BuzzerBeater Forums

The only thing we can do now is to hope and wait, they said things are ongoing, while it's taking a while atleast we keep enjoying the same game we always loved, without any drastic changes yet.

The fact that BB is still alive is thanks to it's players, and the only way to keep it going is to keep supporting the game by playing and especially by being a supporter or having an utopia team so they can cover the server costs.

The rest, if it comes will be a good surprise for us

While it does not come, let's keep enjoying the game we've always enjoyed for these almost 20 years of existence

We have a saying back home: "It's better to be an accomplice to your silence than a slave to your words."

If the new owner had stuck to announcing the purchase of the game without raising expectations for news and deep changes, part of the community wouldn't be demanding those updates now.

Unless I am mistaken, the last update in the platform from the owners was on 12/27/2024 (...)

"Welcome to season 67! We are entering the New Year soon with the total reconstruction of BuzzerBeater still in the works. We will be releasing any further information about this grand project as we are able to."

And that came from BB-Marin, not from the new main ownership. I doubt that the game would still be playable if it was not for BB-Marin and BB-Justin, so we should all thank them. And of course there is a certain level of appreciation we should have for the new management since they haven't shut down the servers.

While the absence of updates is borderline laughable, the overall situation is pretty clear: They bought the game with grandiose plans, but they quickly realized that the existing codebase is not very similar to the Unity demo mobile games or Spotify clones that they keep publishing on the app store. If they were meaningfully closer to modernize the backend of the game, surely there would be hearing official updates. They have no interest in the current state of the game; if they did, surely they would first try to do incremental improvements, first in the UI and then in the backend. They could make all the new features opt-in with a long transition period so that everyone that believes that the current UI is god-given wouldn't be affected at first, yet there would be meaningful user-facing progress from day one. If those changes led to significant user growth, then "the total reconstruction of BuzzerBeater" from the ground-up would be a sensible next step.

It would be very interesting to learn the story behind the "leaked" new UI that was posted on youtube. Based on the latest message on Discord, it seems like it was completely abandoned. It would be mind-boggling if they think that the current user base would be interested in a UI with those characteristics.

Anyway... The phrase "[...] we will start also building the new UI around BuzzerBeater. We are evaluating what technologies are better because plain html + CSS for certain features is not enough so we are exploring other possible technologies like Rive (!) [...]" says everything one needs to know about the current situation.

So, they bought it without actually knowing what they were buying? They paid without knowing which language the game was programmed in? Is that what you're saying?

If that’s really the case (which I highly doubt) it would mean they are very unprofessional.

Well, I don't know any of the specifics beyond what has been stated publicly, but my understanding on which I based the above is that they appear to use Unity in some of their projects and buzzerbeater appears to a .NET website, so both are C# code under the hood.

Anyway... The phrase "[...] we will start also building the new UI around BuzzerBeater. We are evaluating what technologies are better because plain html + CSS for certain features is not enough so we are exploring other possible technologies like Rive (!) [...]" says everything one needs to know about the current situation.

yep, true, unfortunately. it does sound like they have no idea on what do to with a game like this..

Hello bb mates!

I couldnt read anything about this yet, but i wanted to share my impressions so far:

1. I was reminded that my supporterpackage ends in 14 days. I went to the supporter site to extend it. Maybe i was blind, but the only obvious choice, was to buy supporter for a second team (which i didnt see) for like 8.99€ with a discount 8.49, which i did accidently. Right after this, the main option shown was to extend my normal supporter für like 28 € a year, which was what i wanted to do.
No reply yet, that i asked for a refund.

2. It seems to me that injuries increased a lot. Maybe it wasnt enougu before, but this is one thing of the game that makes people loose fun. Whats the advantage of having more injuries, except one might think about a better Doc. But even if its more realistic, it is so disappointing when a main guy again gets injuried.

3. The new owner has a lot of other games. It seems, most Importantly is to earn money. I wonder if anyone in Charge, knows about basketball and has love for the game. Please make this game nicer and more fun

I hope there will be some development and if its only to make the app better, so you dont have to use the browser Version anymore (scrimmages, league stats, draft and so on)

Whats been obvious is that the placment of advertisement when you try to login in the browser Version is now directly on field where you would like to fill in your password. If you click to fast, youre redirected. Great job to the one who thought about this, but it is seriously disappointing

Btw if i dont get the refund for supporter for a second team which i dont have (8.49) i wont extend supporter for my only team (28.00)





2.

That makes sense. I will see if this really bad luck ends some time

Well you buy a Business. You pay for it. I have no idea how much. Now youll have to make profit with your investment.

I wonder, and we deserve an answer, whether you will let bb die very slowly and get ad expenses as long as it takes, or if you still employ some good guy who managed bb already till the selling. Can we expect improvements even if its slower?