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I find it ridiculous that every single thing needs an app nowadays, and this whole idea is already having too many question marks. Who's going to make it? Who's going to pay for it? What about game viewer? What about security? So the first one is settled, it's community effort. Second one, you still need a developer account if you want to put it on the market. Unless random people will take care of it, which raises another question. What if that developer loses interest in this game and disappears? Then there's game viewer, I guess making it available on mobile means 'play by play' feature for everyone. Perhaps other supporter features too, depends from the api. And yeah, the security, people managed to abuse stupid bbapi to gain advantage over others. Wonder what one will be able to do with this one.

You already have an app. It's called your browser and you get it on your phone.

Yes, that's why I find many apps to be ridiculous. You don't need app to view text, edit options, write on forum. Your browser already does it. What you need is a flash-less website with modern and responsive design. This alone will make game mobile friendly, save money, maintain everything within one codebase and don't worry about security.

A big reason for an app is that it could bring tons of players to BB.

Lets say that this app is an apple app and BB gives 2 weeks of supporter for writing a review for the app. I'm sure at least 900 users would do so, which would give the app probably at least 500 5 stars. If you go into the top free apps right now, lots of them (in the 15s and lower) have about 1000 if they haven't been out for too long. Lots of people would see the app and be very interested with it. The only problem? Users expect to sign up and play right away but unless something has changed there is the 24 hour wait I believe.

Still, if Buzzerbeater can get into the top 75, top 50, etc, it means more users and more money for the developers. Why? More supporter is bought, they can use the annoying (but successful) popup ads that would generate revenue, with the option of an in app purchase to disable ads (supporter).

What I'm saying is that if Buzzerbeater gets the app successful, it would be a huge step for the game and the community.

I agree. My main reasoning for an app would not just be making it more user-friendly, but to add exposure. A well-done BB app could bring in a ton of users.

The newcomers would still have to read 40 pages of rules, good luck with that.

No one reads the rules lol.

I have read them all lol.

I have read them all lol.

Me too, when I started. And also all the help forums ... but that really took me about 3-4 days. So yes, BB is not an "easy" game at the beginning .. but well, I guess if you have something like a guide through in the App (like the those tasks you have to do when you start the game), that would probably make it easy enough that a couple of people would stick with the game.

That's why so many people cheat.
But, I have read them.

Didn't BB already had a ton of users? I'd say the problem is not acquiring new ones, but rather maintaining the current. While app has it's pros, don't forget about cons.