Thank you everyone for being so curious about this service! Your help is absolutely needed to make this service running, and because of that we think that it is important to be as transparent as possible about how BGA is working. Here's are the answer of the Q&A: I want game X on BGA / I want expansion X on BGA / When will game X be available on BGA? Despite our warning, many of you asked us this question that we cannot answer for many reasons. The complete answer is already in this section of the FAQ. However, we'd like to add 2 important things: _ The best way to get your prefered board game on BGA is not to ask BGA, but to ask the original publisher of this board game. If you really want to help us, just contact game publishers to tell them that you like BGA and that you'd really like to have their games here. You may also send them a link to this page that we created to introduce BGA to game publishers. _ We cannot only work on adding new games. Currently, the number of games on BGA is growing faster than the audience of this service. This is why our priority is more about working on having a larger audience than working on new games. Since the beginning of the year, 80% of our work concerned the service itself, 20% concerned new games. Why is feature X designed like this? / I want you to change this / I want feature X / I would like to suggest you feature X This question&answer is intended to answer your questions about BGA, not really for suggestions. But as many (many!) of you asked for evolutions or suggested some evolutions, so we'd like to tell you this: _ We are reading ALL your suggestions. There are so many suggestions that we cannot answer to all of them - sorry about that - but we read them all. _ If your suggestion is in fact a bug, you should post it in this section instead. _ The vast majority of your suggestions make sense. BUT, implenting all of them would obviouly make this service totaly unusable. In order to make this service usable by anyone, we need to make choices. Sometimes we are making good choices, sometimes we are making bad choices, like any other digital services, and this work is really, really difficult. The only thing we know is that the audience of BGA is growing over the years, so we know that we are taking more good decisions than bad ones. To conclude, if you find a suggestion really great and wonder why we did not implemented it yet, please keep in mind all of this. To give you an idea, our 3 priorities for the end of 2017 are: _ 1: make BGA more simple and accessible for beginners, so we can have a larger audience. _ 2: build a better metagame (competition/trophy/ranking system), so the players who play a lot here can always get more challenges. _ 3: introduce more Premium games/features as we do not have enough paying members now. Why is there no mobile/tablet app for BGA? 2 main reasons for that: _ currently we only have ONE software for BGA. When we are introducing a new game or a new feature, or fixing a bug, we have to modify ONE software. If one day in the future BGA has an app, each BGA update will need additional work, which means more development time, which means less games, less features, less bugfixes. _ almost all the most popular BGA board games already have an app. We are doubtful that those game publishers would be happy to have a BGA app beside their own app. So it means that a BGA app would not be able to propose all BGA games. Not so great, isn't it? It does not mean that there is no solution to have a BGA app. But this is not as easy as it sounds, and to be clear this is not our top priority. In the meantime, we worked a lot on making BGA accessible with a mobile/tablet browser, and it's working quite well since practically 1/3 of our audience is now coming from mobiles/tablets. There are more and more board game apps in the app stores. May this cause difficulties to have these games on BGA? Most of the time, this is not a problem. It can happen that a game publisher refuses to have a game on BGA because they already have a (not free) app. However, since game publishers may also earn money with BGA (with Premium games), this is not really