Zone 2009
From Badges Wiki
On 1st April 2009, the whole MSN Games site underwent a major redesign. The new front page focuses mostly on free online games, with numerous lists of them (this is referred to by some users as "busy"). The badge album was also replaced with a new version, however it seems to have some disadvantages for the badge collectors:
- Games in which you don't have any badges yet are no longer shown in your album which makes it very hard to find new badge-winning games.
- You can not see what your current high score is without playing a game.
- You can not see what your lifetime score is without playing a game.
- All the Mastery and LTP badges were replaced with generic images.
- The album doesn't provide access to all badges in the same page, which means it's impossible to use the Analyzer on it.
Reception
Feedback on the new interface wasn't really that positive. Most players believed that this was an April Fools joke, seeing the release date. However, MSN hasn't reverted it or used any of the suggestions. They left the Canadian version Sympatico untouched for some time, allowing most of the 1000BC members to use this site. There were also members who just left zone.com entirely out of frustration.
