{"id":39801,"date":"2023-06-19T16:41:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39801"},"modified":"2023-06-19T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:41:55","slug":"board-game-arena-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/19\/board-game-arena-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Game Arena Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.asmodee.com\/news\/asmodee-acquires-the-digital-platform-board-game-arena-to-pursue-innovation-in-board-game-across-the-globe\/\">Asmodee<\/a> (in 2021):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/corporate.asmodee.com\/news\/asmodee-acquires-the-digital-platform-board-game-arena-to-pursue-innovation-in-board-game-across-the-globe\/\">\n<p>Asmodee announces the acquisition of Board Game Arena (BGA), the digital multiplayer board game platform, to provide BGA with high visibility among the consumer market and accelerate the release of Asmodee&rsquo;s long-awaited successes by players.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2010 by Gr&eacute;gory ISABELLI and Emmanuel COLIN, BGA has emerged as the global leader in online board games. The platform provides official online versions of more than 250 games, supported on 40 languages, to more than 5 million members around the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@danluu\/110473629290292544\">Dan Luu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@danluu\/110473629290292544\"><p>I wonder if it&rsquo;s possible for a good platform to unseat BGA as the default place people play board games online within a decade. BGA offers a more mainstream-friendly UX than the major alternatives (BSW, yucata), but it&rsquo;s comically bad on both performance and correctness (I frequently see blatant concurrency bugs that appear to come from not thinking about concurrency at all, serious rules errors go unfixed for years, etc.)<\/p><p>My feeling is that this is effectively impossible because you&rsquo;d need to have hundreds of games to compete but, with how little money there is in online board games, the only way to get there is to let basically anyone implement games for your platform with little quality control, guaranteeing extremely buggy code.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>When BGA got acquired, there was grumpiness about how the owners made $$ from volunteer labor for an indie site.<\/p><p>Some predicted this would cause mass migration to yucata but most devs doing free labor for a platform just want to be on the biggest platform and most users want some combination of the biggest platform and the least janky UX[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/14\/reddit-api-ama-and-user-revolt\/\">Reddit API AMA and User Revolt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/19\/garbage-collection-in-javascriptcore\/\">Garbage Collection in JavaScriptCore<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/chrome-vs-safari-energy-use-and-compatibility\/\">Chrome vs. Safari: Energy Use and Compatibility<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asmodee (in 2021): Asmodee announces the acquisition of Board Game Arena (BGA), the digital multiplayer board game platform, to provide BGA with high visibility among the consumer market and accelerate the release of Asmodee&rsquo;s long-awaited successes by players. Founded in 2010 by Gr&eacute;gory ISABELLI and Emmanuel COLIN, BGA has emerged as the global leader in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-06-19T20:41:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"860a97e1-bd78-4259-b5fd-78aa27b213b1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-19T20:41:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AhgqX4b14Qlm1_XiqJ7ITsQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[66,910,2414,101,96],"class_list":["post-39801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-board-game","tag-board-game-arena","tag-business","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39802,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39801\/revisions\/39802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}