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You need to have played a rated game recently. I think it‘s the last 90 days or something. whereis that info from? Why is it nowhere to look up? I thought it appeared in the FAQ but I can't find it. Anyway, the idea is that you disappear from the leaderboards after a certain time so that a player c...

The issue is publishers wanting to make money off of every game played right from the start. All less popular games should start non premium. This allows for their to be a community for the game. Once that community grows then you make the decision on if it should be turned to premium or not. The p...

So eliminating the deadwood would be beneficial to the publishers as people who get paid. And/or BGA. Yes? No? Removing their own premium games is never directly beneficial for a publisher, as it just reduces their share of the total premium pool. Removing other publishers' premium games, I'm sure ...

You can't have friendly mode in its current form enforce penalties, given it gets used for games that are bugged in Alpha etc. So you'd have to create a separate mode, that I can't see being that popular, because you can just pay no attention to ELO already. How would it not be popular? There's lot...

P.S. A score tally animation is not a bug. It was perfect for a few days: a score tally animation for those that want that, and instantly telling you the result of the game, for those who want that. Honestly, I don't really understand why anyone would want information to be withheld for 30 seconds,...

But the opponent's Elo is not hidden; as soon as the game starts, I check the player's profile to see that opponent's Elo. Yeah of course, I mean that it's not shown in game (or even on the table page). I've always wondered what the reason was for that. I don't always check. Sometimes I feel maybe ...

Why there is no game mode like professional mode but without USELESS ELO number dump? Why there is no friendhip mode kind of mode but WITH PENALTIES?????????????????????? How may times I must ask this in here??????????? What on earth are you saying? You want "professional mode" ( ???) but...

It seems a bit unrealistic to expect every possible combination of things to be a mode. With that said, I agree that penalties should be possible in friendly mode. Just because people want to play a game with no stakes doesn't mean they are okay with other people feeling free to do whatever.

Yes the publishers make money if the game is premium but if no one is playing then they aren’t making any money at all. Some companies can be very stubborn about this. I suspect the decision makers have a sort of ego thing where they consider that what they are offering must be paid for. They’d rat...

I don't think there is an advantage per se, maybe because I mostly play games that you can't delay very much, so it's more just about how many games you can handle. Yeah, it does help on the volume of games, but I go more for the simplistic I'm playing more, rather than aiming to win. Having fun re...