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Hi, user name Nyarpy.

Features I'd really like to see:
1. An offline client, allowing you to play campaigns against bots
3. A strong bot.
7. Option to invite specific players to your table
11. Android app (particularly in the Amazon store for Kindle Fire)
13. Downloadable game logs

I don't think this has anything to do with your age. You are conflating "saying hi" with "spend an extra 10-30 minutes playing this game with me." They aren't the same type of social obligation at all.

Seriously, this is kinda crazy to me. I never once considered that rematches might be the expected thing to do or that I'd be looked down upon for not doing so. Do most people only play when they have a huge block of available time? No one squeezes in a game when they have a few minutes, or if they do they have to be apologetic? Wow.

But then we were completely unable to get a game going on Kindle Fire vs. Kindle Fire.

Was it a browser problem, or the fact that they don't have a dedicated app?

It was a browser problem, possibly combined with a matchmaking problem. When I made a table, my wife could join the table as a spectator but couldn't join the game because our rankings weren't close enough. I attempted to follow the suggestion to change the min/max rating difference, and that worked if I was setting up the game on Chrome on my laptop, but those options couldn't be changed on the Kindle. So we couldn't play a Kindle vs. Kindle game.

This past weekend, though, I finally tried it again, and we were able to play our first 4 or 5 games on the new system on our Kindles. Both of our opinions can be summarized as, "Nearly everything was better on the Making Fun app, but this certainly beats the past 7 weeks of Dominion withdrawl." We haven't played on anything but our Kindles (and don't really intend to), but I'd bet most of these problems are limited to Kindles and possibly other small tablets. This probably isn't the perfect thread to list my first impressions, but here goes anyway:

-First and foremost, it's nearly impossible to read the description of a card during your buy phase without buying it. We've taken to asking each other to read the cards out loud if we forget something because it's too big of a risk for the player whose turn it is to try to read it.

-Occasionally when we do enlarge a card to read it, it gets stuck on the screen and won't go away, and you can't do anything. Close the tab, sign back in, works again. This happened at least once per game to one of us. At least the reconnect works unlike on MF, since it's absolutely necessary in order to play a game to completion.

-Constant need to keep switching from portrait to landscape. Playing works best in landscape - everything's too small in portrait. But there are some things that can't be done in landscape. The box that shows how many actions/buys you have covers up your hand cards so you can't see if you have 2 Estates/3 coppers or 3 Estates/2 Coppers. You can click that box to make it disappear, but then it's gone the rest of your turn when you need it. But if you turn it to portrait, you can read those counters on your cards, then turn it back to play your turn. Then on your opponent's turn, she plays an Envoy or a Knight and you have to make a choice, but the choice doesn't even show up in landscape. You have to turn it to portrait to choose (or to even realize you need to make a choice unless you're paying very close attention).

-Minor annoyance with Tavern mats. On MF, they were always visible - you wouldn't forget you had a Wine Merchant on them. My wife did forget she had one on there for nearly the whole game. We finally did figure out how to see them, but having a tiny always-visible icon like on MF would be great.

-Having to make some choices by clicking tiny text in the log is really weird. The log should be a log. Decent-sized buttons should be how you make choices. I can't remember off the top of my head which choices made you do that, but it was very non-obvious what we were supposed to do.

I doubt these problems will be enough to stop us from playing, now that we actually can. But the first 3 I listed are very annoying and I hope won't be issues for long. I wouldn't recommend the game to non-addicts in its current state, at least if they're playing on a Kindle like us. But it's good enough for those willing to put up with it to get a Dominion fix.

About half of them either just didn't bother to play online anymore based on this first-time experience, or they told me to call them back when it was as good as MF was when it left.

This describes me and my wife perfectly. I followed the forums so I knew all about the changes coming up, how to transfer our purchase, etc., so at least I didn't consider that a stumbling block. But then we were completely unable to get a game going on Kindle Fire vs. Kindle Fire (the way we had been playing nearly daily for months on MF), so we gave up. I now look at the forums every couple weeks, see that it looks like no major progress has been made, and lament that we're wasting our free year subscription.