Board Game Arena

Starwarrior1128 wrote: ↑30 May 2025, 10:01 For example, if you look at this report

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=43499

about getting an easier way to reorganize cards when using the "Forecast' event" card, it's been ignored for 4 years, even though it's a pretty simple request and change to UI.

To be honest, it seem extremely common for BGA developers to ignore and abandon games after they have been released even if they continue to have bugs or UI issues. Which just continues my love/hate relationship with BGA.

Try to think like a developer with 30 games (Pandemic is developed by Moof who has ~30 others): you need to do something for 0.1% users of one of your games. You probably will spend 6-8 hours to switch context and fix that. Tomorrow is another game. When you fix a single bug in every game, you lose 1.5 months for free. And you need to eat and pay your bills.
"Oh, it can't be 6-8 hours, Wiz, it's 10 minutes job!". Hell no. You need to switch context in your head, remember how exactly it was done. In the example above it's a suggestion a la "I want you to make my experience better". So a dev needs first to think, how exactly it can be done, then facepalm of what they coded 4 years ago, then spend 2-3 hours implementing, then test it, then something else breaks, then spend one more hour to debug and more, and more, and more... For free.
Returning to previous games is a painful task, believe me.
And implementing drag&drop... It's 20-30 hours job

Notch226 wrote: ↑10 July 2025, 17:35

Set your expectations low when you aren't paying much or anything. People get entitled that things will work properly, but apparently it's ok to settle as long as they aren't charging too much. Volunteers shouldn't be held to a high standard. You get what you pay for, so since you're paying nothing or a dime a day shut up and take it.

I agree, and I have been saying the same thing. (I'm confused as to why your reply seems directed toward me?)