Hello, Fluffy here. This is more a message towards the developers of Bouboum, but it does discuss the current state of Bouboum and its community.

To start off, this is not just a post about me whining about the game, but rather, what the developers could do to bring back the community it once had.

Bluntly stated, I know that many people stopped playing the game with the introduction of power-ups, myself included in this bunch. Many of them were good players that were also very competitive. I do believe that any sort of competitive scene helps the community grow, as this concept has been displayed in many other games, and the introduction of power-ups lowered the amount of skill needed to succeed in the game and increased the role "luck" played in the matches, as the power-ups players picked up could give significant advantages in matches. So, this is my plea to the developers to do either one of two things: Remove power-ups entirely, or create a game mode without them that also promotes competitive play (Such as removing them from ranked mode). I was a very avid player of Bouboum prior to when this update was implemented a long time ago and it is sad to see it dying.

Screenshot of my profile. I have not played since the update.

As much as I'd love to have a vanilla mode for Bouboum, that I've been waiting for since the powers-ups came out, I doubt it's ever going to happen with the game's current state. Let's face it, if they were going to do something about the power-ups they would've done it shortly after they came out to add "Balance" to them, as they said before but never followed through with.

Unfortunately, I don't even think a competitive scene can save what it's fallen into now without some major updates and advertising. The game is.. Dead. I don't see A801 being able to revive it either which is sad because even though Bouboum was a clone of Bomberman, it was one hell of an amazing game. If they do one day decide to resurrect the game, you can bet that I'd be there as soon as I hear about it.

It's sad. Every single one of atelier's games has this pessimistic aura about them now. The cafes, the forums. The games are just dead.

Deadmaze is nearing completion apparently, though.

I do not have extremely high hopes for Deadmaze. :l

I love Bouboum. I started playing it after the powerups came out, so I have no idea what it was like before then. (I haven't played much in a while because of work stuff.)

But, yes, Bouboum is slowly turning into old rubble. :L Kind of sad. It's nice to have a break from Transformice every so often, and I don't really like Nekodancer.