Board Game Arena

Thank you!

When I try to open a table, I get the message "Access to this game is currently restricted."

What does that mean specifically? Is it a technical/development issue, or licensing related, or something else entirely? And when can we expect it to be over?

Fix the ELO changes! BGA spent time and effort to introduce changes to ELO which actively made the whole system worse, then ignored the 1000+ comments asking for change FOR YEARS NOW. Users even carried out the proper analysis BGA never did, and described the correct way to implement changes, e.g. s...

BalGAmor wrote: ↑22 June 2026, 13:22

Karottenkopf wrote: ↑21 June 2026, 00:23 Will there be a Summer of Games this year?

Wait and see is the best answer to this question...

Any news on ELO updates?

For real-time Arena games, there is an accept screen.

They said the negative Arena issue was fixed, so someone at BGA definitely knows the root cause of that bug. They just didn't explain.

So I eventually realized that by 'developer', you refer to game developers only, who are mostly volunteers indeed, while for me, the term 'developers' also includes BGA devs, who are paid staff. I think that was the root of the misunderstanding. That is indeed very weird. -1 Arena points for a win !...

Have we even confirmed that the Elo was not calculated properly? It's straightforward to check even by hand. I did it, and it's exactly as OP described. On the other hand, the bug report was not acknowledged by BGA yet. Are you speaking from any sort of experience? This: https://boardgamearena.com/...

The main flaw, on which I think we agree, is that the link to report a bug from a specific game always goes to the specific game's bug page, when for some specific categories, it should go directly to BGA support. Yes, that was essentially my point. Thank you! I suggest we agree that the rest was a...

I'll try explaining this again. Bugs that have nothing to do with the code for a specific game are not part of that game's developer's' responsibilities. According to the emphasised part here: It's not even just that. If a player gets their ELO calculated wrong (as for OP), that's a bug, right? Wel...