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Please check selected language before joining a language-based game
Posted: 11 January 2025, 14:22
by Moorksel
Hello,
I love playing "Just one" in German. It´s a game which works with words in a language that you have to select when opening a table.
It happened several times now that people just assumed it would be in English and only realized after the game started that they don´t understand the words used in the game. Then they left the game which ended it for everyone.
It really annoys me.
Please check the language before joining!
Also, I had the idea if BGA could open a pop-up window when a player wants to join a game in a a language which is not selected in his/her profile. Just something like "Did you notice that this game is in xxx?" and then they can decide.
Maybe someone is learning a new language and therefore it´s not selected in his/her profile yet. That would be fine of course.
I started a vote for this suggestion:
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=152786
Thank you for reading!
Re: Please check selected language before joining a language-based game
Posted: 11 January 2025, 21:36
by Meeplelowda
Moorksel wrote: ↑11 January 2025, 14:22
Also, I had the idea if BGA could open a pop-up window when a player wants to join a game in a a language which is not selected in his/her profile. Just something like "Did you notice that this game is in xxx?" and then they can decide.
Maybe someone is learning a new language and therefore it´s not selected in his/her profile yet. That would be fine of course.
I started a vote for this suggestion:
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=152786
Thank you for reading!
Good idea. And thanks for taking initiative to think of a solution and create and link to the suggestion. Hopefully others will follow your example.
Re: Please check selected language before joining a language-based game
Posted: 12 January 2025, 01:00
by Stu_1977_SEmelb
Meeplelowda wrote: ↑11 January 2025, 21:36
Good idea. And thanks for taking initiative to think of a solution and create and link to the suggestion. Hopefully others will follow your example.
Totally agree, very good idea (and something which really should have already been done in the first place). Upvoted.
Only five thumbs, so far... – c'mon, people, even if this doesn't concern you, please do the charitable thing and spend just a few seconds giving a couple of clicks for the sake of your fellow gamers.
Re: Please check selected language before joining a language-based game
Posted: 12 January 2025, 13:32
by JohnnyCyclops
Great idea. Now at ten thumbs up.
Re: Please check selected language before joining a language-based game
Posted: 12 January 2025, 15:28
by Gnugly
I think you'd have better luck trying to win the lottery than getting a suggestion implemented on bga.
Re: Please check selected language before joining a language-based game
Posted: 12 January 2025, 20:50
by Tisaac
Moorksel wrote: ↑11 January 2025, 14:22
Hello,
I love playing "Just one" in German. It´s a game which works with words in a language that you have to select when opening a table.
It happened several times now that people just assumed it would be in English and only realized after the game started that they don´t understand the words used in the game. Then they left the game which ended it for everyone.
It really annoys me.
Please check the language before joining!
Also, I had the idea if BGA could open a pop-up window when a player wants to join a game in a a language which is not selected in his/her profile. Just something like "Did you notice that this game is in xxx?" and then they can decide.
Maybe someone is learning a new language and therefore it´s not selected in his/her profile yet. That would be fine of course.
I started a vote for this suggestion:
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=152786
Thank you for reading!
This sounds weird to me, I am almost sure that enabling language dependency would filter the tables you can see. At least that's how it used to work at some point, otherwise players would be complaining for Concept over and over.
So it's either an issue with the lobby, or maybe a wrong configuration for that specific game.
Re: Please check selected language before joining a language-based game
Posted: 12 January 2025, 21:10
by GTSchemer
Tisaac wrote: ↑12 January 2025, 20:50
This sounds weird to me, I am almost sure that enabling language dependency would filter the tables you can see. At least that's how it used to work at some point, otherwise players would be complaining for Concept over and over.
So it's either an issue with the lobby, or maybe a wrong configuration for that specific game.
I would guess it's something with the new lobby system filtering, since there are often reports of players requesting a certain setting, then getting put in a game without that setting.
Of course some of these might because the players do not understand the new lobby filtering GUI (it is confusing to me as well).
Or, maybe the most simple explanation, players use the new lobby and do not set an explicit filter, and maybe it doesn't check for language dependency.
Re: Please check selected language before joining a language-based game
Posted: 13 January 2025, 13:12
by SionedCati
Great idea! There are 19 votes for this now
