Just curious, how many of you allow User Settings?  (eg. to allow users to choose the game row layout).  It;s this screen right here:

 

 

I've turned it off for a couple of reasons:

1.  The biggest reason is that unless users are aware of the User Settings, I highly doubt anyone is going to go poking around in their Account Settings (which, by the way, is different from the Profile) to adjust their game settings.

 

2.    Do a significant amount of users actively change their game settings?  Do you have data behind it (eg. out of 2000 players who registered and played in your arcade, 1500 of them changed their game settings).  I don't see that happening, and would rather keep it 'simple and stupid' for my users, especially in the beginning.  

 

Keep in mind that my community's Arcade is brand new, so my users won't have the same kind of historical knowledge that maybe your users do (eg. if they're already aware of user settings, it's hard to "take away."  But if they never had it, they don't know they want it.)  Curious to hear what you all think.  

We try an keep everything we have active, more to show what the arcade has to offer.  As far as I know, unless tube catches the data in a log somewhere, how many users actually use the settings.  We put those in so that a user can define the arcade to look the way they feel comfortable with it.  Some like more content and some less, some users would like to see the game layout in a different view so we try to provide several different layouts and they can choose the one they want.  Pros and cons to everything

5 minutes ago, Legionaire said:

We try an keep everything we have active, more to show what the arcade has to offer.

For the demo site here on IPSProArcade, I think that's a great strategy to show everything off 🙂  

 

It would still be interesting, even among Arcade admins, to see how many of us actually changed the game settings to something other than the default.  We would be power users of Arcade.