Board 8 > RIV Blaseball

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https://mailchi.mp/thegameband/will-we-ever-learn-fans-vote-to-open-forbidden-book-5062474?e=8bdd86ad71

It is with a heavy heart we announce that we are not going to run the Coronation Era as planned and are making the decision to end Blaseball today. It is difficult to put into words what this means for our team and the future, but we will try.

Reading between the lines it sounds like they couldn't find a way to make it work at the scale it had grown to without charging money for it and they didn't want to do that, so they are ending it here.

What exactly was Blaseball

Claws up

Crescent-Moon posted...

What exactly was Blaseball

Interactive, text-based supernatural sports simulation/fiction

youd pick a favorite team, bet fake money on the outcomes of games, then spend the fake money at the end of the week on votes to determine major events affecting the league as a whole (including rule changes) and your favorite team/its players.

For example the big vote after the very first week was Open The Forbidden Book vs Dont Open The Forbidden Book. The book was opened. The next week, the umpires in games suddenly had a very small chance of incinerating a player on the field, which killed them and replaced them with a new player with new stats. Strange weather phenomena like solar eclipses, peanuts falling from the sky, etc became a fixture of the game as well. Fans created a lot of backstories for players and stuff like that, creativity from the fans was often incorporated into the actual game.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Interactive, text-based supernatural sports simulation/fiction

youd pick a favorite team, bet fake money on the outcomes of games, then spend the fake money at the end of the week on votes to determine major events affecting the league as a whole (including rule changes) and your favorite team/its players.

For example the big vote after the very first week was Open The Forbidden Book vs Dont Open The Forbidden Book. The book was opened. The next week, the umpires in games suddenly had a very small chance of incinerating a player on the field, which killed them and replaced them with a new player with new stats. Strange weather phenomena like solar eclipses, peanuts falling from the sky, etc became a fixture of the game as well. Fans created a lot of backstories for players and stuff like that, creativity from the fans was often incorporated into the actual game.

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