Well, that explains something. A few days ago I could not understand why it would take forever for me to find a match, even when there were many other people looking. I experimented with turning off the "wait for expansions" checkbox that I had never noticed before, and that caused me to find matches right away. But it made no sense -- I had the expansions, so why would I need to wait for them? And then I noticed that the randomly chosen kingdoms for all of my games in the past week have seemed extremely similar. So that's it -- I do not (any more) have the expansions.
Username: chadhogg
Most of the features you are planning to add would have no effect on my usage of the product, except for these:
7. Option to invite specific players to your table
I've always assumed that this was possible, and that I was just too dumb to figure out how to do it. It definitely should exist.
9. Better animations when cards are gained/bought/played/...
I want the opposite of this. Long before I was a player at Making Fun / Goko I was a user of Isotropic, and it remains the best electronic implementation of the game because it could be mostly text based. I understand that most people want fancy graphics and animations, but there should be an option to play a version that requires very little bandwidth / memory / CPU time.
13. Downloadable game logs
Yes, but not just for the players of the game. Make as much data as you can available through an API for people to work with. The Dominion Salvager website made the Making Fun / Goko version of the game 1000% better.
What I would really like to see was not listed as one of your priorities: make it so that actions the user will almost certainly want to take more obvious and harder to avoid. I can't count the number of times I have just started clicking on actions when my opponent ended his/her turn and lost the opportunity to call a Teacher.
Overall, I think you've done a really good job with the product, and it doesn't need much work. It is already far superior to the previous version.
P.S. - I'm a crotchety old man who likes to own things and hates the idea of subscriptions. I know this isn't going to happen, but what I would really like to see is the option to buy a lifetime subscription for a much higher price, coupled with a promise that if you decide to discontinue the product you will open source it so that those of us who have paid for it can host it ourselves.
Username: chadhogg
Most of the features you are planning to add would have no effect on my usage of the product, except for these:
7. Option to invite specific players to your table
I've always assumed that this was possible, and that I was just too dumb to figure out how to do it. It definitely should exist.
9. Better animations when cards are gained/bought/played/...
I want the opposite of this. Long before I was a player at Making Fun / Goko I was a user of Isotropic, and it remains the best electronic implementation of the game because it could be mostly text based. I understand that most people want fancy graphics and animations, but there should be an option to play a version that requires very little bandwidth / memory / CPU time.
13. Downloadable game logs
Yes, but not just for the players of the game. Make as much data as you can available through an API for people to work with. The Dominion Salvager website made the Making Fun / Goko version of the game 1000% better.
What I would really like to see was not listed as one of your priorities: make it so that actions the user will almost certainly want to take more obvious and harder to avoid. I can't count the number of times I have just started clicking on actions when my opponent ended his/her turn and lost the opportunity to call a Teacher.
Overall, I think you've done a really good job with the product, and it doesn't need much work. It is already far superior to the previous version.
P.S. - I'm a crotchety old man who likes to own things and hates the idea of subscriptions. I know this isn't going to happen, but what I would really like to see is the option to buy a lifetime subscription for a much higher price, coupled with a promise that if you decide to discontinue the product you will open source it so that those of us who have paid for it can host it ourselves.