We ended up playing board games with a friend online via Board Game Arena, and it made for another fun night. Our roster of played games included Flip 7 (of course), A.E.R.O. (which is now known as Sausage Sizzle, apparently), Forest Shuffle (with both the Alpine and Woodland Edge expansions included), Ark Nova (with the now obligatory Marine Worlds expansion), Point Salad, and finally Let's Go to Japan! We definitely played a good mix of games and also got to test a few more BGA implementations for already familiar games. And while we try to focus on games we own copies of (because I want to track more gameplays in BGG, haha), BGA does give us access to games we've never heard of as well. Tobie really makes the most of his subscription, given his explorations of different titles.
Side note: tracking our plays via the more popular (but technically unofficial) Android app has been increasingly challenging as of late. There have been changes to the BGG API, and that's resulting in the different apps having sync issues while the developers find free time to resolve them. I'm largely okay with tracking plays for games we play a lot, but when it comes to newer games in our collection or games that we only play digitally via BGA, then the app is of little to no help. So I end up needing to go to the BGG app separately and manually track the plays there. And the native play logging page is not as clean as the app.
In other news, it's the time of the year when our Disney+ subscription is up for renewal, and I think we're skipping the annual plan this year. Over the past few years, we've been able to hold onto the launch offer from when Disney+ first entered the Philippine market. That was a great deal that kept our expenses below P200 a month on average. But I guess AliPay+ has lost the option to maintain that pricing, and that'll mean switching to the actual pricing model, which brings the costs closer to Netflix. But realistically, we watch a LOT more content on Netflix than Disney+, and I don't think splurging for the annual plan makes as much sense with the higher pricing. We'll probably reactivate our subscription from time to time when there are particular shows of interest. In theory, we're following the same practice for platforms like Amazon Prime and WOW Presents, but we've only reactivated WOW in recent months.
We all have only so much free time to work with, and there's no time to juggle so many different platforms at the same time. It's nice to try to maintain legal access to different shows, but we still need a decent amount of ROI for us to feel the value is there. And maybe unsubscribing will help send signals to the different platform owners that they need to figure out alternate revenue streams to maintain their user base.
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