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Hi all
I am trying to join games but after few seconds, It closes because "all players abandoned Game"

IS this normal?

No, that should not happen unless players vote to abandon.

Ok. Thank you for your answer. It is weird that people create a Game and after a while they abandoned.

Ironside79 wrote: ↑28 June 2026, 18:23 Ok. Thank you for your answer. It is weird that people create a Game and after a while they abandoned.

What should happen is, it gives you the option to vote for or against abandoning.

However, some players might just be trying the game and not want to play the whole thing.

No. No option to leave game or make vote. Simply IS closed. Even without reach all players.
I tried to start game and nobody enters and closes "waiting players" window.

Ironside79 wrote: ↑29 June 2026, 01:39 No. No option to leave game or make vote. Simply IS closed. Even without reach all players.
I tried to start game and nobody enters and closes "waiting players" window.

If you are creating a table, is it turn-based or real time? It is very unlikely to find players for real time.

Yeah, I get what he means. I joined several open turn based games and then suddenly the session closed without even starting the game.

My guess is that they're trying to play with their friends but accidentally opened it to the public?

This happened to me a few times so I started my own game. I got six players signed up, but the game wouldn't start. And I had a second game that was still looking for players. I canceled the second game, thinking I'd accidentally started two, and the first one that had all six players canceled.

Pretty sure this is what keeps happening to people. They post a game and it won't start even when full of players so they end up canceling it.

I see some people are actually playing the game, so I'm going to keep trying to join and create games even though it hasn't worked for two days.

Silthe wrote: ↑12 July 2026, 22:54 This happened to me a few times so I started my own game. I got six players signed up, but the game wouldn't start. And I had a second game that was still looking for players. I canceled the second game, thinking I'd accidentally started two, and the first one that had all six players canceled.

Pretty sure this is what keeps happening to people. They post a game and it won't start even when full of players so they end up canceling it.

I see some people are actually playing the game, so I'm going to keep trying to join and create games even though it hasn't worked for two days.

I tried joining your table and saw an error reading "M6" service error. I am investigating.

I suspect the common language for the players is the cause of the games getting closed. I tried joining a few tables several days ago and I noticed shortly after that if the players don't share a common language (in the player profile), the game will be automatically be cancelled. And the table will reload, without the last player who tried to join.

In the case of Slithe, I suspect when the sixth player joined, that player didn't share a common language, and before the game could check that, it automatically tried to start but encountered the problem and had an error (probably due to all players not having a common language).

I suggest clearly labelling in the table description the language to be used in the game. That way only players who share that language would join and the table wouldn't get cancelled.