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My feelings towards BB are more or less the opposite. I love the fact that BB refuses to be and to look "contemporary", I love the fact it is text-based, I love its 2000's design, I love the fact it is slow, I love the fact that silly, non-related or just plain stupid discussions are not allowed in the forums and moderators do a great job enforcing that, I hate the fact that most discussions run on Discord and not here, I dislike the main page's design which I totally think will look dated very soon (if not already). The only thing I agree is that BB is an amazing game, I've been around since season 2 and have plans to stick around as long as I'm alive (with just a few pauses in-between cause life is crazy).

I think the Mobile App was the right direction, but needs further support. I can tell you that is the only reason I am back playing again after a long hiatus.

However, you can't organically find it in the apple store. Assume it is the same for android. If I wouldn't have gone to the browser and seen there was a new mobile app available, I would have never known about it. And I search for new sports manager games on my phone constantly.

However, when you type basketball games into the engine, you start getting football and other sports before ever seeing BuzzerBeater. And when you do find it, it doesn't have any pictures to give you a good preview. Just the logo and the name. There is no way anyone is going to search all the way through the store to find it AND click on it AND download it. It currently has only 6 reviews which I am sure hurts the ranking. Maybe we can do a community effort to leave a ranking with comment and have it tied to an in-game reward?

Getting the match viewer and forums into the mobile app would be another huge step. But I know these things take time. I think for now, getting some good pictures up on the search page along with driving up the rankings would be a good first step. And focus on the app portion of the game with the browser being the alternative. Not the other way around.

I guess the app is still a beta, that could explain why it is not properly featured in the apple and android stores.

Very good point. I think getting out of beta and appropriately featured in the stores would be a HUGE improvement. No one these days is searching for browser based manager games. So we are constantly losing users and only regaining ones that used to play in the past or find it through a search engine with very specific parameters.

According to Google Play...there have been over 1M downloads of Football Manager Mobile 2024. 500K downloads of Hattrick. Yet only 10K downloads of BuzzerBeater with a user base of less than 14K. Again according to Google, there are 3.5B soccer fans and 2.2B basketball fans worldwide. Hattrick has 200k active users, so it should stand to reason that there should be the appetite for at least 100k active users of BB for a very similar style game.

you are late by about 2-3 years at least. Declining has started, no way back :)

No, the game is not declining anymore, actually the userbase has been growing slowly and it seems the lauching of the app plays an essential part on the trend reversal.

About the beta thing, the app is not complete yet and it would be a mistake to make it available for new users without all the features available in the desktop version. I guess we will need to wait still a bit. But we waited 10 years for the app, so no problems if we have to wait a bit more for the app to be completely ready.

if team will ever succeed at least lowest of these numbers, we are saved. Keep working guys!

i think there's a high chance for BB to peak again to 40k-50k. it is far from doomed.

What do you mean by high chance? Personally I think there's an almost infinitesimally small chance of reaching 40k users. 50k happened once for a few weeks. 20k would be nice but we should really wait for 14k before we get really excited.

Just what exactly do you see happening in or out of the game to make you so confident that the user base could expand by almost 400%?

Underpromise and overdeliver, don't set expectations too high for something that can go wrong, this is business 101