Any updates on private lobbies?asked by KoreanBeagle1

Oh, yeah. Well, and I mean, private lobbies is something that really hurt my heart from the standpoint of I was running the team when we had to remove them. And it wasn't something that we actually removed. It was we had changed over some details that Duncan will probably get into, some details with the lobby system so that we couldn't continue to support the private matches. Now, it was always the thing was next quarter, we'll bring it back. Next quarter, we'll bring it back. Next quarter, we'll bring it back. And it was always something got, the resource got taken, something got missed or whatever. So finally, with a little bit of collaboration with our new friends at Turbulent, we've been able to bring back online private lobbies. So Duncan, do you want to talk any more about that? Maybe some details over why it went away?

Yeah, so it went away essentially because we did that big refactor where we got the friends and party systems to the new system that we've got that you're using in the PU now. And that just simply wasn't compatible with what we had in Arena Commander. So the option at the time was we delay this or we shut down private lobbies for now and we revisit it for the next thing. And as Sean says, priorities got shifted, people get moved on to different things and it just kept getting pushed out. Now, thankfully, we're working on it. And we didn't want to just bring them back. We want to do better with them. We want to give more. So private lobbies aren't called private lobbies anymore. They're called custom matches. And custom matches leans into you'll be able to customize more things about it. And we've got so much more planned for it. For now, we're getting what was old back with private lobbies. But we've got so many ideas, so much requests from the community for what we can add there as well.