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Why?

There are enough avenues to make $5,000 in the game via player sales, home games, etc. Whats the point of this $5000?

And why 1 week free supporter?? you got your trial when you started the game. If you want supporter, pay for it with real money!

That Supporter week would be such a tease, that for one week your players would have uniform numbers... I could see how this would be a nice little promotion of Supporter features. New managers can't fully appreciate them, but anyone who's been around for a few seasons would understand the difference between Supporter and non-Supporter better, and for that one week, it could be an opportunity to attract a few more Supporters.

I don't think giving teams money is worth even discussing, though. Get a job! ;-)

What you are saying about sampling supporter again after the initial trial period might be true but the proposal was for a week every season. Given we have 4 seasons a year thats like almost a month of free supporters that BBs give away. That is a bit excessive. Then in which case should all existing supporters be also given 1 month of extended supporter since everyone gets a month free every year anyway?

If you want to sample it again then maybe do a one off week long trial of supporter to be made available for everybody but definately not as frequent as the proposal.

Okay, so a week here or there. Maybe every other All-Star week so it's more like 2 weeks per year. Whatever is seen as a enough of a taste to entice Supporters. It's in everybody's interest to increase this number since more cash flow hopefully translates into more staff for developing the game and making it better.

Well it makes sense if you could cumulate them. So after like 10 seasons there would be possible to play a private league. That is what makes sense to try in a first place

I like the idea of Monkeybiz. Everyone can chose to use his free week of Supporter once in a career. It's not like the free one at the beginning when we don't know anything of BB. There, it will be a free choice by the player and he can clearly see difference with or without Supporter.

i think that would be fine, especially because i could imagine that new user get confused when their supporterships end and their favorites/jersey number etc. disappears

Well it makes sense if you could cumulate them. So after like 10 seasons there would be possible to play a private league. That is what makes sense to try in a first place

That would eliminate 10% of BB's Supporter revenue.

Last edited by RiseandFire at 12/2/2010 6:27:06 PM

I think not, if you offer to paying supporters other kind of bonus. Even would be fine if supporters wouldnt get no extra weeks, but Im sure this could be worked out.

I just doesnt see the point in having supporter for a week, that is just ridiculous. I would not see even 1 pop to follow in training history.

I think this is a worthwile idea. There are so many great benefits to being a supporter like bookmarks, buddys, scoreboard, quotes, roster numbers, training history etc that it may well attract a lot of new supporters. They don't get the best feature which is the private league.

A week a season is way too much and would be a major disruption to revenue, but a one off "Christmas Present" might be something the BBs could consider, but they also have to weigh up losing one weeks supporter from everyone who already has it against how many new supporters they would get. I have no idea at all how many supporters there are but if there are 60K players there may be 3k of supporters. It costs about $1 a week to be a supporter so it would cost $3,000 for this promotion. That means they would need a lot of people to switch from non-supporter to supporter to make it even worthwile.

I guess one possibility would be to not give the current supporters a free week, only give that to non-supporters. Instead give current supporters some other non-advantageous cosmetic only benefit like the ability to rename a player or their next draft pick, to be invited into a special supporter worldwide pl style cup or perhaps being able to give an "accessory" (headband, goggles, facemask, tattoo, mohawk, pink hair etc) to one of their players.

Indeed, however does make sense to me to give such a thing only for a long-term supporters (it sounds symetric if you compare that to long-term non-supporters). If you are very stable customer for like 5+ season, you might get any thing you mentioned. I would take @buzzerbeater email.