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I understand what you are saying, and agree that that it is not as realistic as it is presented to be, but it would be very silly to use the lines that you have come up with. Why? Because marketing purposes. I understand that you are also not pleased with the micro-nation situation, but the best cure to the micro-nation problem is getting more users to sign up. How do you get people to sign up? Market the game well and make it appealing.

You say that this is lying to new users. I will respectfully disagree and say that BB is just showcasing their game the best way that they feel they can. Even if you do view this as lying, it is an effective way to make people want to join the game, and even if it is not exactly what they wanted/expected, many users find the game interesting and want to continue to play. If you brand your game as:

"Abstract basketball reports. Most advanced browser basketball MMO available when it was released several years ago. Watch text-based game play-by-play live."

It is not going to make people interested in signing up. Marketing is key for a game like BB, and your revisions severely hurt trying to recruit new members. I appreciate how spirited you are about the game and the negative aspects of the game, but I don't think, your idea is the right way to go about better informing new users about what BB is and why they should join and be part of this community.

Sounds much better than your last one! That one I don't see hurting new members wanting to join that much if at all, and if it seems more honest to you, then I can agree that a change might be warranted. At the same time, I don't think that many people feel like they are being lied to/scammed. Regardless, it is an interesting suggestion and one that you are very passionate about, so I'll be following this thread.

You need to calm down a little bit. I am one of the most vocal users in the history of the game when it comes to stupid/inefficient/random/lame/whatever changes/features/you name it, but now I am telling you your critizism is too much - let it be for a while.

Fact is there is no better online BB-Manager game out there, probably never will be, because the market is just does not exist for it. Still there are many many issues that need to be adressed and fixed, some stupid marketing ploy is really at the bottom on this long list.

Could be fixed in minutes, but as long there is nobody trustworthy enough to do it, we need to live with it.

Fact is there is no better online BB-Manager game out there, probably never will be, because the market is just does not exist for it.

That's a very bold statement, especially as BB does nothing to attract new users. Moreover this game is just not good, it's not realistic, it has flaws in every area and there's little development going in. So there's that, and yet, it has basically no competition as a browser basketball manager game.

Last edited by RSX at 3/10/2015 2:45:18 PM

I agree with you. It all happens. I've been thinking to start something new in BB Brazil to attract new users and restart our old process and organized as well. Unfortunately this is all an idea for now and we might not get so much success doing a ''personal job''.

I must say that I called some friends since I get back to BB some weeks ago. I saw some new rules last week and made a little bit harder to manage.

For new users It'd be even more harder. They don't about training, about the necessary skills for each positions and to get in the forums, actually, would not help them so much.

The game's still good in my vision, we just need more users.