New gem board

ZW2007-
ZW2007- Posts: 812 Critical Contributor
edited December 2016 in MtGPQ General Discussion
I find the new blue background, combined with the frosty holiday-themed gems and the energy overlay incredibly hard on the eyes. I played the first training mission in story mode and had a hard time spotting matches even. Anyone else agree?
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  • warcin
    warcin Posts: 118
    I also don't like it but worse I am getting blank spots on the board (empty gem slot but something is there just no idea what) and I can not see what a support is by tapping it anymore...
  • madwren
    madwren Posts: 2,260 Chairperson of the Boards
    I also find it much harder to process visually. Not a fan. The gems look less round (though I think that's an illusion) and the blending of colors really makes it challenging.
  • Dr_Dobz
    Dr_Dobz Posts: 3 Just Dropped In
    Strongly agree. These colors are killing my eyes. Also, not a fan of the menus using light blue font on medium blue background.
  • Talain1
    Talain1 Posts: 10
    I hate it. It is SO much more difficult to visually process.
  • Feyda
    Feyda Posts: 105
    Just trying to play this game gives me a massive headache now. So far I hate EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT THIS UPDATE.
  • DragonSorcerer
    DragonSorcerer Posts: 182 Tile Toppler
    Getting a headache as was. Very hard on the eyes.
  • DumasAG
    DumasAG Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
    So difficult to tell what I'm doing with these gems on the board.
  • csonic
    csonic Posts: 28 Just Dropped In
    100% agree...saw the new colors and said "NOOOO!".

    D3 - I know there's this whole "Blue Theme" but this is way too hard on the eyes (esp. for us older players).

    Please at least let people chose if they want the new background or not. If I could chose the backgrounds of the cards when i played solitaire on my Windows 95 computer, this should be that hard of a request to implement.

    Thanks,
    Sonic
  • Requiem
    Requiem Posts: 8 Just Dropped In
    I would love different color themes, but also the ability to turn them off.
  • dj55
    dj55 Posts: 18 Just Dropped In
    Not a fan here either. Really hard to look at. Would love the ability to turn it off.
  • norjee
    norjee Posts: 15 Just Dropped In
    Agree, the board is weird, the thingy that makes the gem all sparkly (energize??) makes black look like blue.

    But all in all, the entire new design is AWFUL. I noticed on google play the advertisement loader screen is all nice and red: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iVRg9Y_qrJs4WyCFl9BBSaT2009wtxf3eDbfXOKoiVHc4-qMwLGvWUICVSfHM57hNY4=h900-rw in the app it's chandra on some blue background. Too much blue.

    Though i hate everything about the new ui design, slowly the design gets flatter and flatter, and lighter, what once was a black backgrounds becomes blue, the new ribbons for example, they used to be nice drawings, now they are a white vector with no relief or anything. In web design flat was/is a trend, but that doesn't make it suitable for game design, especial not a magic game (this design is more sci/fi did you guys steal the intern from marvel puzzle quest to do the design?) magic cards https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iVRg9 ... Y4=h900-rw are not flat, they are intricate. The old design felt sort of luxueus and elegant, the new design feels cold and distant not inviting/rewarding to spend time in at all. Maybe worse, it totally lacks any form of consistency. It's like the designer googled for "ribbon material vecor" found an image and put it in there, and repeated that for every design element. Take also the start screen the icons are taking so much emphasis by being big huge white blobs, that they feel extremely unbalanced.

    For a game that encourages the user to spend lots of real life money the new design feel really very cheap and unpolished. I could understand if this was an internal alpha build, but we've already had the game in public for a year, most of the time with a much richer design.
  • obsidianpeanut
    obsidianpeanut Posts: 25 Just Dropped In
    I'm finding that energize makes gems hard to distinguish.
  • khurram
    khurram Posts: 1,094 Chairperson of the Boards
    I can live with it but i would have prefered if i didnt have to in order to play the game.

    The blue background is not popular.
  • obsidianpeanut
    obsidianpeanut Posts: 25 Just Dropped In
    I'm finding that energize makes gems hard to distinguish.
  • BayTamago
    BayTamago Posts: 50 Match Maker
    I posted on Suggestions/Feedback as well
    viewtopic.php?f=36&t=55820

    I want the black background back and a semi-transparent white energy icon overlay instead of the glowy headache thing that's there now.
  • Ohboy
    Ohboy Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards
    Energise + the new background makes my eyes hurt.

    I can only imagine what pain the qb grinders will face in their upcoming challenge.
  • span_argoman
    span_argoman Posts: 751 Critical Contributor
    Chipping in that I'm not a fan of the new colour scheme either cause it is really really hard on the eyes. Takes me ages staring at the board to evaluate gem matches now, and my eyes ache from the riot of colours and unnecessary glitz.
  • ErikInVegas
    ErikInVegas Posts: 102 Tile Toppler
    It's obvious somebody that doesn't play the game heard that blue 'excites people' and made everything blue.

    Keep people that don't actually use a product with their own money away from design choices.
  • kinomoto
    kinomoto Posts: 23
    I don't have a problem with the colors, which is interesting as I usually have problems (red-green color blindness). After a game or two I became accustomed to the new gems and colors. However, I admit some of the energized gems take a few seconds to recognize.
  • majestyk5
    majestyk5 Posts: 16 Just Dropped In
    please roll back, it's ugly and tiring to look at

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