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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.

(No need for insults)

Then take his insult down too.

You want to be able to put the max you would pay, but still have a chance at getting a lower price. That's stupid.

If you want to pay 50k for a player and you bid that much you shouldn't be able to get it for 1000k because you were the only one who bid on it. You are perfectly within your right to bid as much as you want on a player the way the current system is set up.

You are trying to fix a problem that doesn't exist. If you really want a player, you can bid as much as you are willing to spend RIGHT NOW if you choose to do so. Go ahead. But you should not be rewarded if the demand for that player was less than you expected and get a lower price.

Or you could just be patient and look at the TL when you have the time available and go after the players you like and are within your spending limits or aren't overpriced.

Last edited by Jahill at 8/1/2013 1:06:41 PM

You want to be able to put the max you would pay, but still have a chance at getting a lower price. That's stupid.

Not really, that is the system on HT. Bid 50k, but the manual bidding (people awake at 3am) bid just up to say 36k, so you get the player for 37k not 50k.

You are thinking of a blind auction of sorts. Like in the supermarket where there is a signed painting or something. Put in 1 bid of how much you are willing to pay and if it's the highest bid you win. If you bid $1,500 of real money, and someone else bids $1,800, they get it. If nobody else bids, you get it for $1,500 but could have bid lower and still got it (altho there is often a minimum bid for charity)

And while you're at it, firing back an insult for an insult will just escalate and get the thread closed.

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.

Which is exactly what happens when there are 2 people online at the last second bidding back and forth more than 10 minutes past the end time. Lots of clicking there as well.