Astonishing Basketball Manager

-buys game -looks for the franchise mode that was talked about on their discord -feature is missing -asks why on discord -Dev explains that it doesn't generate as much revenue -mods threaten to ban me? (huh?) At the end of the day, if you want to play this game, just play the mobile app, the steam game has WAY less features then the mobile app, and it's free, but I would NOT recommend this game, even if it is fun, the dev seems to just worry about analytics and revenue made, the mods instantly escalate to banning someone the moment they disagree with someone

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Smartphone game turned into Steam, meaning a lot of features and links don't work... - Outdated (Rosters with the fake players resembling real ones are from about ~2021) - Unituative, bad UI - Bad Trade Finder, can't find any trades or only terrible ones but if I make the trade myself I can do better - If you look at trades you get spammed in ur inbox by your players saying "ARE U TRADING ME!?" but u can just ignore the email too which is.. interesting - Why the heck do teams have players with all F stats.. doesn't make any sense. - Lacking a lot of features, and I have an all star player who I've trained twice in shooting with A-, for 8 straight games shoot 10%... - No option to turn down the music, only turn it off... I Guess thats a mobile oversight? - Extremeeeeely slow paced. - Can't see past tweets / media Lots more I can't think of but wow. I can see why it went free :/

When I got into the game, I thought it was only gonna be a cheap copy of a 2K, turns out, it wasn´t. The game is really complete, it has a HOF, it takes record of stats, has a G League team of the franchise you coach, you can even interact with a college and become a college coach and know what every college´s traits for players are... I think the only take-back I found in 17 hours of playing are the bugs. The bugs are really weird, I once clicked to start a game, and it took me to the offseason, but I still had the same record and stuff, and so did the other teams. There are a lot of bugs, but since this is an indie game, I think it´s natural that bugs appear often. Two things that I really liked were, firstly, even though the game doesn´t have the rights to have the name of the teams and players and such (obviously), you can change the teams AND player´s names, so you know you everyone is. Secondly, the system that mid-game, so it doesn´t get boring asf, it makes play little minigames, like choosing who takes a FG, how you should defend a certain player and stuff like that. I wish the game was more than just playing season after season though, I won a ring against a team that …

This game needs and update, the further you get into the game the worse it gets. You do not gain enough training points or money to upgrade fun parts of the game. I have 50,000 fans that attend the game and over 900 millions fans world wide, but my stadium and team can barely make 50 million a year. I am stuck now having to play multiple seasons just to add one shop.

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Slop[/b][/url] This game is partially or completely made with talentless, soulless AI generated content.[/quote] "Astonishing Basketball Manager" is quite a train wreck... this is basically a mobile app P2W scam that's been dumped on Steam as a paid product, disgusting AI slop for the artwork and assets, and gameplay that makes Excel look like fun. I wonder why it was a dismal failure? As mentioned, this features really godawful, "wrong" looking AI slop instead of genuinely and sincerely created game assets. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating real game assets or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision. AI slop sticks out like a sore thumb... and it comes across as insulting. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too, and that's glaringly obvious here. On visuals, taking away the AI slop, this is just a spre…