Fun game but some major drawbacks

The game is quick, fun, and an easy to use app. However…I have been playing gin rummy (with real cards) weekly for a couple of decades. I have never seen deals like this. At the lower cost tables you top out pretty quickly and can’t get packs of cards, so if you care about set collection you have to bet more. Which would be fine, except once you get to then or expensive tables the game loses all reality. Opponents get gin with one card, and the big point spread guarantees you will be losing more than the table bet because of the multiplier. In 20 years of weekly games, the times someone was dealt gin, basically are less than it happens in 20 games of this app. Add in the glitches, Wi-Fi loss even though I am streaming on my computer while playing and it connects fine, going to bed with tens of thousands of coins and waking up with only 2000, level 57 after 500+ games and still only have two decks to choose from, hundreds of duplicate reward cards but very few full sets….It’s designed to get you hooked and force you to spend money. Well, no thank you. If the games were fair I wouldn’t mind, but if I wanted to throw my money away on a rigged game I would go to Vegas.

Games rigged

I’ve read the other reviews and the responses from the game..skill has nothing to do w it I’m a very skilled player and still lose game after game the way cards are delt is all how the game is programed. 8 jokers in the deck an the opponent is delt four in a hand and you delt four sets of doubles in one hand or an almost winning hand needing one card and still lose the fact you can win or lose and your never first in a new game or jokers flipped on the first card for the other players only! That’s the games programming not the others players skill level no player idc how skilled gets a hand and before you even gets a turn they go out the prize money is the same I lose w the winner getting 163 and lose 1.2 mil but Winn w 200 and only get 600k the game is programmed against you it decides if your gonna win that day or lose so the ppl running the game can claim it’s “ skill” all they want there lying it’s the way they programmed the game not skill besides the fact this isn’t really true rummy you have to put down your cards in rummy you can’t hold them in your hand for extra points till you go out your allowed to play off the other persons hand or else it’s just straight gin creators don’t care as long as suckers keep giving them money they won’t change a thing if they wanted fair play the prices for coin pkgs wouldn’t be so expensive even the “deals” are over 30$ creators should overhaul the game but they wont

Hate that I love this game

Love the graphics and that there are always opponents. I get that they are trying to make money and I don’t want to spend any, but it stinks that as you level up, you basically can’t play lower ante hands. No card packs if you do and getting points for quests becomes virtually impossible. I finished the last album and ended up with over $1M. But then they jacked up all the tables, so about the lowest table I can play to earn packs or quest points is $10K x 4. I am a decent player and level 61, but when I have opponents gin and knock after 3-4 cards many times in just a few hands, so losing $20K to $40K a game I’ve lost $600K. New album, but after 25 games, I’ve only collected 7 packs. So, will just try not to lose all my hands and hopefully I can finish some books and get more coins. If not, I’ll probably just find another game. I’ve already bought coins a couple times when I could play lower ante hand, at this rate I’d have to spend $30 or more just to get enough coins in case I lost 3-4 hands. Love the game, just wish they didn’t penalize you for getting to higher levels.

DONT PLAY designed to take your money

DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME!!This is just another game thats sole purpose is to take your money. If you deposit cash, sure they will let you win for a while play actual real players and its fun. But after a while they’ll start putting you in matches with their computer players where they destroy you every game on the first draw and make sure they win the biggest point spread possible(you wont even stand a chance). You’ll just lose until your forced to make another purchase because its one of those games that you have to either wait 24hours for a daily bonus or pay for more coins (thats how they get you) because there is no free play! Dont let yourself be fooled Its all just a simple algorithm i child could have figure out designed to use competitive nature to empty your wallet. If your dumb enough to play this game regardless just pay attention to your deposit vs win/lose ratio and youll start to notice a pretty obvious pattern. There are alot of these types of games and the all claim to be regulated by some gaming board that make them display the odds of winning but this game definitely isn’t because they mix computer players and actual people players so they dont have to be regulated by those guidelines. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME!

Fun until level 20, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME

I was really enjoying the game until I hit level 20. At that point you can see how rigged the game is. Your opponent wins 85% of the time. And no, you aren’t losing because of strategy. You can only strategize so much with the cards you’re dealt, and most of the time the opponent wins quickly so you wouldn’t have time to strategize anyway. I don’t mind losing, but over and over again is annoying. And when you lose as many coins as you do at once with few ways to recoup them, it gets tiring. You don’t win much, but boy when you lose, you lose a lot. Rewards are terrible as well. Even if you win the little side games, you don’t get much in terms of rewards. You also need a ton of coins to be able to play higher tables to even get most rewards, but you can’t get many coins because the game is rigged to take them. The more coins you have, the more you lose. And the app developers can claim it’s all random. No it isn’t! Do not waste your time playing this game! Oh, and customer support is a joke! Don’t bother reaching out to them when there is a technical issue. They won’t issue a credit when it’s due. They should offer one for the inconvenience alone, but they don’t even do that.

Coins just disappeared!

It’s a shame, I really liked this game. Logged in this morning and had 7200 coins. I played three 1000-coin games and lost. So by the math, I should have 4200. I took a short break and was planning on going down to the 500 coin games, but suddenly I’m at zero! No way am I spending money on a game that not only has that bug, but I see no way to put in a support ticket. Maybe this review will reach someone. I’ll change it, if this can be fixed. Otherwise, I’m uninstalling. Update: I contacted them through email. I had figured out where my coins went, but found it very unfair. They answered with more explanation and I’d like to pass that on. The star multiplier at the bottom of each game comes out of the LOSER’S bank. They don’t go beyond zero, but it doesn’t matter to me. I’m not playing a game that has that kind of trick up its sleeve. Make the multipliers more clear to the players, if you want more of those players. Hidden stuff designed to make us spend real money means I automatically WON’T spend it on this game, and I’m not coming back every 4 hours to play a single hand. Smh

Deck is stacked against you…unless you pay

1. Don’t trust the high reviews. This company offers a reward if the user gives a 5 star rating and sends a screenshot of it to them. 2. You ultimately pay to play. I’m a decent rummy player, and I won lots of games as long as I spent money on the extra deals. As soon as I stopped buying “extras,” almost every single subsequent player had Gin within 5 plays. My bank has been completely drained four times in the last week. Even if I play the lowest level game of $250, I’m wiped out in one or two rounds. I have no doubt if I bought another “deal” for $7.99 alll of a sudden my wins soar. I understand that the creators need to make some money from the players, but this game is especially greedy for purchases. At least in games like Words with Friends or Candy Crush they provide lower priced “extras” like $1.99 or $2.99 and let the players’ skill contribute more to achievements and higher levels. As this rummy app functions now, I suspect that a player would need to spend $7-$10 per week just to have access any to any round above basic. So beware before you get hooked. This game is not worth the potential expense of $25 - $40 per month.

Greedy

What everybody says about the game being greedy, rigged, obnoxious, frustrating and difficult to win is true! They do pay you 7000 coins to give a review. I used to like the game I've been playing it for about two weeks. But after playing it for a while it's obvious that the game is Not using real players at all against each other! It's definitely bots! I know they say it's algorithm and blah blah blah but what are the odds of your opponent getting gin in 3 to 4 moves 3/4 of the time? The games are obnoxiously overpriced and the games that actually give awards for playing start at 1000 coins. You pretty much have to put your own money in otherwise it takes forever to get to the 1000 coin game and then you lose all your money playing anyway. I'm disappointed that they took a good game and ruined it because of greed! I don't know if they understand that people would play the game because they like the game and it would be better if they were playing against real people instead of bots. I'm so tired of these greedy gamers… Games are supposed to be fun!

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