carnage4u wrote: ↑22 July 2024, 02:56
Jellby wrote: ↑17 July 2024, 11:25
carnage4u wrote: ↑17 July 2024, 03:03
Those requirements are hilarious.
Why? Testing is for testing, and they need experienced players that know the platform, how other games behave, etc. It's not "early access" for enthusiasts.
I understanding wanting people that have a some access and experience as you said it is an alpha, but those some of us may go deep in specific games but not wide. I wouldn't qualify probably as I'm too new, but it is an absurdly deep requirement.
I'll just wait and see if the game gets into beta while I still have an active sub to this website. a lot of games I enjoy are missing most expansions, which takes away value of boardgamearea so this place might not be made for me (and thats ok)
I think that the part of the requirement that is most confusing to me is not the 750 total games played, which could perhaps be reasonable, but the need to have played 50 unique titles. A person who has played 750 games over 50 different titles might have played each title 15 times. A person who has played those 750 games over only 5 titles may have played each game 150 times. I think it's very probable that there are ins and outs of how games translate to this platform that are more recognizable to a person who has played a single title 150 or 200 or 300 times as compared to someone who has played a much larger number of games but played each one fewer times.
I'd even go so far as to suspect that people who have played a smaller number of titles a larger number of times are people who are probably more likely to have pushed the implementation to its limits by attempting to use some very precise, "edge case" type moves than people who are playing these individual games less frequently. In other words, someone who has played 5 titles 200 times each might be someone who is trying moves that are legal but very unusual which an implementation may be more likely to miss as compared to someone who has played 50 titles only 20 times each.
I'd also suspect that people who have played 750 games over only 5 titles are probably the sort of people who play only those games they have a lot of dedication to and so would be likely to contribute significantly more testing to an alpha game. If someone has played 100 different games, I'd think they'd be likely to try out an alpha a handful of times but not much more since they want to play so many other games. I'd think that someone who has only played 7 titles but played a total of 1000 times and wants to try out an alpha is probably going to play that alpha 200 times before they're done.
