New "Push-to-Alpha/Beta" procedure and little known games

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Miwarre
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New "Push-to-Alpha/Beta" procedure and little known games

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I have a game — Konane — currently in Alpha since a rather long time.

Being an abstract game, and a not particularly famous one, collecting approvals is rather slow and in about 3 months we got only 6. OTOH, since at least 2 months, all bugs have been fixed, all suggestions processed (i,e, either implemented or rejected). In practice, the implementation reached a stable point, as far as the interested testers can tell. For many of them the game is ready to go Beta and it looks more and more unlikely that the game will receive any more significant testing.

BUT, in the dialogue box asking "Have you received at least 10 approvals from BGA reviewers, fixed all major bugs, and made sure your game is playable on mobile?", I cannot honestly press [Ok] as, no, I only collected 6 approvals.

So, my question is:

Is there some flexibility in the conditions and, if I press [Ok], maybe a 'real person' may evaluate the situation giving a green light, or the process will be automatically blocked until I get the canonical 10 approvals?
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thoun
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They say in the doc that you can reply to the mail once you have clicked on it, to add more details to the ticket. I would explain the situation in the reply.
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The same is true for my Alpha game commander chess. The user base is mainly from Vietnam and they are all brand new users to BGA so can't become testers.

https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga ... anderchess
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ufm
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Re: New "Push-to-Alpha/Beta" procedure and little known games

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Yes, you can: https://en.doc.boardgamearena.com/Pre-release_checklist
If the game is well-received (preferably game rating ≥4.5) and there are no pending issues the game may pass as administrative discretion without 10+ approvals.
Just don't forget adding explanation via reply.
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Miwarre
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Thanks to everybody for their replies. So, ultimately, a human being will read the stuff before algorithms kick in! Good to know.
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Re: New "Push-to-Alpha/Beta" procedure and little known games

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Miwarre wrote: 09 October 2022, 09:42 Thanks to everybody for their replies. So, ultimately, a human being will read the stuff before algorithms kick in! Good to know.
Yes, we don't have (yet) an AI to decide about pushing games forward ;)
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