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Long time player here I'm not exactly sure how long but probably at 10 years ish. Best of luck to me owners and team!

I hope it doesn't change to pay to win format.

I hope some of the changes can be more ways for teams to make money. There is not an organization in the world that would open their arena to public and let them watch a free sporting event scrimmage or not. Maybe more control of stuff like merchandise sales and clearer benefits from infrastructure upgrades would be nice instead of it sounding theoretical like you may or may not get something.

To those anxious about UI/UX changes, they don't necessarily mean more colorfol or flashy interfaces with screaming images. What I expect and deem necessary is that the interface and flow through the site/app becomes more intuitive and users (especially new ones) can quickly find the information they need to play the game in the place where they need it (not after some search on the forums or having to wait for an answer to their question. I'm glad a new user took the time to share this view here.

Also, if the new owners do want to completely change the game with pay-to-win and a whole different pace/dynamic, why would they spend a lot of money buying this game and modernizing it instead of just building a new app from scratch? They have nothing to gain form changing this game's core and alienating the userbase, that would be throwing away what they just bought. Have a little faith

Moreover, all suggestions are voted on in Discord. So I guess any changes will be decided there and not on this website.

This issue could be mitigated if before every decision made on Discord an announcement is posted here saying «hey, if you wanna vote about this or that go to Discord (link) and vote»

A few thoughts on this...

First of all a huge thank you to the old guard. And a big good luck to the new guard.

Secondly, we have to be realistic here - BB-Marco & Co invested money into the acquisition, not because of the kindness of their hearts, but because they see potential to monetise it and eventually make a profit on it, otherwise they wouldn't have done it. And that's okay, this is how the world works, there is no problem with the fundamental concept.

And this is where the whole thing can go to many directions - depending on what is their vision on this - I'm sure they have a few ideas in mind on how they could make a load of money on this, and I'm also fairly certain they are not going to share them anytime soon, regardless if we would like them or not. But we can also be realistic here, if they can acquire 1000 new members for the price of losing 100 old ones, they wouldn't think much about it.

So to be seen what's going to happen - let's say that I am trying to be cautiously optimistic here.

Still if they plan on changing the core of BB drastically and also the UX/UI, why would they pay so much for the app? It's still a too big investment if you want to keep just that.

Also voting on Discord does not equal decision making, it's just gathering feedback. It's very premature to assume they'll just implemnt a suggestion from Discord without considering other input.

But feel free to keep to your pessimistic thoughts, I personally think it detracts from the "charm" of the game to be that way though.