5 days ago, we published a new lobby for Board Game Arena. Thanks to your feedback, more than 10 updates have been made since then, with many improvements compared to the initial version.
If you didn't read the first news, we recommend you to read it before this one.
We received A LOT of feedback on the new lobby. Board Game Arena is now a huge website, with a much larger audience than before, and it is REALLY hard to satisfy everyone. So we've not been surprised by the volume of the feedback. And of course as it was new, many of you have been at first disoriented by the new interface. As a consequence you played less on BGA during the 2 first days (-5% to -10%).
But the good news is: we made it! Thanks to your patience, your feedback and our updates, the number of players, tables, games played, waiting time is now back to normal. Yesterday, 21.290 games have been played on BGA, which is a very common number for a Monday. Some others statistics are encouraging:
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The average waiting time before starting a game has dropped by 3%.
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The % of tables that did not find enough opponents to start has dropped by 1.5 point (39,42% now, 40,96% before).
Of course, it is particularly hard to have such a big bang without disturbing you. We worked hard these latest days, to analyse your feedback, to publish updates, and to make sure that everyone of you is comfortable with the new lobby.
So if you have been disoriented by the new lobby in the past few days, here are the main things we did for you:
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At first, NO FEATURES have been removed from BGA. Everything that was possible with the old lobby is possible with the new one.
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In particular, we re-introduced the "available players for this game" and the associated "suggest table to player" feature. This feature was not initially planned for the new lobby, but a lot of you requested it and it is back now.
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For those who are playing a lot of different games here, we added a "See all available tables", which provides a list of tables for all games in a single view. This view is exactly the same than in the previous lobby, so you shouldn't be disoriented.
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If you have many games in your favourites, you can use the top-right "Display options" menu to make the game icons smaller.
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Today, we introduced a tutorial for the lobby, to explain all its features.
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(and many, many small things 🙂 )
If you are really nostalgic from the old lobby, you can do the following:
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Click on "Display options" and select "Small icons"
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Click on "See all available tables" to display tables like in the old lobby.
Once you have done this, your preferences are saved (for this browser), and the interface is really really close to how it was in the old lobby.
Once you get used to it, you can benefit from the cool new features of this lobby:
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Tables grouped by games: you see immediately if a table of game X is available, and you see all the available tables for game X at the same place.
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Join from the lobby + join multiple real-time tables.
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Your ELO rank + stats for each game is now directly visible in the lobby.
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If you didn't already, we recommend you to test the Automatic mode, which is very powerful and very easy to access now.
This is of course not the end of the story. We still have many things to fix and to upgrade to make this lobby better, and we will continue to push updates in the next days/weeks.
To conclude, I'd like to thank the whole BGA community for your patience and your feedback. Unfortunately, we had a lot of - quite - aggressive feedbacks and comments these past few days, so I'd like to give a special thank you to those of you who took the time to really test the new lobby before giving a feedback, and who explained their situation (and frustrations) in detail instead of just posting a basic "this is awful / I prefer the old one / you are stupid" comment. The feedback from these players has been really helpful to identify what needed to be done, so thanks again.
遊戲大廳更新(9月17日)
5 天前,我們為 Board Game Arena 發布了一個新的遊戲大廳 。
感謝大家的反饋,自那時起已經進行了10次以上的更新 ,與初始版本相比有許多改進。
如果您沒有閱讀第一條新聞,我們建議您先閱讀那篇 。
我們收到了很多關於新大廳的意見。
Board Game Arena現在是一個龐大的網站,擁有比以前更多的玩家,很難滿足每個人的需求。
所以我們並不會對反饋意見的數量感到驚訝。
當然,由於是新的,許多玩家最初都對新界面感到錯愕。
所以,你們在頭兩天的時間減少了在BGA上玩(-5%~-10%)。
但好消息是:我們成功了!
多虧你們的耐心和反饋以及我們的更新,玩家、牌桌、遊戲的數量以及等待時間現在都已恢復正常 。
昨天,BGA 上有 21,290 場遊戲,這個數量與以往的星期一相當 。
來說說一些讓人興奮的數據:
- 開始遊戲的平均等待時間減少了 3% 。
- 沒有足夠的玩家,而提早開始的遊戲場次下降了 1.5個百分點 (現在為 39.42%,之前為 40.96%)。
因此, 如果您還沒適應,被新大廳搞得暈頭轉向,我們為您準備了一份交戰手冊:
- 首先,BGA 沒有刪除任何舊有的功能。 之前所有的功能在新大廳仍然可以使用。
- 值得注意的是,我們重新加入了 “能加入此桌的玩家” 以及 “建議入桌” 的功能。 最初的計畫中,新大廳並不會加入這項功能,但由於廣大玩家的迴響與反饋,我們改變了計畫。
- 對於擁有大量不同遊戲的資深玩家,我們添加了一項 “查看所有能加入的遊戲桌”,在單個畫面中顯示所有能參加的遊戲。 這個介面與前一個大廳完全相同,所以你應該不會困惑。
- 如果你的收藏夾中有許多遊戲,你可以使用右上角的「顯示選項」選單來縮小遊戲圖示 。
- 今天,我們為大廳加入了一個教程 ,用來解釋它的所有功能。
- (以及很多很多小東西 )
如果你真的懷念舊大廳 ,你可以執行以下操作:
- 點擊「顯示選項」並選「小圖示」
- 點擊「查看所有開放桌」,像舊大廳一樣顯示遊戲桌。
一旦你習慣了,你可以從這個大廳的酷炫新功能中受益:
- 按遊戲分類的遊戲桌 :如果有某個遊戲的某桌可以加入,你會立即看到,並且可以同時看到所有該遊戲的開放桌。
- 從大廳加入 + 加入多個即時制桌 。
- 你現在可以直接從大廳看到每個遊戲的 ELO積分 + 統計數據 。
- 我們建議你試試自動模式(如果你還沒試過的話) ,它現在非常強大且非常容易使用。
當然,故事還沒結束。 我們還有很多事情需要修復和升級,以使這個大廳更好,我們將在接下來的幾天/幾周繼續推動更新。
最後,我要感謝整個 BGA 社區的耐心和反饋。 不幸的是,過去幾天我們收到了很多 - 非常 - 激進的反饋和評論,所以我要特別感謝那些在給出反饋之前真正花時間測試新大廳的人,以及詳細解釋了他們的情況(和沮喪),而不只是發布一個簡單如「這很糟糕 / 我比較喜歡舊大廳 / 你很愚蠢」的評論。 來自這些玩家的反饋,對於確定哪些部分需要改進非常有幫助,所以再次感謝。