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So why do you ask for suggestions, if there are many good ones waiting to be introduced?

Start from there.

I definitely think as a community we should be all about trying to create an environment that people sign up and want to play in- which definitely means positivity!

Although its obviously a bit concerning that people are leaving the game (we all want to see it be successful) it would be better to do something about it rather than spend too much time talking about the game 'dying'.

I for one would love to do some offsite stuff maybe blogs/podcasts/videos with anyone else that would interested. Don't want to take traffic away from the site but it could be another way to engage people who might quit BB or get more people to sign up.

The rate of decline is declining faster than the actual user numbers. This would suggest that sooner or later we will stop losing users and reach a balance, probably pretty soon, especially if we find a way to genuinely start attracting people and/or brining people back.

How would that be a surprise? the problem is that the game wont grow again.

... the game wont grow again...

... until it does.

I agree with you. I think a good mark that we will never see BB drop below is 18-19k. As to if it drops to that point, my hope is no, but it could. The decline of the decline is clearly taking place and at some point it will level out and then stay around there or start growing again in my opinion. Once again, I feel like a well worked on app for BB is what will lead to more income and users to BB personally, so I expect a gradual decline to 18-19k until BB creates that app and it flips in reverse hopefully. If the user number drops below 20k is when people will really start flipping s*** though, so that may be interesting if it gets to that point. I will be optimistic though, and hope it does not drop much more from the 23kish users we have now.

The game don't need to grow, it needs to have enough users/income that BBs don't quit and find a different job.

The second team feature made enough money to get the App done - where is it?

You act as if making an app for a game of this stature is easy. I can tell you right now, that it is not. It's not as simple as, "now they have more money, they should have made an app by now".

Coming from BB-Marin himself, this is some of what he had to say about a BB app:

"We know there are lots of people which offered to help us with the development of BB for free and this would be a chance to prove that they meant business. They would get some kind of reward, surely, we're not robots

That's why we are considering outsourcing the app to the community and interested devs as a semi open source thing but the greatest obstacle, as has already been said, was code and data access. We don't want developers to be able to gain ingame advantage due to their work on the app.

The only possible solution I thought of so far would be a tight cooperation between the devs and us, where we'd need to build a platform which would give the devs the needed data for their work without giving too much away. It would be a slow and painful process but could be basically essential for the survival of the game in the long run.

I'm open to suggestions (if you don't mind me hijacking this thread) on how to do this, especially from people who have information on how this is kind of thing is usually done. I can also make this more official once we get the general idea on how to do this."

If you want to read the whole thread or some other things that Marin had to say about it you can read it here:
(http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thr...)

Last edited by E.B.W. at 12/13/2014 12:34:57 PM