Hello,
The feeling you have using the new lobby is that it was created by someone who doesn’t often use or has never used BGA.
Now I will explain in detail, in my opinion, why the new lobby is confused, isn’t very usable and not working very well.
I’ll try to be specific:
1) the new mode for tables creation has removed and/or made difficult to find some necessary and useful information.
For example: the information of the players in the table are greatly reduced, you have to click on the player to get in the information (such as karma, spoken languages, etc. Which however remain always less than those displayed in the previous lobby).
But why I must click on every single player to find that info? This is very uncomfortable. That information are important, you need to see it immediately.
- Another information that you cannot see in with this new lobby is people sitting around the table, which has always been very useful.
- Creating tables with the new lobby is very uncomfortable also because you have to go down on the page to see all the game settings. All I want is just to play and not waste time, I do not care to see first the huge logo of the game and the large and cluttered graphics of the table (I already know what I’m playing, don’t need the sings, lol).
I want something functional even if it means simple.
The same when you join a table. You no longer see all the necessary info (like the game settings), now you have to scroll down the page to see it and then you do not have time to add to the game.
Also when you’re looking for a table to join you can’t see if there’s a karma limit, or other restrictions in that table. The information are very limited but they are essential info to know instead.
- It became very uncomfortable also to get out of a table or to eliminate player(s) from a table. Why I must click on a player and then click (again) for eliminate that player? Sometimes even in the old lobby there was no time that immediately starts the game, here you must click 2 times, there is no time that starts the game immediately and then only confusion.
Now it has become difficult also to delete or get out form a table created by yourself, only after several attempts you succeed.
2) when I click on this button
- pic.png (18.24 KiB) Viewed 932 times
it opens a table of a totally random game and not the table I am preparing or in which I am invited, it makes no sense and is very annoying.
3) the friend list no longer works well, it never actually inform you about what your friends are doing. It happens that a player seems free, and then instead that player is already playing a game, or is waiting for starting a game, or the list tell u the players is free but he/she is playing, in any case this information
NEVER checks correct.
4) every time you finish a game and return to the lobby, the page freezes and you need to make a refresh of the page or even close the page and open a new one (I asked other people and I am not the only one).
In my opinion it makes no sense adding things maybe graphically beautiful but useless or confusing and most of all that do not work well (even things that used to work first).
Maybe it’s better to penalize the graphics but have efficiency (if it is not possible have both).
I understand the importance of evolving and updating but the new features are penalizing the BGA’s functions and the gaming experience that before has always been immediate, practical and enjoyable.
I hope that these feedback can improve the site, because I like and use BGA a lot.
Thanks
