Buzztime is trying to attract the younger crowd.

About the only group that could care less about such banalities are trivia players. A fact that BT will never comprehend in their fruitless attempt to reach a demographic that doesn't exist.

You are correct about Buzztime players but not the general trivia playing community. Most of the local people I know who like trivia are playing on other formats such as Jeopardy! on Facebook instead of playing in bars.

I haven't done the social connection thing with Buzztime but as long as it doesn't impact the standard game in the bars, it doesn't bother me. and if this leads to 1 new regular player per site then it is a plus. We now have bars with a "0" in their average placing 172nd in Showdown. We can use any new players we can find

You are correct about Buzztime players but not the general trivia playing community. Most of the local people I know who like trivia are playing on other formats such as Jeopardy! on Facebook instead of playing in bars.

I haven't done the social connection thing with Buzztime but as long as it doesn't impact the standard game in the bars, it doesn't bother me. and if this leads to 1 new regular player per site then it is a plus. We now have bars with a "0" in their average placing 172nd in Showdown. We can use any new players we can find

This is a fair point, but I think it is actually hurting the main product. Closing down the BT forums, for example, in favor of the myfaceytwitter crap, has significantly diminshed the sense of community I (and I believe others) felt. This leads to less interest, which leads to less play, etc.

This is a fair point, but I think it is actually hurting the main product. Closing down the BT forums, for example, in favor of the myfaceytwitter crap, has significantly diminshed the sense of community I (and I believe others) felt. This leads to less interest, which leads to less play, etc.

Well, I guess the question is are they building any sense of community on Facebook and Twitter.

I wouldn't know.

Any social media types out there care to chime in ?

See- I don't think so. I am certain there are a fair number of Buzztime players who have friended (or whatever) BT on Facebook or who subscribe to their Twitter feed, but in all cases, that's just one of a bunch of friends and feeds; one more piece of noise in the already cacophonic wall of information coming into their lives. I don't see it being a good medium for trip planning, game rehashes and event planning, which were the best things about the forums (and this site, for that matter), and those are the things that I think built a sense of community. A sense of community strong enough, anyway, that you rekindled this site and we all came over. I think BT would do more to build their player base by resurrecting those forums, even in a limited way, than they are doing now with the social media. I could be wrong, I guess. It may just be time for me to tie an onion to my belt and yell at a cloud.

I'm on Facebook, but not Twitter. I never check the BT presence on Facebook. Waste of time as far as I'm concerned.

Ditto, though I go to the facebook site once or twice a week to see if there's anything newsworthy. Occasionally whoever is in charge will ask a trivia question which usually gets answered within seconds, so people ARE visiting it. While the page has almost 14,000 who "like" it, I recognize less than a dozen Scaratings members who have posted at least once, and two or three who are semi-regular participants. Typical comments/questions there are: my site isn't reporting, why isn't QB1 in sync, the avatar creator needs more options, the android app isn't working, why aren't my players plus points updating, why can't I see my players plus points immediately on my iphone, how many players plus points is a game worth, what happened to this quarter's players plus rewards cards...sometimes an answer comes within minutes, sometimes hours later, and often the answer is "let me find out and I'll get back to you on that".

So for me, it's irritating to read, just as are the blogs on the BT website - yesterday's blog is another disappointing example - for anyone who doesn't get BT email notifications and might care, here's the link: http://www.buzztime.com/blog-buzztime/9 ... ztime.html

We've got a new game brewing, new promotions being crafted and exciting new benefits for YOU, the Buzztime junkie.

We'll wait and see what happen if they try to make it up for the mistakes of the past 3 yrs or dissapoint us as usual

Wow. I just read the blog and got a bad, bad feeling about 2012.

If that was line the email I recieved that kept referencing "dancing" and "rhythm", then I agree about the bad feeling.

Thbose of us who have been through years and years of NTN/BT changes have learned that there's a direct relationship between the amount of hype and the frustration and disappointment we feel about the product, as well as a direct relationship between NTN/BT being secretive about its changes and the negative impact those changes have on the core players. So when a communication like this latest comes along that's all hype and doesn't reveal anything, I know what to expect--and it sure doesn't make me look forward to the new year.