A fun experience absolutely ruined by greed

I initially thought this app was a lot of fun, and the additional word games and experience on a digital platform was great. Once you break level 5, ads become enabled… This wouldn’t be a big deal if it was just an ad between each completed game or something reasonable. It’s practically every turn (when it’s not every turn, it’s every 2 turns). It disrupts your thought process and ruins the game. It is quite literally faster to make your move, close the app, and relaunch it!! To add insult to injury, ads also get embedded in the header and footer anywhere they can stick them in the app, and occasionally ads have ads in them. I would be shocked if this wasn’t against the Apple ToS, and I’m planning to look into this. Most apps promise to shut off apps if you make a purchase with real-world currency. Not here, though. You have to subscribe to their monthly service perpetually and if you want to just buy the no-ads experience? $1 for 5 minutes of peace and quiet. That will get you… one turn. This is simply the most revolting case of shovelware ever, and if you’re interested in playing digital scrabble? Look somewhere else. Even if the other options are worse, this company is so big that it doesn’t deserve your money.

Better match matching

I would give you guys five stars. But it's the matchmaking that irritates me the most; I'm sick and tired of it recommending players to play against when they're not even online to play. The first time I was in a tournament (which was recommended by the computer by the way), I made the first move, and the person I was paired with didn't play for three days, so I forfeited the match. Then I traded a second time, and the person the computer matched me up at least made the first move before disappearing for two days. so far this has happened four times so that’s four matches I had to forfeit from before someone telling me that if the person doesn’t play don’t forfeit the computer will automatically make them the loser depending on who has the highest or lowest score… if this is why the truth why did I sit there for three days I had a way higher score than the other person you guys need to add a sleep or away button or something. To be honest, I don’t care for board games. I hate them. I don’t have the patience for them, and these people are a clear example of why I don’t play with others online and would rather play solo matches or against the computer. Please fix this if you can add a status light or something showing that the person is actually playing in real time or something.

Good, but crazy with ads

I got this game during COVID so I could continue to keep in touch with family members and play fun interactive games that also kept my brain engaged, and this game is good for that. In general, I understand that ads help to keep a game running if you don’t have to pay for anything before downloading the app itself, but the frequency of each ad in this app is absurd. You can’t go one turn without being forced to sit through a 10 second ad (at least), and often, the game gives so many ads that the app itself freezes and you have to close the app completely in order to get back to where you were. The only reason I still have it downloaded is because my family members enjoy playing with me because we don’t see each other as often as we’d like. If it was up to me, I’d delete it now. I’m sick of it. *Another thing to note: this is true of most apps out there, but there are bots who try to steal your information on this app. There’s a feature where you can send messages to your opponent — which is meant for game history and polite trash talk — and a lot of the fake players will ask you for your name and socials. Do not respond to any of those messages. I shouldn’t have to say that but it’s just a reminder; it’s untrustworthy and easy to fall for.

Needs to grow up a bit

I absolutely love traditional Scrabble and was looking forward to transitioning that romance into the digital age. Scrabble Go's actual gameplay feels wonderfully similar to the traditional board game & even prevents the usual arguments regarding word qualification through the use of its onboard dictionary. However, after an hour of passionately beating the computer opponent and considering inviting friends to download & play, the peripheral segments spoiled the experience and prompted me to remove it entirely. The advertisements started showing up at shorter intervals (ruining the pacing) as did the "prizes" and "level up!" interruptions. Why do we need prizes? Cartoonish treasure chests? Levels? There absolutely needs to be a system in place to prevent grand masters from being blindly paired with beginners, but that could be simply done with an average of historical scores or some such nonsense. I don't need a pat on the back every five minutes . . . I'm using SG for entertainment, not self-help therapy. As for the ads, I'm all about capitalism and would gladly pay $20 for this game just to keep it forever free from interruptions. When Scrabble Go matures a bit, perhaps I'll revisit it but, for now, I'm content with sticking to the board game and leaving the cartoons and ads on tv where they belong.

Want to be frustrated? Get this game!

