Making Stock Trading Fun

How fun is a graph? What about a P/E ratio? For most people, not very. Sure, there are people out there who live to day-trade, but PopStocks is meant to be fun for everyone, not just people with MBAs. For those of you who've been with us for the last couple weeks, you've seen some changes to the game, including:

• Limit orders are gone
• Sliders for how much to buy/sell
• Orders fill instantly (no more pending order table)
• Simplified portfolio view

We made all these changes so that we could focus on the fun parts of the game: finding and buying stocks you like and flipping things for profits that you spend on your office. We think we've made the game a lot more approachable and intuitive (and that seems to be backed up by the reduction in feedback that players don't understand how the game works).

But we hear you advanced users, too: you'd love it if we brought back limit orders and many of our feedback items would be satisfied by us adding the ability to short a stock. Here's what I can tell you: we haven't ruled these things out. Right now we're just really focused on making a fun experience that we can build on. As PopStocks continues to grow and evolve, we'll look to bring new features (and some old ones we had to turn off) online, as long as it doesn't get in the way of the fun!

Keep the feedback coming, guys! We're having a great time interacting with you all and improving PopStocks!