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Does anyone know what the financials are for Buzzerbeater the business?

How much does supporter bring in?
How much is received in advertising?
What are the expenses?
How much is owing?

Notice that no one has any thoughts on my previous post (above)

Would be really interesting to know the ins and outs of the financials of the game

You can post it over and over, if nobody here know the numbers, you will not have an answer on that subject.

True but we could all have fun speculating

One might be able to guess the supporter income. I know roughly how many are Supporters in here and how many active managers there are. We could assign that % of supporter to total managers in he world and get a figure and then work out the supporter income. If one was interested and could be bothered doing the maths. But then their is advertising and costs would be unknown.

well if there are 40k users, if 25% had supporter (which is generous) that would mean 10k*40 dollars. Which means 400k per year. To be honest that's not so much. Of course advertising is some kind of income, but you still have to pay the developers, and administering the servers takes it's toll. I think it's safe to say the game isn't making that much money. But still, if they could do some minor changes(which ones, that's the mystery) they could vastly improve financial aspects.

yea, i know, i was very generous with the numbers. Odds are that this is probably half. I was having loads of trouble getting Supporter with those other options, and I eventually quit doing them. I don't think there's a lot of ppl doing that.

But just any other two cents, here are my two cents:

Game doesn't really need major changing, most of the people on this forum love it and want to see it go further and develop. I mean, LI is too good and sometimes bench players shoot free throws but these are just small tweaks. However, I do think that at some point new users just stopped coming to the game, and also first league users got bored and just quit. This should be priority for developers and managers. Get new people on board and help them learn easier. BB-Mail is crappy(sorry but it's true), forums are hard to reach somehow and don't present much interest to new guys. Training is kind of weird, and it's not really straightforward, i mean, the basic concept of how players get training is clear to me and I agree with it, but to newcomers it takes a while and this maybe disarming for them. This is the moment where BB really needs a great idea in order not to fall apart.

Knecht owned the game, but he got bored and sold the game to a bunch of Bostonians who now owns 99% of it. One percent is owned by the NRA, no idea why.

Im not going to buy into that, prefer to own a share of the game myself

Well just because we pay "x" amount for supporter doesnt mean that individuals from other countries pay the equivalent.

I remember reading somewhere that Australians pay more for Microsoft products than what Americans do, because we are perceived to be able to afford to pay more

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 12/15/2013 6:33:04 PM