If anything the game itself has never been better. There's been some great improvements made just in the last 6-7 seasons alone. In case you needed or wanted reminding...
Before Game Day Prep, everyone spammed Look Inside offence. Other tactics were used, but only in certain situations, like if your opponents were weak outside for example. GDP makes managers vary their offence from game to game, and whilst predictable results aren't a bad thing per se (I've quit more than one other online manager because weaker teams could beat stronger ones too frequently), a certain level of ability for weaker teams to pull off upsets through their strategic decisions can make a league season or cup tournament more interesting.
I also feel that the ability to train players in anything regardless of where they play on the court was another great improvement recently added to the game. Managers who want to train their big-men in outside skills but don't want to sacrifice competitiveness can now do so as long as they're willing to put up with slower training speeds...
Every season another aspect of the game is being tweaked, be it for game balance/improvement reasons, or convenience reasons. The reason why the user count is going down when the game quality is going up is because of a lack of advertising. The rise of AdBlock as a commonly used add-on and a general sense of apathy on the part of the BB's to promote the game seems to have it very difficult for our target audience to actually find this game and sign up to it, and with old users eventually getting bored and leaving to play something else, there hasn't been enough new players coming through the ranks to replace them. Hence why Division IV is no longer a thing in Australia, amongst other things.
Personally, I don't think this game has gotten stale at all. In fact, my interest in BB has actually risen once more this season, following a brief period where I was still interested but not to the extent that I was back in the days where I would compose big write ups on legendary Australian players and moments... I may do another one of those some day if ever I'm motivated enough to do one.
Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 9/8/2015 7:09:28 AM