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Well Knecht, I'm sorry to ask you this, but do you ever read a message from someone with a BB- in front of his name?
Since really, somehow I would almost think you're running a script that automatically filters out these messages so that you are not even able to read them. I guess this message is a nice test ;).

If you manage to read this one, please try to read BB-Charles his messages in this topic and the last few news items. Yes there are many problems, yes we are aware of it, yes we try to fix these things. We feel bad we cannot offer the game-quality we'd like to offer this season. We feel bad to mess with the community, our managers, this much this season.

The underlying problem, unfortunately, isn't something we are able to fix with a simple 'push the button'. As you see in the current announcement, our developers are trying several options to help the problem, and offer the community a better game.

As much as we like to answer you and all the other managers who suffer from the problems now, tomorrow, or in a few days that all problems are fixed and solved, sometimes that just impossible.

But I can assure you, not a single developer is filthy rich (hence, they have to have full time jobs next to BB), and all developers care more for the game than you can possibly imagine.

Really, as a non developer, I feel it's just not fair at all to treat the devs with the low amount of respect as you do. I can't even count the amount of times again when I log onto skype and see for example Mark or Charles accepting a 2 hours night of sleep at work days to fix BB things in the middle of the night in either timezone. Same goes for the other devs.

Last edited by BB-Patrick at 2/8/2011 9:44:53 AM

Well Knecht, I'm sorry to ask you this, but do you ever read a message from someone with a BB- in front of his name?

The only BBs that are somewhat frequently posting on these forums seem to be you and Edju - and most of the time those post are rather lacking information than clarifying things, or even completely useless.

It is definitely not lack of respect, rather than disappointement or maybe I am spoiled by some other games that I use to play that handle things so much better than the operators of this site.

As much as we like to answer you and all the other managers [...] sometimes that just impossible.

I think that is ridiculous. Its not that I think that I dont receive enough attention, generally speaking communication is poor in this game. You have at least a handful of people that know whats going on behing the curtains and those few guys cant write a few sentences every now and then, tweet a message or post sthg. on facebook?

Instead of windbagging, if you are not satisfied with what you get for the Supporter package, don't get it again. There is no reason to continually threaten the developers with the loss of your $39.99. That buys you four lattes in Tokyo. That's a much better deal.

There are literally millions of diversions out there. If this game, with all of its idiosyncrasies and bugs, isn't making you happy, go find another one that does. If you honestly think that the developers are trying to give you a poor product or don't care about this game and its success, you are wrong.

Your not a very good salesman are you? Go else where... Is that the message you really want to give to paying customers. The sad part is..my post had a question in it that you failed to answer( What is your job again). If someone had a player in the bin at this time(so called BUG) happening and he lost money due to you BUG, where people could not bid on his player...Are you(BB) going to give him some BB money back due to it being a game flaw,bug whatever you want to call it happening?

GM's do not have to be a salesperson.
GM's volunteer their time and don't get paid.
They are simply the hands of the BBs by managing this crap that you post.
They do not sell this product and if you don't like it, get out.

I think the less-than-PC answer was because there are people who seem to almost relish the times when there are problems because they get to complain about things and your post(s) have often seemed to go along those lines. I understand that if there are issues with a game that you have paid to support (or even when you haven't paid for it) that it can be frustrating but while you ask if this or that is fair, i can also ask; is it fair to constantly be bashing the BBs who are frustrated the most whenever there are issues and who work tirelessly, often spending sleepless nights doing what they can to improve things for you?

Yes, there are certain issues with the game at the moment and they have been identified and are being worked on but it's getting to the point where any time the slightest issue occurs, some people go running around like the sky is falling and the world is going to end. I'm starting to think that some people actually enjoy any faults that occur as it gives them the chance to bitch and moan about things.
Like i said, issues with the game are known at this point and being worked on as fast as the BBs possibly can to ensure long term stability but as a player, there's not much point in constantly bashing the BBs unless it gives you some sort of weird personal satisfaction to do so.
As i see it, you can skin your knee and get on with enjoying the game as the majority of people do or you can skin your knee and go on about a simple skinned knee all day long....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHbPgDvAvf0



Last edited by DireWolf at 2/9/2011 2:21:08 AM

I'm not a salesman. I'm a teacher. That is my job. I teach English at a technical college.

I also volunteer (I suppose you could say I get paid $39.99 a year) to process new signups, investigate cheating reports, and try to help out on the forums and bbmail of BuzzerBeater , a completely free online basketball management game. I don't answer questions about bugs, or other things that I don't know about.

I didn't answer any of your questions because I have no idea what the answers are. I do know that you have been posturing very publicly about how you won't renew your supporter if such and such doesn't happen. I don't know you from Adam. We play in a fantasy basketball league together and you seem like a cool guy who knows his shit about hoop. Do you think that the developers are going to take a week off from their respective full-time jobs, fly to Boston from Europe and Asia, and have a closed-doors meeting about how to keep Yellow cake in the game? No, they aren't. Should they? No, they shouldn't.
There has never been a service or product invented that didn't have unsatisfied customers. Do you think the developers are using all of their available time and resources to improve this amazing game they created? I do. Do they have a lot of time and or resources? I doubt it. The original BBs are scientists with full-time jobs. I honestly believe they are doing the best they can and overall doing a good job.

If that's not good enough for you and your $39.99, so be it. I would always tell someone who isn't having fun doing something to give something else a try. Nobody wants you to leave and certainly the developers want you to purchase supporter. It makes 0 difference to me personally whether you do or don't. What I am tired of is you threatening to pull your $39.99 like it makes even the slightest difference to anyone but yourself.

PS- I see you scored a 23 year old $122k center with wonderful SB off the transfer list for 1.2 million today.

Last edited by somdetsfinest at 2/9/2011 3:16:44 AM

Yes, there are certain issues with the game at the moment and they have been identified and are being worked on but it's getting to the point where any time the slightest issue occurs, some people go running around like the sky is falling and the world is going to end.

Maybe you read the post in the bug forum where somebody wrote that a player listed for 2 mil was finally sold for ~600k - in the current market the difference of 1.4 million would be a fortune or a decent player...

PS- I see you scored a 23 year old $122k center with wonderful SB off the transfer list for 1.2 million today.

What wrong about that? In the offseason those players were dealt for half the price...

PS- I see you scored a 23 year old $122k center with wonderful SB off the transfer list for 1.2 million today.

And......? I was hoping that since Look Inside and Low post are the Flavors of the month...I was going to see if the shotblocking would give a boost at slowing IS's down. The main reason why I bought him is because he has strong OD and 46 minutes at a position Im training. Good eye by the way..