an issue. Is there a risk for some games to disappear from BGA? Of course! BGA has a strong reputation among board game publishers because we make sure that each publisher is happy to have its games on BGA. If a game publisher is unhappy with BGA, we prefer to remove its games. That being said: we only removed 1 game (Dominion) in the last few years. Why don't you provide voice chat? We do. You can activate "Audio/Video" option for each game. We are also thinking on making this option more easy to use. Why is BGA unreliable? In fact, statistically, the BGA service is more reliable than most services on the web (with equivalent size/audience). However, each incident on BGA is VERY annoying because it may ruin the realtime games in progress. For example, when your bank website / plane booking website / newspaper website has an issue, you just get back 10 minutes later and most of the time you don't care. When BGA has an issue, 10 minutes later your game has gone down the drain, and that's a real issue. This is why we invest a very important part of our time in making this service reliable and stable. We are willing to be more transparent on this subject, and we will introduce a new feature soon so you can check by yourself the status of this service. How international is your audience? Very. You can see this with the various flags from our players 🙂 The first country in term of audience is USA, but almost 50% of audience is from Europe, 25% from America, 23% from Asia, and 2% from the rest of the world (and the rest of the world is really welcome, please increase this number!). Why aren't we allowed to play for money? Because it is not allowed by the laws of many countries. What is the current status of the BGA Sandbox project? Well... We found out that many of you do not really care about Sandbox games. The sandbox games we introduced on BGA (ex: Tablut, and the former "sandbox go") are practically not played. You love rules enforcement, which is great because all "standard" BGA games have rules enforcement. Currently, we are using the Sandbox tool to build some new and simple games faster and to do some experiments, but most of the time we are writing scripts on top of these games to add rules enforcement so they are just like any other BGA games (see "Hack Trick" or "Tiki" for example). This is a useful tool, we are developing it when needed, but we still don't know if or when it will be made available to everyone. What are your plans to make us play the games that are not played today? We love each of our games, and we'd really like to make them all played more. We are working in 3 different directions: _ we want to provide you more tools to discover which game you'd like to try, and provide you a tutorial so you can learn this game. _ we allow you to wait for several games in the lobby. This is already possible using the "Simple mode". This way, you can wait for a "rarely played" game while still waiting for a popular one. _ we want to build a better "metagame" (competitions/trophies/rakings) to encourage you to play all games, including the "rarely played". Are you going to include more ways for us to earn gift points? Probably not. In fact, there is currently a lot of different "points" in BGA (ELO, score, prestige, gift, karma...) and it certainly does not help to make the "BGA metagame" understandable. So we are thinking about redesigning this in another way. Will you remove the wooden background? We don't know yet. This background looks "amateur", we know that. But BGA was an amateur website during a long period of time, and even since we have gone "professional" we are trying to keep in touch with te original "spirit" of the service 😉 Why can I not play some board games turn-based? This can be a publisher+BGA decision. For example, Celestia would be a nightmare in turn based, with a lot of interruptions, and anyway the game makes no sense to be played this way. This may also be a technical problem. For example, Time Masters would have to be completely rewritten to be available for turn based. Are you willing to organize real world play sessions? Short answer: probably not. Longer answer: