The downward trajectory of this game's popularity does worry me, and may also make the ABBL title victory if I do get it a bitter-sweet one, since it's coming at a time where there's less than 300 Australian users left, when there was once 500 or so during the Whitebeard dynasty.
I don't want to see this game disappear from the web, but realistically we may need to accept the possibility of it happening. If BB does suffer it's demise sometime in the future, the best case scenario for me would be for a group of players who enjoyed this game, and want a basketball manager that isn't the slow-paced Charazay (which has only half as many users online at the time of writing this, so that's a win for BB at least), to team up and work on a spiritual successor to BB.
I for one have several game format ideas, some of which I recently proposed in the suggestions forum to no avail, but the big one, which is having three league games per week so that the game can progress quicker and the season can have more games, is one that could only be implemented into a new game. There was this one football manager I used to play (quit because of it's GE being too random) that had 12-week seasons and 34 league games thanks to it having three league fixtures a week. If the servers can handle it, I think that it might help improve the user retention rate of a new game if the overall pace was quicker like that.
For now though, we need to hold out hope that Buzzerbeater will stick around for at least a few more years, as I do feel that this game is more than good enough to retain most of it's remaining users and hence not fall below 20k users for the time being. The devs have shown some willingness to continue to improve this game in recent seasons, and I look forward to seeing if they can add another feature or improve the game in some other way next off-season...
Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 9/24/2015 6:31:05 AM