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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..

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...

If he was listed for 2mil, he couldn't have sold for any less than 2mil. If you mean his TPE was around 2mil, well the TPE is a rough guide and certainly doesn't mean that you will get that price, everybody knows that.

Again, please don't over exaggerate the issue. You're running around like the game exploded and killed your family and friends when the most extreme example you are trying to hit the developers with is that someone sold for less than the TPE.....and it wasn't even your player or your team.

I feel like i'm starting to add fuel to the trolling fire by responding any more to this stuff so i'll just say 1 last time; Yes, there are issues but they are being worked on as best they can and trying to call out the BBs and criticize their work or threaten them with pulling away your supporter money is not going to help fix things one little bit.

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?

I would be really worried if a BB starts to answer you everytime you post, because that would mean they are not caring on what's important(fix bugs etc.).

You are complaining a lot, aren't you? Maybe you need some kind of special atention, but if you have been here for a while you should know that since there are BB-Pattrick or BB-Edju the game improved at least on comunication...


The server is not always busy(well maybe some minutes sometimes) and it works better in compare to others online games. If these days a manager wants to sell a player its better to put it on the price you wanna sell him to prevent you lose money with it, its not that hard.

And nothing. Nice pickup. I was interested in him as well, but lacked the funds. I have a similar center who I believe to be a really good player, much better than his salary suggests, and I think it is due to his high ID and SB.

You are complaining a lot, aren't you? Maybe you need some kind of special atention, but if you have been here for a while you should know that since there are BB-Pattrick or BB-Edju the game improved at least on comunication...

1. I am definitely complaining too much, but if at the same time everybody is trying to dress up facts although nothing has changed I think we have a tie...

2. So you want to tell me that we have two BBs that are responsible for communication and those two guys cant maintain a facebook page or post like weekly updates on the site or tweet once in a while... Nice offseason contest too - I guess it takes some time to watch a handful of 2 minute video clips...

ack... I'm with Knech on the FB page comment unfortunately... (unfortunately because its my pet gripe... not because I'm agreeing with you Knech)

Since iam not a GM but a simple soldier iam not gonna tell you how to do tour job.

I know the GM's do everything they can to improve this game but sometimes they fail, and failing in my line off work is not an option. This means your mission is a failure and even worse men you fought with are dead.
Therefor we have a saying in our unit, if it aint broke, dont fix it.

Please try to explain to me why these bugs are always happening during gametimes, or why on earth the GM tried to be funny with some lame trashtalks. I for one am not amused by it, its not funny seeing it ten times in a quarter and even on the wrong moments it pops up.

On the other side i can imagine that its an improvement but cant you shadowrun it and get the bugs out before your launching it on the game?

Anyways, GM's do great work and they diserve some respect for that, and taking cheapshot at them will not solve any problems.

So in army style, i will lay back, grap myself a nice Jhonny Walker blue label scotch and enjoy they BB Cheerleader who run around my pool.....