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Are we in a circus or playing basketball? ;)

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Last edited by rgrimau at 1/4/2013 4:25:09 AM

Well.......The people who voted for May 11th could be correct...
as of May 2nd......40,979.....could we see the 1st 39K number since season 6????

dayum. under 40k would really suck - so the facebook connection did not help at all :-/

Well, i am pretty sure i know why there arent a lot of new blood running in. Three new teams were formed in my league yesterday, as i check the conference overview i see that the last time the were online was 15.04.2013, does that mean this is the day they registered and applied for a team? If so, then BB needs to change the policy of how long a new player has to wait till he/she can coach a team.

It is absurd, i wouldve forgotten that i even registered on this site if i would be getting a confirmation mail of getting a team "just" 3 weeks later. I would junk the mail.

There are many bot teams that can be handed over by system to new players within minutes. Of course this is all for BB to decide.

And i think it will drop below 40.000 prior to 15th of June.


But yes, only the best will stay in this game ;)

Well, i am pretty sure i know why there arent a lot of new blood running in. Three new teams were formed in my league yesterday, as i check the conference overview i see that the last time the were online was 15.04.2013, does that mean this is the day they registered and applied for a team? If so, then BB needs to change the policy of how long a new player has to wait till he/she can coach a team.

It is absurd, i wouldve forgotten that i even registered on this site if i would be getting a confirmation mail of getting a team "just" 3 weeks later. I would junk the mail.

There are many bot teams that can be handed over by system to new players within minutes. Of course this is all for BB to decide.

And i think it will drop below 40.000 prior to 15th of June.


But yes, only the best will stay in this game ;)

i heard some rumours about such cases in germany as well...i dont know exactly, but is that not one main part of the gm "work"

In my opinion, accepting this trend would be a big mistake. Okay, we might've not gone under 40,000 users today but if we don't do anything about it, the situation will only become more severe and we'll start losing players at a very high rate. The more users leave the more game will become boring which will cause experienced players to lose interest in the game and leave it, which also means that many supporters will leave and that would mean less money for the game creators. And then the moment when BBs close the game due to lack of money and interest in the game won't be far. In the forums, the decrease of interest has been obvious in the last few seasons and we've reached a point where only a few people write regularly in forums.

When the world is heading towards casual gaming on smartphones, maybe BB should go to smartphones as well. I believe that if BB would have a facebook app and an app for Android and iOS, then popularity of the game would increase again. After all, a lot of people join the game daily, it's just that understanding it and mastering all the aspects of the game is so difficult that many players leave it before even seeing how wonderful BB is. Simplified version of the game that would be accessible on smartphones would surely increase the amount of users that stay with the game. Making the game mobile would of course be a huge task and definitely take a lot of time and work but in my opinion, it's the only thing that could stop the decay of BB.

Last edited by LA-inimene at 5/7/2013 9:43:23 AM

I think what happens is that their login date gets adjusted to get rid of one time logins more quickly.