Filter Games by Premium/Free?

[SteveV]

I know you can filter by Beta (or Alpha if you're a Reviewer) but I don't see any way to filter on Premium vs Free (anything else, Alpha, Beta or Publish but not Premium)

Does anyone know a way to do this?

If not, could it be added, please?

[cigma]

I don't know of any possibility either. We already have several suggestion reports on this topic:
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=30741
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=93607
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=70118
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=57316
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=46937

None of them has many votes. Let's push them together!

[ChiefPointThief]

I highly doubt bga would ever consider doing this. Although it would be very useful for non premium members bga wants you to become premium. So they aren’t just going to make it easy for you and say here’s 100s of great games you can play for free. They will keep showing ads like play great premium titles like ttr, azul, and ark nova.

I don’t see why games can’t be categorized/rated better though and shorted that way.

[thoun]

I highly doubt bga would ever consider doing this. Although it would be very useful for non premium members bga wants you to become premium. So they aren’t just going to make it easy for you and say here’s 100s of great games you can play for free. They will keep showing ads like play great premium titles like ttr, azul, and ark nova.

I don’t see why games can’t be categorized/rated better though and shorted that way.

Probably the best explanation. I guess the political answer would be "you can play premium games with a free account, so no need to filter them"

[cigma]

I highly doubt bga would ever consider doing this. Although it would be very useful for non premium members bga wants you to become premium. So they aren’t just going to make it easy for you and say here’s 100s of great games you can play for free.

Maybe, or maybe not. In fact, you can very easily check which games (or variants) are premium: https://boardgamearena.com/premium?src=globalmenu All others are free. So this is no "secret" at all. Showing this result by filtering "all games" would just be the regular place to do it.

[ChiefPointThief]

I highly doubt bga would ever consider doing this. Although it would be very useful for non premium members bga wants you to become premium. So they aren’t just going to make it easy for you and say here’s 100s of great games you can play for free.

Maybe, or maybe not. In fact, you can very easily check which games (or variants) are premium: https://boardgamearena.com/premium?src=globalmenu All others are free. So this is no "secret" at all. Showing this result by filtering "all games" would just be the regular place to do it.

Hmm. I’ve never tried to play chakra with the expansions. But glad I looked at this post to save myself future disappointment

[SteveV]

I highly doubt bga would ever consider doing this. Although it would be very useful for non premium members bga wants you to become premium. So they aren’t just going to make it easy for you and say here’s 100s of great games you can play for free. They will keep showing ads like play great premium titles like ttr, azul, and ark nova.

I don’t see why games can’t be categorized/rated better though and shorted that way.

If they SHOWED free accounts Premium games in a better to read list then the big glob of text in https://boardgamearena.com/premium it might allow them more chances to convert folks!

I pay them for Premium because this site saved my weekly gaming crew during the worst of the pandemic, even though we rarely play Premium games nor do I generally share an IP with another player (but that did come in handy when playing with family), and almost never use chat since we generally have a zoom call going

[SteveV]

I don't know of any possibility either. We already have several suggestion reports on this topic:
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=30741
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=93607
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=70118
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=57316
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=46937

None of them has many votes. Let's push them together!

I jut upvoted them all, knowing it will likely do no good...

[babycorns]

If they SHOWED free accounts Premium games in a better to read list then the big glob of text in https://boardgamearena.com/premium it might allow them more chances to convert folks!

If you just want to see the premium games you can filter by the premium tag: https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?isPremium

There is no free tag.

[SteveV]

If you just want to see the premium games you can filter by the premium tag: https://boardgamearena.com/gamelist?isPremium

There is no free tag.

Well, that actually helps a lot, thanks!