Allow Public Domain games to be played in the same household for all members?

[ViolentSilence]

Just floating an idea before trying to put it as a suggestion, but would it be worth allowing all games which are public domain (which I think are the card games played with a regular deck and a few older abstracts) to be played by people in the same household? I'm just thinking that it might be a way to attract users to the site who want to play games remotely with family members, but aren't necessarily in to the modern hobby board games. I'd say that these games wouldn't count for ELO (to prevent someone trying to rig an ELO rating for Chess or Go for example), but I suspect the audience wouldn't be bothered about that anyway.

[Chiffa of Kettari]

I think playing from the same household should be allowed for all users, period. BGA premise that "people living together can play physical games" doesn't really ring true in modern world anymore. There are a lot of people displaced by current world events, or just moving for work or study, and let me tell you - when you move between countries on a plane, heavy bulky boxes of boardgames not just are not at the top of the list, they don't make the list "things I bring with me" at all.

Unlike during covid, when virtual games was the only way to play with people you don't live with, now for many people this is the only way to play with people they live with. If playing long-distance wasn't a premium-only feature during covid, playing from the same household should not be a premium-only feature now.

[ViolentSilence]

I think playing from the same household should be allowed for all users, period. BGA premise that "people living together can play physical games" doesn't really ring true in modern world anymore. There are a lot of people displaced by current world events, or just moving for work or study, and let me tell you - when you move between countries on a plane, heavy bulky boxes of boardgames not just are not at the top of the list, they don't make the list "things I bring with me" at all.

Unlike during covid, when virtual games was the only way to play with people you don't live with, now for many people this is the only way to play with people they live with. If playing long-distance wasn't a premium-only feature during covid, playing from the same household should not be a premium-only feature now.

The reason I only suggest it for Public Domain games is because it's a restriction that the publishers have put in place when licensing a game to here - They don't want BGA to be a substitute for buying the games. As it stands, you do only need a single premium account to enable people from the same household to join a game so it's not onerous, I'm just suggesting it is enabled for that specific group of games because those are ones that will appeal to a very casual audience and it might entice more of them to try the site, especially with how many card games with a regular deck are being added at the moment.