this is a completely distinct new feature and it would need a lot of effort (some services are 100% focused on this). Can you add accessibility features? Since BGA is a 100% web based service, we are compatible with all accessibility features provided by devices/browsers (zoom, speech support, ...). Concerning the games themselves, we have to respect the game art. So if the board game art provides some accessibility (ex: for color blind people), we do. Please fix bug XXX To help us to identify the most important bugs and to fix them, please use the following page to vote for this bug and/or add more information so we can reproduce it: https://boardgamearena.com/#!bugs I'm a developer and I want to create a module for a game Please go to BGA Studio 🙂 We recently did a complete update of the Studio to improve it and make it more efficient: you should have a look at it! Why didn't you answer my question? Probably because it's already in the FAQ, because it was out of this Q&A scope (ex: personal related question / suggestion / bug / very game specific) or because it was really close of one of the questions above 🙂
Q&A大全！
感谢所有人对BGA的关心！
服务运行需要你的帮助，正因为如此，我们认为让BGA的工作模式透明化是很重要的。
这里是对问题的回答：
我想让游戏 X 在BGA上线 / 我想让扩展X在BGA上线/游戏 X何时在 BGA上线？
很多人忽视我们的警告询问这个问题，但由于种种原因，我们无法回答。
完整的答案已在常见问题中。
然而，我们想补充 2个 重点：
_ 让你喜欢的游戏在BGA上线的最好方式不是找BGA，而是找该游戏的原始发布者。
如果你真的想要帮助我们，请接触游戏发行商，告诉他们你喜欢 BGA，你真的想让他们的游戏出现于此。
你也可以把链接到此页发送给他们，这是我们向游戏发行商介绍BGA的页面。
_ 我们不能只为添加新游戏而工作。
目前， BGA上游戏数量的增长速度超过玩家增长速度。
这就是我们以发展玩家而不是开发新游戏为工作重心的原因。
今年到目前为止，我们工作的80%关注于服务本身，20%关注于新游戏。
功能 X 为什么这样设计呢？
我想让你改变这个 / 我想要功能 X/我想向你建议功能 X
此问答旨在解答关于 BGA的问题，而非真正用于建议。
但许多（许多！） 人要求或建议一些演变，所以我们想告诉你：
_ 我们正在读你们 所有 的建议。
建议如此之多以至于我们无法全部回答-抱歉-但我们全都读过。
_ 如果你想上报错误，你应该转到本节。
_ 你们的建议绝大多数是有意义的。
但是，全盘接受会使服务完全无法使用。
为了使这项服务可由所有人使用，我们需要做出选择。
正如其他数字化服务，我们的选择时好时坏，而这个工作真的，真的很难。
我们只知道BGA 用户多年来不断增长，所以我们的正确决定多于错误的。
最后，如果你发现一个建议真的很棒，又奇怪于我们为什么没能实现它，请记住以上一切。
给你交个底，2017年年底我们 3 个优先事项是：
_ 1： 使 BGA 对初学者更简单和平易近人，因此我们可以有更多的用户。
_ 2： 建立一个更好的官网 （竞技，奖杯，排位系统），因此老玩家总是可以获得更多的挑战。
_ 3： 引入更多保费游戏/功能，因为我们现在没有足够的付费会员。
为什么 BGA 没有手机/平板电脑应用程序？
2 个主要原因：
_ 目前我们只有一个BGA软件。
当我们引入一个新的游戏或功能，或修复 bug 时，我们必须修改这个软件。
如果有一天 BGA 开发了应用程序，那么每个更新都将需要额外的工作，这意味着更多的开发时间，也就意味着更少的游戏，较少的功能，更少的错误修正。
_ 几乎所有最受欢迎的 BGA 桌游已经有一个应用程序。
我们怀疑这些游戏开发商是否欢迎BGA的插足。
所以这意味着 BGA 应用程序不能够提供所有 BGA 游戏。
不太好，不是吗？
这并不代表不能有BGA应用程序。
但这听来容易做来难，而且要弄清楚这不是我们的首要任务。
同时，我们投入相当多的精力于手机/平板电脑浏览器，这项工作成效很好，因为几乎 1/3 的用户现在来自手机/平板电脑。
在app商店有越来越多的桌游app。
这会对游戏上线产生阻碍吗？
大多数情况下，这不成问题。
有一种情况是，游戏出版商拒绝在BGA发行游戏，因为他们已有（非免费）的应用程序。
然而，由于游戏出版商也能从BGA挣钱 （付费游戏），这不是真的问题。
有一些游戏面临从 BGA 消失的风险吗？
答案是肯定的！
BGA 在桌游出版商中有良好的信誉，因为我们要确保每个出版商对BGA 上有它的游戏表示欢迎。
如果游戏发行商对 BGA 不满意，我们更愿意删除它的游戏。
话虽这么说： 我们在过去几年中只下架了1个 游戏 （领土）。
为什么不提供语音聊天？
有的。
您可以激活每个游戏的"音频/视频"功能。
我们也正在考虑使此功能更易于使用。
为什么 BGA 不可靠？
事实上，从统计意义上，BGA 比大多数在线服务 （相同大小/用户） 更可靠。
然而，BGA上的每个意外都是相当恼人的，因为它会毁掉正在进行中的实时游戏。
例如，当您的银行网站 / 飞机订票网站 / 报纸网站出了岔子，你只需 10 分钟后再回来，大多数情况下你并不在意这10分钟。
当 BGA 出毛病时，10 分钟后你的游戏已经没救了，这才是一个真正的问题。
这就是我们投入大量时间于使服务可靠和稳定的原因。
我们愿意在这个问题上更加透明化，并且我们很快就将介绍一项新功能，你可以用来自己检查此服务的状态。
你的国际化程度如何？
相当高。
这从形形色色的玩家国旗中可见一斑。
，但50%左右的玩家来自欧洲，25%来自美洲，23%来自亚洲，2%来自世界其他地区（我们相当欢迎更多其他地区的玩家！）
为什么不允许我们赌钱？
因为它为多国法律所不允许。
BGA 沙盒项目的当前状态是什么？
嗯......
我们发现，很多人并不在意沙盒游戏。
我们介绍 的沙盒游戏 (ex: Tablut，以及先前的"sandbox go") 几乎没有受众。
你偏好规则实施，这是很棒的，因为所有的"标准"BGA 游戏都有规则。
目前，我们正在使用沙盒工具更快地建立一些新的和简单的游戏，做一些实验，但大部分时间我们都在给这些游戏脚本添加规则，所以他们就像任何其他 BGA 游戏 （例如见"黑招"或"蒂基"）。
这是一个有用的工具，我们正在研究它，但我们仍然不知道如果或当它到每个人而可。
未来有什么新游戏？
我们爱我们的游戏，并希望每一个都能更受欢迎。
我们正在向三个不同方向前进：
_ 我们想要为您提供更多的工具来发现你想要尝试，并为您提供教程，所以你可以学到这个游戏的游戏。
_ 我们允许您在大厅里同时等待数个游戏。
"简单模式"已经使其成为可能。
以这种方式，你可以在等待流行游戏的同时等待一场冷门游戏。
_ 我们想要建立更好的"官网"（竞技/奖杯/排位） 以鼓励你玩所有游戏，包括冷门游戏。
以后会有更多赚取礼品点的途径吗？
也许不会。
事实上，目前在BGA 已经有很多不同的“点”(ELO，分数，声望，礼品点，卡玛......)，这对理解BGA官网肯定没有帮助。
所以我们正在考虑重新设计另一种方式。
你会除去木制背景吗？
我们还不知道。
我们知道这种背景看起来很"业余"。
但 BGA 在很长时间是一个业余的网站，我们甚至因为已经很"专业"而努力保持不忘初心。
为什么有的游戏不支持回合制？
这可以说是一个发行商和 BGA 的共同决定。
例如，回合制的空中之城将是一场断断续续的噩梦，而且以这种方式进行游戏没有意义。
这也可能是技术问题。
例如，时间大师将不得不完全重写以适应回合制。
你愿意组织线下游戏活动吗？
简短的回答： 应该不会。
详细的答案： 这是一个完全不同的新功能，它将需要大量的精力 （有些服务100%专注于此）。
你可以添加辅助功能吗？
因为 BGA 是一个 100%基于互联网的服务，我们可以与所有设备/浏览器 （缩放，语音支持，...） 所提供的辅助功能兼容。
关于游戏本身，我们必须尊重游戏艺术。
所以，如果桌游艺术提供了一些辅助功能 (比如：为色盲患者)，我们也提供。
请修复 bug XXX
为了帮助我们识别并解决最重要的 bug，请使用以下页面投票给这个 bug 和/或添加更多的信息，让我们可以重写它：
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