Oh really??
So you mean that we shouldn't protest in real life too?????
Check from which country I'm from and you'll understand that in order to protest you have to be really disappointed.
And I quote from the buzzerbeater supporter page. This will solve your dilemma for protesting or not
These costs aren't cheap, so in order to support ourselves as a real live business, we have introduced BuzzerBeater Supporter. It gives users the opportunity to help with the development of the game, and get some value out of their contribution through some extra, server-intensive features.
And the last hit is this phrase from the same page
start-up web company
No I'm not pointing at start-up because they can't possibly be a start up after 4 years but at the company.
It's a company that wants to make some money so if they want to make money, they probably have to listen to those that pay and
support them. Check what happened recently to RIOT, another startup similar to this one, which is around almost 3 years but is much more sucessfull than buzzerbeater.
PS The game is based on a freemium model. You play for free but for extra items that do not have any impact at all in your game, you have to pay. You don't pay for better items, you pay just to have some more "amenities" just like bb
They have 2 different regions, NA and Europe. After 2 years and a half, the game was becoming very popular in Europe which counted more than 2/3 of RIOT's customers. The game started to getting laggy and the customers angry of course. Within 2 months they had set up a 3rd region optimized and changed the architecture of their login and queue systems, split Europe into West and East and offered FREE points and Boosts for EVERYONE during this period.
That's a start-up company that wants to grow and wants to become something big. Buzzerbeater is just a company that is trying to hang on from basketball fans that have nowhere else to go. There is no competition and they take advantage of it.
Last edited by viper151 at 11/24/2011 6:10:33 AM