Top real-world sports clubs have already proven that rushed, poorly discussed overhauls paired with inconsistent policy swings can wipe out years of long-term team-building. Barcelona and Manchester United are well-known examples:
once core financial or roster rules change abruptly, every long-term plan made by managers goes up in smoke.
This matters even more for a manager game built around long-term planning.
As the developers and rule-setters of this game environment, you must exercise extreme caution when rolling out any major changes. These flip-flops will only slowly erode the confidence of veteran managers who have invested years into this game.
The hasty original changes already drove away many long-term players. Now everyone has adjusted their teams and plans to adapt to the new rules, only to hear the changes are reversed. Just ask yourselves: how many more players will leave after this announcement?
To be honest, this financial overhaul barely affects me since I run a newly founded team. I just had to endure a tough stretch of getting outplayed. Yet I can hardly imagine how managers who poured massive time and effort into their teams feel right now — whether they feel they have been fooled.
Back in the week after Marin announced the reforms, you could have simply rolled back the changes when facing massive pushback from the community, instead of waiting until everyone had already made costly preparations for the new rules.
I first got into BB around 2009. Back then, my country’s league system had five divisions. When I returned last year, we could barely keep three divisions alive. I often face inactive, abandoned teams in Division III now. This is no longer the BuzzerBeater I remember.
