also applies here.
Once you'll get your auto-bidding system, will you turn to real life basketball and ask to forbid people to train more than one hour per week because you don't want to do more than that?

If you spend more time on BB, you have a better chance at getting better, period.
(and there's also the money it brings to the BBs anyway)

If I called Michael Jordan and said he had to meet me at the park in 3 minutes or he loses....would that make me a better basketballer or just mean the contest was SCHEDULED FOR AN INCONVENIENT TIME.

But if you called Michael Jordan and said he had to meet you, wherever he wanted, in 3 days, he would have clearly enough time to prepare for this meeting if he want to.

That is not skill, that is not being 'better'...that is being online when they are not.

That is being ready to invest more of yourself into this game than the others.



The bottom line is: autobidding would kill this game by taking most of the money the BBs earn via the adds out.

An autobid system would eliminate the necessity of logging on to log on and bid at strange hours. It in no way changes the dynamic of time investment and success. The best in BuzzerBeater have undoubtedly spent enormous amounts of time learning mechanics and minutiae of BuzzerBeater. If anything, the autobid system would increase competition by putting more focus on the game and less on bidding on players in the final 3 minutes of an auction.

The bottom line is: autobidding would kill this game by taking most of the money the BBs earn via the adds out.

I understand the ad revenue angle. An autobid system doesn't really change that the transfer list is a large part of the game. The last 3 minutes would see a large decrease, the effects on the rest of the transfer list functions are unknown. From a business perspective, ad revenue over innovation and user friendliness is short sighted. Innovation and user friendliness increases customers/users and makes it easier to be successful as a business.
Would an autobid system "kill the game"? I don't think it realistically would kill it.
Would an autobid system be a crazy game changing improvement to user friendliness that BB would retain users significantly more players? Probably not, but I think it'd be a step in the right direction.


Last edited by Phat Panda at 7/16/2013 5:20:06 PM

Having auto-bidding would not stop me from logging on at the last second and repeatedly increasing my max bid by 1000 until I saw what the auto bidder was willing to spend then just beat them by 1000. It just makes me have to click more.

Having auto-bidding would not stop me from logging on at the last second and repeatedly increasing my max bid by 1000 until I saw what the auto bidder was willing to spend then just beat them by 1000. It just makes me have to click more.

If you were going to do that, why wouldn't you just put in the max and not get online? O.o You would win by 1000 anyway.

Yeah, technically, but winning by 1000 on a 5000k player and winning by 1000k on a player that ends up going for like 300k can be two different things.