Invite Non-BGA Members

[bitsofgreg]

I would love to play games with friends who have never heard of BoardGameArena before. I feel as though it would be a great marketing feature to allow you to invite people to play a game against you that have never setup a BGA account before just by entering their email.

Here is my vision:

On the various games I'd like to have a button that says "Invite By Email", once submitted an email is kicked off. When someone clicks through from the email they are presented with the necessary fields to create an account. Upon account completion, it creates a game and adds the original user, and this new member to play.

Seem like a simple feature that might have large marketing impact on adoption of BGA.

[Oso]

I would love to play games with friends who have never heard of BoardGameArena before. I feel as though it would be a great marketing feature to allow you to invite people to play a game against you that have never setup a BGA account before just by entering their email.

Here is my vision:

On the various games I'd like to have a button that says "Invite By Email", once submitted an email is kicked off. When someone clicks through from the email they are presented with the necessary fields to create an account. Upon account completion, it creates a game and adds the original user, and this new member to play.

Seem like a simple feature that might have large marketing impact on adoption of BGA.

Well, create an account doesn't take lot of time so. Also you can play lot of games with it.

[Liallan]

Actually, he did say it would take them to a page to create their account, so it actually sounds more like the lazy way to have that person join. You'd have to enter their email anyway, and you could already email anyone you like, give them a link, have them join, and then invite them to games. (People tend to like if a site just does everything for them.)

Now, supposing he'd meant for them to not join, to play as a "guest" without an account, I might see the point there. It might not "take long" to make an account, but some people don't like doing that, and some people just get sick of creating accounts all over the place. I know people like that. Can't say I blame them, cause I have tons and tons of accounts to keep track of. But it would have to be no ELO.