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Good morning,


I like BGA. I understand that some creators accept that their game is on BGA, but not their extension (to sell them in physical).

But the creators could sell their physical game and also in dematerialized form on BGA.
=> Subscribe to the premium account + buy the dematerialized extensions of your choice. This would motivate the creators to offer more games here.

But I don't know if it's a feasible idea...

Some games(like race for the galaxy),u can only enable expansions if u r premium.

Not easy, because currently Premium is a full website access, there is no kind of "premium just for one expansion of a game", and I' not sure they're willing to do that (it would confuse some players).

Are you sure some publishers wants their game here, but not the expansion? It's not always a licence issue, you also need a developer willing to add the expansion. And often it won't bring a lot more players audience, so it's not worth the development cost. I think that's why there isn't a lot of expansions here.

thoun wrote: ↑09 August 2023, 08:29 Not easy, because currently Premium is a full website access, there is no kind of "premium just for one expansion of a game", and I' not sure they're willing to do that (it would confuse some players).

Are you sure some publishers wants their game here, but not the expansion? It's not always a licence issue, you also need a developer willing to add the expansion. And often it won't bring a lot more players audience, so it's not worth the development cost. I think that's why there isn't a lot of expansions here.

That's not completelt true. Premium can be set on an individual game basis. This is what is used for the best seller of Asmodée that grants you 1 month for the specific game you buy IRL.
But customizing access for extension/gameoption is not doable afaik, unless some API with external website is used for that

Tisaac wrote: ↑09 August 2023, 12:19 That's not completelt true. Premium can be set on an individual game basis. This is what is used for the best seller of Asmodée that grants you 1 month for the specific game you buy IRL.

That's why I said "premium just for one expansion of a game" and not "premium just for one game"

thoun wrote: ↑09 August 2023, 13:10

Tisaac wrote: ↑09 August 2023, 12:19 That's not completelt true. Premium can be set on an individual game basis. This is what is used for the best seller of Asmodée that grants you 1 month for the specific game you buy IRL.

That's why I said "premium just for one expansion of a game" and not "premium just for one game"

Oh right, read too fast or not fully awake. My Bad

thoun wrote: ↑09 August 2023, 08:29 Are you sure some publishers wants their game here, but not the expansion? It's not always a licence issue, you also need a developer willing to add the expansion. And often it won't bring a lot more players audience, so it's not worth the development cost. I think that's why there isn't a lot of expansions here.

There are games like 7 wonders or Catane that don't have an extension here. The problem seems to be money. It is normal that the creator wants to sell his game. There could be a possibility of selling it dematerialized.

I think another problem here, is that when you start paying to play a certain game/expansion, then you will expect everything to work perfectly: no technical issues, works on all your devices, very good player community, anti-cheating, good lobby…

This is too much commitment from BGA for now IMO, and many players do not understand what part depends on the game development itself (= what they paid for), and what comes from the BGA platform (hot example: moderation/red thumbing).
Many of these players will be probably never be satisfied.