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This is mostly to Charles or other employed BB staff, [edit] - but everyone is free to respond of course.

It's been over 6 months since when I joined BB as a beta tester and seems its been about 3 months or so out of beta. Any comments or thoughts on how you all feel about the state of the game, how far it's come and how well it's going compared to what you may have planned.

I've quickly grown in a BB addict. It seems like most of the positives in HT have been integrated here, while many of the issues have not, which looks to be a recipe for success. Overall, great job to all that have moved the game to where it is now!

Edited 10/3/2007 4:12:24 AM by brianjames

I know i'm not staff but for my 2 cents, i've become quite a BB addict as well. Been playing a little over 2 months now and never played HT that everyone keeps talking about but i'm loving BuzzerBeater.

Played a few online basketball games before but this has easily been the best one i've played so far. Obviously still getting some kinks worked out and features added etc but one of the major positives is a very responsive admin team and helpful community to answer questions and help understand the game (although i am glad you're working on a new forum as the current was an absolute pain in the ass to work out when first starting).

The Rules section is probably something that could be worked on at some point so you don't have to spend a month or so playing to understand all the ins and outs of the game but generally there isn't tooo much that it misses.

Overall, well done and i hope it keeps improving and the playerbase keeps growing. Gogogo BB! :P

It's nice to hear feedback about the game, especially positives :-) and especially from people that stuck with us through the beta and beyond. It shows that we are doing some things right.

I've been away for a number of months to do other things and take a bit of a breather, after 8 rather intense months in helping to get the beta up and running. I've been around the game for well over a year now, so I've seen a lot more development in things than a number of people. From the original site to what we have now, through reprogramming everything twice and all the other ups and downs a game like this goes through when it takes its first baby steps into the world.

Having the time out to come back and still see the old names in the game is really nice. It's a small community, but you've all been tenacious in following us and helping out with everything, even if we do try your patience sometimes :-) But we're working on straightening the things out that are still a bit rough at the edges. We need to keep polishing the game, especially where some corners have become a bit dusty and bugs have taken over.

Hattrick has obviously been a great help in a number of decisions in the game, as they've gone through a few design problems that we could avoid. We have the advantage that we can pick and choose what we like and disgard the rest or develop a different solution more suited to basketball. We like the number of stats this game has on offer and we like the tactical choices available. It's a bit more in depth and in your face than hattrick in that we have more games a week and more things to consider - that's a design decision that will be interesting to follow through the development.

Personally, I like the way the league system is built and I would like to develop more features and aspects to build up the rivalry between the two conferences. We have the all-star games already which is a nice step in the right direction. I have some simple ideas about what I would like to implement there, and see how that side of the game develops. Some obvious features are missing like jersey designs for your team as one example. So, we're by no means finished on the basic feature set.


It's nice to see that you're enjoying the ride and I, for one, hope that many people stick around to see what the future brings.





Edited 10/3/2007 5:26:25 AM by BB-Oxidus

It's nice to see that you're having fun. New users that enjoy the game breed more new users that enjoy it. Obviously I don't mean breeding in the biblical sense :-)

The helpful community / admin side of this game is something we try to pride ourselves in. We want new people to feel welcome wherever they go in the game and the developers and staff are happy to be approachable and reachable in game issues. It's important to us and it's important for the game.

As far as the rules go, they could probably use some work, but having said that - we like to be ambiguous so that not everything is obvious. That would be boring :-)

I think I'd be more in favour of a basic guide to basketball to help new players understand what sort of things they need to look out for and adapt that to their team and their style of play. The number of users asking "who goes where" leads me to believe that we should probably address that at some point.