Pickflix is by no means market ready and will need a lot of development and even more marketing. Just spending an hour or so messing around with the site I was able to come up with the following issues.
PickFlix is in BETA on the Rinkeby Test Network. For those of you who don’t know what Rinkeby is, it is A proof-of-authority , started by the Geth team or testing. The Ether can’t be mined; it has to be requested.
When I tried to run the game on the testnet it couldn’t even load my requested and took ages to load the lobby
Terrible looking website
The website looks horrid, like something out of an Angelfire or Geocities site from the early 2000’s. It really offers users very little in terms of user experience and by no means an inspirational appeal. The call to actions are weak and there is no obvious user flow.
The site actually looks more like a maintenance page for a site that is yet to come than an actual working prototype on a testnet.
Clunky user experience
As with most ETH dApps you will need Metamask installed in your browser and while the sign-up process is easy it could do some work in terms of guiding the user on each step.
When you land on your dashboard you’re crudely thrown into a master account page with no guide on what to do next. You Kind of stumble around and figure things out and with so little incentive to do so, I hardly feel it was worth the effort and I’m sure many users will feel the same way.
Gaming explanations too complex
When reading through the documentation it was by no means clearly apparent on what I was meant to do or the value proposition on why I should do it. I think video explanations (since you are a movie based dApp) would be most welcome in explaining how the game works, why it’s fun, why you should get involved.
It was only when I signed up and went into the lobby that I really understood what was going on.
Also, there were not even test movies available for you to try out lol so you just have to hope and imagine what it’s like. This shouldn’t even be listed if you can’t even use the game even ina testnet phase
Pick Flix Lobby with no active movies
What I think of Pick Flix
As with every dApp I do think the concept has a lot of promise and could be fun if integrated with local movie theatre loyalty programs and movie review sites like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes.
I think if the application thought a bit bigger to integrate user-generated content into the site and allow viewers to add their thoughts, reviews, ratings on the movie it would offer a richer experience for people and they would be more inclined to participate each week.
The game itself isn’t much of a game changer so they would need to rely on strategic partnerships in order to introduce the game to a wider audience and then to integrate it with users normal flow of finding information on upcoming movies.
If the can achieve this, the game might take off!
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Published at Sat, 04 May 2019 16:35:01 +0000
