BUZZERBEATER, REBORN 🌅This isn’t just an update.
This is the rebirth of BuzzerBeater: the game that kept us checking our results for years, rebuilt from the ground up so it can live for many more seasons.
On 21 September we opened the doors to
121 veterans of this game. They played it, pushed it and told us everything, and
every manager who has tried it has appreciated the direction it’s going.
The beta testers realised that the first opinion they had formed of BB’s new owners, rightly or wrongly, wasn’t true: the BB team are hard workers who really care about the game, have no intention of abandoning it, and have the right ideas and ambition not only to make it more modern, but to make it better, while listening to the game’s longest-standing, most experienced members.
— Edo, closed beta tester (translated from Italian)
Today we open it to everyone. The court is ready and the lights are on. All it’s missing is you. 🎉
Our goal for the game is to make it
accessible to everyone: new users, veterans, and whoever is in between. Our goal towards the community is to be as
open, responsive and reactive as possible. Our closed beta players have told us they noticed, and we are very proud of that. 💪
And we aim high. We want thousands upon thousands of managers online, so that the world feels alive: full leagues, a busy market, and someone to talk to on every match day. An immersive experience,
a real 2.0. 🚀
THE SOUL STAYS ❤️We know what this game means to you. Many of you have managed the same club for well over a decade, and you don’t want someone else’s idea of basketball management.
So for more than two years we did the slow, careful work of carrying BuzzerBeater over as it is.📜
We went through this game’s source code, rule by rule. Its routines for training, the economy, transfers, the draft, cups, playoffs and national teams were translated from the original engine and became the blueprint for the new one.
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When the code and the screens disagreed, we followed what you could actually do in the game, because those are the rules you played by.
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When even the code wasn’t clear, we asked the people who wrote it: the original developers.
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121 veterans played it through the closed beta and told us wherever it didn’t feel right.
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The details you love are still there: Utopia for your second team, and the
Classic layout and player portraits in Settings if you prefer the old look.
If something doesn’t feel like BuzzerBeater,
it’s a bug, and we want to hear about it.(continued below)