There are SO many ads. After every turn there’s an ad. You win a prize? Yay an ad. You get a charm that makes it ad free? Great, but you have to watch one first to activate it. But that’s not all that’s wrong with this app. Doing adventures, duels, and challenges to win cool tiles is pointless. You don’t get to choose the tile when you earn enough coins. You get a random one from the 3 preselected options. If you get a duplicate, instead of just giving you the one you don’t already have, they give you scrabble coins. Which in theory would make up for that. However, it’s just a way to shove 3 hideous tile options at you, forcing you to pick between horrible, awful, and worse. This game is also full of bugs. There’s a lot of glitches and I’m sure it’s due to the million ads that are continually running in the background. Not to mention the pop ups for other things in the app. If this app is supposed to be full of other fun games beyond scrabble, it seriously needs work. The basic scrabble is just fine. All of the other stuff is terrible and sloppy. But even if you just want to play basic scrabble with your friends, this isn’t a great place to be because the app is constantly bombarding you with information about random stuff that you’re earning and that you can win. Anyway, I don’t recommend this game at all unless you want to be frustrated.

Problems During Prize Giving

I picked this app up because on FB, there was a lull with making the updates. I noticed with this app on my tablet, there isn’t a problem when rejecting the prize to go to the next game and to avoid the ads. But when you decide to accept the prize, all of a sudden there is a pop up declaring that something is wrong with the system. Ok, but what is the alternative? Will I get a chance later? Is there a cancellation prize for the inconvenience? Nope. You have to forfeit the prize. Isn’t it funny, nothing is wrong with the system when the same ads come on over and over and over again between games? To the creators, if you are interested in making the game less annoying: when playing the mini word games within (like the trophy game and bayou), the player should have a choice whether to use all of his/her tickets or not. The player shouldn’t be forced to spend his/her coins if there is a ticket left. Did you really design the game to see if you could control one’s spending? I did notice that when I used my tickets and had 101 coins to start off, at the end of playing 4 games and spending 5 coins per continuance, I saw I had 72 coins left. How? That would mean 29 coins were spent. That not even divisible of 5. That would mean I played 5 games and your game stole an extra 4 coins. Wow!

Why even call it Scrabble. What an abomination.

15 minutes. That’s all it took. 15 minutes before I realized some underage gamer had destroyed what was one of the best games ever invented - so I deleted it. I’m not a prude. I’m not technically challenged. I see younger generations struggling every day with attention span issues. I get it. But not everybody needs bells and whistles and jewels and God knows what else is imbedded in the Scrabble Go app to be entertained. If it’s about money then charge me more for the app, but to destroy a simple quality intellectual game like Scrabble and turn it into a moronic video game is asinine. You clearly could have included an option for people to choose the classic version - which, if it is available, I was unable, well unwilling, to wade through the nonsense to find it. That would have met everybody’s needs. We’re getting far enough along in the technology craze that not every computer geek or technology buff or game player is a 15 year old kid with the attention span of a goldfish. And the need to pander to said demographic while ignoring others may be at the detriment of your company. Consider there are actually older people -with money - who enjoy technology, that you may want to address in your product development and marketing efforts. If you’re designing a new game - no problem. But to destroy such a classic for no apparent reason is just ridiculous. I’m only giving one star because I have to in order to send my review.

Its not just the ads, or the frequency….

There are so many ads, yes, and $10 PER MONTH to get rid of them, which is more than some streaming services is a but much, but thats not what got me to delete the app. It was while I’m at the ice rink, while my daughter is skating, and despite my phone being on silent, an ad comes on at high volume “I’M A 34DD!” before I can close the app. Ads that don't respect volume settings crosses the line for me. Not to mention I had to use facebook to log in, you should be able to get my gender from that, and maybe targeting me, a man, with bra ads isn’t the smartest thing? Aside from the cost of ad free, and the technical problem of ads ignoring silent mode, the final bit that was annoying is that it drinks battery life like nothing I’ve seen. I would play for 15 minutes or so and my iPhone was hot to the touch. This would also lead to the app starting to become less responsive. The game itself worked fine otherwise, and the adventure mode was fun, but its nowhere near worth it. A real shame this and Words with Friends are unable to provide a quality app experience at a reasonable price. The free to play model works for other games with a good experience, and the whales pay for the cosmetics. I have no idea why the ad model works here at all, because these ads are about as ineffective as possible.

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