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Is BB dying a slow death - Part Two

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From: Knecht

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Date: 1/19/2017 7:13:16 AM
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What´s the reason for your recent "no, no, no attitude"?

There are valid reasons, why an app should have been introduced long ago - even if an app was availiable, you could still use your browser on your phone.

Größter Knecht aller Zeiten aka His Excellency aka President for Life aka Field Marshal Al Hadji aka Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas aka aka Conqueror of the Buzzerbeater Empire in Europe in General and Austria in Particular
From: Pollock

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It sucks playing bb on smartphone without an app!

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I do probably 90% of my time here on BB from my smartphone and can't say I have any problems at all with it.

you prefer mobile browser but the majority would go for BB app for sure.
I agree would be a good improvement, as said before, specially for the new generation.

I play 95% of the time on my Desktop.

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I do probably 90% of my time here on BB from my smartphone and can't say I have any problems at all with it.


I probably do 90% of my BB from my phone as well. I've never had a problem.
The only time I really need to be at my computer is when I'm logging pops and drops into my roster spreadsheets in Excel.

All that said, a good app would be easier to see than going to the website on my phone (even though I've become pretty good at hitting the menu options on the first try without zooming in somehow), but it would need to have all the same functionality to be viable.

From: Melo9

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Well, I can agree with that, it won't be a game saver. But on these days, everybody is sticked to his mobile, and everything gets their own app. As a great game that BB is, I think it should get a nice app too. Not having, I think it looks old and bad to the eyes of strangers maybe.

On the other hand, I still think that this is still the major change that can be done to bring more users. Ok....it won't get us a lot of them, but what other change could get us more people to come? Adjusting salarys or changing the promotion system won't do much for sure

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I don't think people are saying that they have a big issue using a mobile browser. I think what everyone is trying to say is that creating a quality mobile app for the game has the highest upside in terms of ease of use and growing the community than doing nothing at all does.

An app is no guarantee, but it is more of a guarantee than passivity and missing out on the timeframe where people use apps and their phones more than they watch TV.

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Date: 1/20/2017 9:42:49 AM
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the fact is in 2017, nobody on internet is looking for Manager games...

but in my opinion, if we have a BB apps, lot of us gonna get this one...so BB Apps gonna appear in the ranking of mobile store (Android, Apple...)

So maybe we can get news user from that...

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I don't think people are saying that they have a big issue using a mobile browser. I think what everyone is trying to say is that creating a quality mobile app for the game has the highest upside in terms of ease of use and growing the community than doing nothing at all does.

An app is no guarantee, but it is more of a guarantee than passivity and missing out on the timeframe where people use apps and their phones more than they watch TV.


The game would definitely be more modern and polished with the right app allowing people to access it on mobile phones.
We'd still have the website to access if the app couldn't do everything.

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I think buzzer beater should focus much more on facebook and instagram advertising in order to get new players.I think you can do much better job with facebook page and as far as i know you dont even have instagram account.Today there are so many options with fb ads and hashtags on instagram to reach great number of people if bb puts their focus on it.

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but in my opinion, if we have a BB apps, lot of us gonna get this one...so BB Apps gonna appear in the ranking of mobile store (Android, Apple...)

So maybe we can get news user from that...



Thats a long guess. not to mention, not everyone has a smartphone. i know atleast 5 BB users who don't have a smart phone. they prefer the old ones which can't break :/ i personally couldn't live without a smartphone anymore (agenda, communication, ...)

That being said, since we are discussing the advantage of a BB app, just keep this in mind:

what would you prefer? BB making a BB app or the BBs working on ways to actually try to improve this game?

When i use my smartphone (one plus 3) i can open BB and access everything. sure i generally have to click twice and end up misclicking the menu i want every now and then, but the point is that it can be done. It is convenient? not really. is it slow? not really unless my internectconnection is reduced to edge instead of 4G/3G.

*) So can one play on his smartphone? yes
*)is it enjoyable experience? takes getting used to, but it's not fun to start out with, so i guess i'll angle towards a no for this question
*) is it worth to invest time and resources into potentially making an app to please part of the community, instead of investing that cash in proper adds or trying to get some visibility by sponsoring the right events? Not really.

Creating an app would be pleasing the community, which i'm not say shouldn't be considered, but in my oppinion there are more pressing issues.

And assuming we would rise in the rankings (if everyone downloads the BB app in the first week, we'll have what? 18k downloads) that doesn't get you into the top 100 worldwide for a weekly download. so it's a longshot at best

the fact is in 2017, nobody on internet is looking for Manager games...


part of you is right. what everyone wants is instant gratification. that means instant rewards or atleast seeing that you are visibly making progress. that is why some other simulation games are becoming popular. however, once people reach the top in those games, there is no variation. in BB, you can train for U21/NT's (manage them aswell) there is a B3 competition. you can try to win the league with a team full of players from your own nation, etc etc. there are many things to do and many goals to strive for. In those other games, you either get to the top very fast, or get stuck along the way, with very little alternatives. also, always going for the same title, training the same skillset, gets boring after a while. i've played plenty of other simulation games. BB is the only one which i don't get bored with after playing it for over a year (been playing it for 9 years now).

BB doesn't offer instant gratification. it requires planning (who will a train? what skills do i want on him, does he fit in my team, what team identity do i want, etc) tactical knowlege, financial management, etc. all things which aren't implemented / though out aswell as in BB.

is BB an idea game? hell no. there are many improvements that can be made. However, one needs to have the resources to do provide improvements.

So right now, the BBs have to decide what they want to focus on. in the announcement, they've put forth that they are working on attempting to solve the micronations problem. that topic alone has been a heated debate and thus requires a very carefull and delicate approach. they also could have just removed the nations with lesser users and tell the users to sign up in other countries. but i doubt that would have been well received by the community ;)

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