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I agree totally. I have had friends that signed up and when the 1st game started and they didn't see any REAL basketball(Dunks,Jumpshots people actually moving around on a court) being played, they quit the very next day. One friend even compared BB to farmtown. A bit harsh but he wasn't that far off...you go on and check everything and log off just to log back on the next day and do it all again.

Semantics and Definitions aside, I think the original poster is on to something. BB has an exposure problem. With 33k users and the average userbase declining season by season, BB could certainly use some more people discovering the game. Search Engine Optimization, or whatever the correct term, why wouldn't or shouldn't the BBs work on this. This game is phenomenal. From my experience, a lot of the bugs have been fixed, things seem to be running smoothly, and they've added cool new features and functionality lately.

Why not have the BBs post on the News page that they would love some help with Search Engine Optimization, and they're looking for users help. With 33k users, many of whom clearly like analytical things, chances might be good that someone has SEO expertise in the userbase.

Semantics and Definitions aside, I think the original poster is on to something. BB has an exposure problem. With 33k users and the average userbase declining season by season, BB could certainly use some more people discovering the game. Search Engine Optimization, or whatever the correct term, why wouldn't or shouldn't the BBs work on this. This game is phenomenal. From my experience, a lot of the bugs have been fixed, things seem to be running smoothly, and they've added cool new features and functionality lately.

Why not have the BBs post on the News page that they would love some help with Search Engine Optimization, and they're looking for users help. With 33k users, many of whom clearly like analytical things, chances might be good that someone has SEO expertise in the userbase.

I agree with you, Timbo4.

I see the real problem quite differently though. I'm surprised, our friends from Nippon, haven't mentioned it, in this thread yet. All the search engine fixes in the world, won't solve it.

Its how people are now connecting to the internet. I used to be, what you would call, a PC gamer. Japan, used to have millions of them, but what we are finding out, we saw in Japan 1st, was how people are not sitting in front of their computers anymore. The world has gone Mobile!

Instead of wasting time/effort/money/other resources, on how you bing up in a search engine, BuzzerBeater, needs to get with the Generation Millennials and develop an APP. Even companies like Disney, know how to reach the changing world. Their last major game lauch, Disney Infinity, has access through 4 game systems AND a bought APP!

I'm not a coder, but if the Puffin browser, can let us watch our games live, building an APP can't be that difficult. I would think the hardest thing to do would be involve the Transfer Lists for players and staff, as those change by the second. The rest would just be navigation issues.

If you don't believe me, just take a honest look around, not at this moment, but throughout your week, and observe how people connect to the internet. Its not like it was 10 years ago, or even 5 years. The Iphone has changed everything.

Someone should make a viral video promoting BuzzerBeater.

Someone should make a viral video promoting BuzzerBeater.

Turbato twerking!

+1 for the comment.

-1 for the visualization.

I totally agree that a mobile app is also necessary to grow the user base. You are 100% correct that the future lies in those apps. In the meantime a quick little HTML rewrite wouldn't hurt anything.

Agreed that the world is going mobile. And a browser code tweak to make some of the buzzerbeater functionality compatible with mobile and tablets would certainly help, as I don't think mobile always means using apps. A lot of my mobile time (on iPhone) is just by way of using my internet browser (Safari). I think the biggest benefit of an app would be the unbelievable exposure BB would get in various app stores, thus bringing in new users, which I think is vital to the success and continued longevity of BB. However, a lot of app users are looking for a quick/mindless/short-lived game, so there'd certainly be lots of drop off of new users (which isn't great for the game). But there would absolutely be some percentage (10%???) of those new users who would stay on as dedicated users for seasons to come, and all in all I think that's a huge win for the game.