RE: Which Splinterlands update are you most excited about? (Splinterlands and SBI Giveaway #8)
Voted for
- Asynchronous tournaments. Not yet released, but I would like to join tournaments even when I'm offline.
This is a feature I thought would be useful ever since that time before tournaments were officially released, and some people had begun creating unofficial tournaments (I think it was by the end of 2018). I remember I had considered taking part in a tournament, but couldn't because it would be happening at an inconvenient time for me. Asynchronous tournaments would make it so that we won't need to worry about timezone differences or not being available to play at the time the matches are happening.
Aside from that, though, I wish they would do something about the accessibility problems on the website. As a visually impaired player and user of screen reader software, I'm having a lot of trouble to select the cards when sending them to battle. I was excited when they mentioned accessibility updates in that news post, but unfortunately the problem that is affecting me wasn't fixed.
The asynchronous tournaments could really be game changer for tournament battles. Splinterlands is a global game, after all. A convenient time for me, say 5pm could be most inconvenient for those whose timezones are 12 hours apart from mine.
On the accessibility front, that's one aspect of accessibility I haven't considered. But now that you mention it, I have noticed that steemmonsters.com isn't the most accessible or compatible website out there. It's not the same issue, but I've had trouble loading it in some machines too. Hope they get it fixed so everyone can have a more enjoyable time playing the game. I wonder if this has been brought to the developer's attention?
I've left comments on the SM posts and mentioned the accessibility issues many times, but no one has ever said anything. Recently I created a topic about this on the Splinterlands forum. Let's see if anything comes out of it.
I'll check out that forum post. Maybe it just needs to make a little bit more noise to get it in the developers' agenda. It could be a numbers thing, after all.