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Is BB dying a slow death - Part Two

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From: ghunter

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I did a bit research into Kickstater about if there was a crowdfunding success story for a game similar to BB. I found a game called Bleacherzone that managed to raise 5 figures to get their website up and running. Looks like they are also planning an app with more funding.

(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/744321635/bleacherzon...)

(http://www.bleacherzone.com)

I think this is the way to go for BB. If we set a $15000 as a target and BB stump at least half from Utopia profits it will give the impression of a successful crowd sourcing project on its way to getting funded. It is also easy to advertise a Kickstarter and could create some publicity about the game. I've seen celebs/gaming personalities, with hundreds of thousands followers, tweet links to crowd sourcing projects. Also there could be articles about how to keep free to play games alive in a pay to win age.

From: Knecht

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I would recommend Marin/sb. in charge should define the framework of the app and post the description on upwork - you'll receive plenty of offers from independent developers and companies.

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: Melo9

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Yay, that's a nice step forward...I can tell you that I'm a programmer, but I just started working after graduating, so not a "pro" eheh. Still, I know some people with good knowledge and I think they might be interested in this. But Marin needs to give some details about the implementation requirements, framework and that.

But I'll start talking to some people trying to get an aproximate idea of its cost!

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As a developer myself I think it wouldn't be a great deal to have some sort of app or a mobile site in place.

Maybe an app takes too much time and money, but adapting the site to a mobile device for an easier way of navigating should not be too expensive.

Right now there are way more people using internet than a few years ago, but most people are on mobile devices. It can become anybody's routine to check their BB every day on the bus to work.

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18254 active users today, 02.02.2017

I like this game, but afraid it will not last long...

one of mistakes of game admins: change of the game rules in the middle of season...

Nuo: Regiminas
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18556 active users today, 15.12.2016

I like this game, but afraid it will not last long...

Many good things are done, but it is clear that there were much more mistakes and continuing...


Last edited by Regiminas at 2/2/2017 11:03:28 AM

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They must definitely do something, an mobile app would be a great thing.

BB would get lot of users for sure, because those days mobile phone games are the best market move.

And ofc they could do something about the marketing, advertising, would be nice to get new users.

This is where we hold them!
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Tbh. I think a complete reset and remodeling of the nations would make sense if an app is introduced.

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
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And a new world ?


No new world. Restart this one. Dump utopia and integrate those teams in real nations too. But this is just one of my "over the top"-ideas, maybe...

Setting up an app to continue in this structure might not be useful, as we see most teams that join, quit very soon because of the rough start they experience.

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: Melo9

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I'm also a developer, and I agree with you...already gave my opinion to BB-Ryan. It would be probably better to make a new responsive website, to allow people to use BB better on mobile, and also to give PC users a new and refreshed look
This would be less expensive and much easier than a mobile App also, despite not being as good I think.

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