At the start of 2025, our focus was speed, stability, and personalization. January brought a wave of performance boosts, UX refinements, and new customization options that set the tone for the rest of the year.
Let’s revisit what made this month such a strong beginning.
Performance and stability
In January, we took another big leap toward making Balancy feel instant.
After analyzing real-world use cases in the CMS, our engineering team reduced critical interaction delays dramatically:
- First Input Delay — 5.7× faster response after clicking.
- Value Update Delay — 5.5× faster page recovery after editing.
- Component Cell Opening — 19.4× faster when double-clicking complex cells.
We also optimized server requests on the Deploy page, cutting wait times and improving overall responsiveness.
These improvements made Balancy smoother, especially for projects with large data sets or complex configurations, and that foundation continues to power the platform today.
Safari support
Mac users finally got what they’d been asking for: Balancy now runs smoothly in Safari.
No more workarounds — the platform performs consistently across Safari, Chrome, and Edge, whether you’re editing store data or managing events.
Virtual Economy Helpers — now customizable
We refined one of December’s biggest releases — Virtual Economy Helpers.
They now come with a personal toggle.
Each user can switch them on or off in their profile:
- When on, you’ll see Price Value, Reward Value, and Value Balance columns across Store Items, Offers, and Game Store documents.
- When off, your workspace stays cleaner, while still keeping full access to Hard Currency and Rewarded Ad Value settings in Project Settings.
This gave teams control over how much economic data they wanted to see — perfect for striking the right balance between detail and focus.
Smarter validation and error handling
We introduced the new Bad Link warning:
If an Enum item gets deleted but is still referenced in a document, Balancy now flags it before deployment.
This small change prevents broken references and failed deploys — a subtle but powerful addition for teams working on complex LiveOps setups.
Quality of life improvements
January also delivered a series of UI and UX touch-ups:
- Document IDs now stay visible even on tall table rows.
- USD Value language refined to use more natural “discount” wording.
- Products page and Segmentation page improved for clarity — placeholders and comment fields are now easier to spot.
- Branch merging stability improved for smoother collaboration across large projects.
These may look small in isolation — together, they made daily work inside Balancy much more pleasant.
Plugin Updates
Plugin 5.0.15 → 5.0.16 rolled out in January, bringing a mix of bug fixes and refinements:
- Localization updates now apply correctly when switching languages before initialization.
- Conditional Templates start with correct default states.
- Executing scripts from inside other scripts is now stable and predictable — for example, the Limit node resets properly on exit.
- Sprite texture clamping mode set to wrap for consistent rendering.
The Erolabs plugin (0.0.5) also got a reliability upgrade: purchase requests now return a clear Errors.NotEnoughResources code when failing, giving you precise insight into transaction handling.
Wrapping up
January 2025 was about refinement, making Balancy faster, clearer, and more personal.
These foundational improvements paved the way for the larger releases that followed throughout the year.
If you’ve been with us since then, thank you for helping shape the platform through your feedback and everyday use.
If you’ve just joined, this is where the story of 2025 began, and it only got better from here.