Ever since I got Goko I've only used it to play with IRL people. It's been fine for this.
Until last night. I tried playing with other people. I started a game that said "All Cards Except Promos" and never had to wait longer than 15 seconds to start a game. Not too bad.
Everyone I played was of pretty low level; they all seemed like they were still in the "buy lots of action cards" phase of the game, so I only lost once out of like 10 games. The games went by pretty quickly, I guess. That one loss, though, man that set my rating back. I was pleasantly surprised that one person bought a Duchy with more than $8 because buying a Province would have resulted in a loss.
I was really surprised at how many people resigned on me. I think 3 out of the 10 games went to the end. One resigned on turn 4 when he (I assume) accidentally passed me his opening Pillage when I played Masquerade. Hmmm.... One resigned before I took my first turn. I suppose it's good that they had the decency to click the resign button, though.
Hmm, that reminds me, I've been wondering if Pillage is a good opener, but so as not to derail the thread, I'm going to
start a new one. See what I did there?
But the last game, my opponent "disconnected" after several turns in a row of me playing Margrave. Yeah, OK maybe that wasn't very nice, but I gotta tell you. Sitting there for five minutes before my opponent was forced to resign was not fun. Not fun at all. I didn't want to play anymore after that. In fact, I don't want to go back into the lobbies to play with strangers. After just one time. Wow.
There seems to be little incentive for people to finish games at the moment. Do people not know what resigning does to their rating? Five minutes seems a little bit excessive here, what are we waiting for if there's no possibility to reconnect?
There's no way for me to have any chance of playing a high-level opponent, or for any type of auto-match. These things have to be fixed for Goko to be playable for me. Is this still a public beta? Why did we take iso down if this is still a public beta? Why isn't this stuff fixed? Why do I need a browser extension to have a visible game log? Why hasn't Goko done this? If amateurs who don't have access to the code can do it, why can't professionals?
Needless to say, I wish I could have paid money for a completed product, and I'm regretting that there isn't a completed product out there (that I already paid money for).