Board Game Arena

I'm sure someone must have made this suggestion before, but It seems silly to me that you can look at an info page for each game, but nowhere on the page is there a "play this game" button.

I can read a detailed description, watch a video about it etc. but if I want to play it I have to head to the 'Play Now'/'lobby' page and start a game from within there, possibly having to then search for the game I was just looking at.

Hopefully this seems a sensible suggestion?

Thats a big one for me too right now! Me and my friend search through the games to see if we want to play, but then we have to go back and go through all the steps to play

Ditto on this.

Can you thumbs up an idea?

Starting a game is really difficult and counter-intuitive, I can only assume it's deliberate under the recent surge in users to reduce the number games to a level that the server can manage by making sure only the very most determined of players can start a game?

Can't agree more!!!

Someone should create a suggestion report on the bug-page about this, then everyone agreeing can rate it up.

I agree. I have added a suggestion on the bug tracking system here:
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=20544

Voting it up there will make it more visible to the site admins.

A 1 click Create and OPEN is long needed.

+1

It has in general just become a lot more counter-intuitive to create games, especially ones with friends. I've been playing with mostly the same sets of friends and am continually having to tell them how not to make the same mistakes over and over, cause you're making it far too easy to do things the hard way. (And it makes it difficult for me to remember the best way when you insist on changing everything every three months. Sometimes you need to just leave well enough alone.)