RIGGED! Don’t invest time or money.

This game is rigged to keep you playing and buying coins. I do understand why they rig them to make you want to pay just like people said my first few times I played great hands and then you lose so many in a row and then you get the buy coin ads whoever can't see that is either a dork and lies about putting money in it or they just want to angrily vent because they're all fixed what benefit would they have in a straight game they wouldn't make much money every game out there is pay to be better any game you have to buy a golf club or a new bat or a better car and then you win a few times and then it encourages you to buy more Spades Plus is definitely not completely random, or at least wasn't years ago and I doubt they've changed anything. In the beginning players are given sensationalized deals, this is a trend I definitely confirmed. Whether they do anything else with the cards beyond that would requite a larger sample size than I'm willing to spend in that cesspool of an environment. However, given their monetization strategy, I wouldn't put it past them at all to manipulate game outcomes to promote spending.

Getting Greedy!

The app is definitely superior to the other ones I've tried except lately I keep getting thrown out of an active game when my next move is either critical and/or it's my last game$$ to play which can really be infuriating. I have been really loving the KnockOut Challenge where u have to win 3 games in row to double your bet amount and that was challenging enough. I won't lie that when your on your 3rd game and u get the option to pay for another chance that I haven't been tempted once or twice and $1-$3 wasn't a big issue for me BUT NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN you have to win 5 games in a row! I mean come on! Did u notice u we're getting us with the scenario I just mentioned and u decided to take advantage. I just think the game now went and made it less likely for me to keep playing the knock out challenges. There are some talented spades players on this app which is great for someone like me but come on, FIVE wins in a row for a player regardless of their skill level is a bit much to ask for. Sometimes you go through DAYS of the worst dealt hands by the game and we have zero control. It just made me disappointed to see that the best feature for me now got taken away! Boo for you! Three consecutive wins was perfect! 5 straight wins with medium-high connectivity issues is kinda messed up!

Fun, professional but Greedy scams

I am a good spades player... and love the game to the point where I’ll pay if I need extra coins. But I’ve observed a scam. When I pay 💰 I often get many many consecutive hands with almost zero books.. and Ofcourse they will give you an Ace of spades to make a nil impossible. I thought it was coincidence, but I realized I keep getting horrible draws when I pay money. It didn’t happen earlier on but when they see a pattern formed where you keep buying when you run out of coins... you will start to realize that your hands become very bland. The scam is that they know you will buy more tokens to play. I don’t know if it’s their Algo or what but I have observed it consistently. It’s so set up and predetermined sometimes that you can’t even call it random. Again, this is a top app, very good and amazing variety of games when I kept seeing this trend I had to speak out. This is why I don’t rate apps earlier on.... now I’ll consider deleting it. I rather save my money. I don’t mind losing fait and square.. but when I play 16 consecutive games with the same hands.. like literally... while the person next to me keeps getting 7,6,8, 4, 5 draws and to then give me one card like ace of spades where I can’t even counter with a nil to compete or catch up.. then that no longer becomes skill or even luck. It’s a phony Algo.

Things have changed

I had this app pretty much since it began, purchased some cool things and coins but lately have been getting banned for the dumbest reasons the same way I’ve been playing for years. They have the option to go blind nil. (If you know you won’t get your blind nil, and back out of the game, you automatically get coins deducted just for backing out) (sometimes a lot) and apparently got banned for “cheating” which is way is considered to this spades company if you know you can’t get your blind nil but you try and set your other opponents so they lose too. If anyone gets banned for that reason, then blind nil shouldn’t be an option for the game. The point of the game is to win. They only way you can cheat is if you happen to have a partner that knows your cards as well as you know theirs. It happens a lot on this app with other players you can tell when a opponent goes nil and throws out the king of diamonds knowing their partner has the ace to trump it right away. That’s cheating. Not when you can’t see your cards and go “blind nil” and you know your not going to get it, so you try and set the other opponent’s from getting their books as well. Never had a problem until recently, and got banned for the most idiotic reason ever. I will never play this game for that reason, and if you enjoy losing coins to actual cheaters, here’s the app for you!

app is changing from real spades to app control

I have been playing this spades app for years . I have tried so many others and this by far is the best format. However the app is really getting greedy with making money. You can play and not lose , just win , win , win and like stupid winning because doesn’t matter what do almost u win. Funny these games you don’t hear much table talk which tells me bots then you get score boosted up , rank and all sudden doesn’t matter what u do , you lose lose lose. Like up and down roller coaster. Then app decides freeze at the most important times when game is on the line and it’s happened over and over. I have got use to keeping my phone next to me in order use my phone data by switching from my tablet wifi connect to phone data. I have extremely amazing wifi speeds and connection. My son streams online videos games on a gaming computer that having beat speeds and internet connect is a must in my home so not faulty connect on my end. Anyways think all way getting you spend more money but i find myself spending less because it doesn’t give me the true joy it use to as i high end spades player experienced and able have competitive true games to win or lose legit. Maybe enough us complain and not buy in to spending more money will change some of this .

Not ‘real’ spades with ‘legit’ stats…

So… real people can and do play on this app, but bots are also randomly employed (with an ID other than ‘computer’)! If you don’t believe me, start one Apple account and one guest account, and you will get the exact same partner and opponents (and really good hands that are the exactly the same) on both accounts for at least the first five games! Thereafter, you can and will have games with ALL real people, but you’ll also get games where by all appearances, all other ‘players’ (or at least most) are bots! Also, if you play for a decent amount of time, you should notice that you’ll start having ‘streaks’ of wins and then ‘streaks’ of loses, in order to give a ‘roller coaster’ ride of fluctuating percentages (this is why only your last 100 games are factored in)… not to mention, the level is not ‘really’ only determined by ‘experience’ but rather some other manipulative factor (you can have more wins and games than another - and vice versa - yet a lower ‘level’ - and vice versa - than another! As for the ‘percentage’ of wins… you have no real way to determine if they are legitimate after the first 100 games, because as mentioned above, the percentage is ONLY determined by your last 100 games! Now I do not know if the above scenario applies ‘if’ you buy coins or their stupid emojis, as I’m not contributing funds to ‘test’ a deceptive app!

Used to be good but is now unplayable

After 4 years of having and actively playing on this app, I watched the best spades app on the market turn into an unplayable cash grab. The game is designed to bleed you pretty quickly. Firstly, the game is plagued with cheaters especially in the high roller games. Secondly, you could win every other game and still quickly run out of coins due to the fact that wins payout 75 percent of the pot. Thirdly, players can purchase a week of using a card counter which shows each card that has been played. This is a very unfair advantage over those who choose to not shell out 5 dollars a week. I’m going to keep things short and not go on about the toxic community and game hindering rating system. When I started playing ads were available to earn extra coins. Now there is a 30-45 second ad on every screen change. The “cool” custom deck art which used to be permanently unlocked through victory in very difficult tournaments, are now temporarily unlocked with limited uses. Every update I see the devs ignore the issues with the game while try to squeeze out as much in app purchases and ad revenue that they can get away with. Enough is enough fix your broken game. Your greed has made the game unplayable. I’m looking forward to the devs copy and pasted response to further show how little they care.

Warning: NPCs sabotage the game!

Sometimes I’d like to play an app for a couple of months before I decide to put money in the game. You know, to get some upgrades and what not; but I’ve only had this app for two weeks give or take, I have run across so many NPCs that purposely sabotaged the game when you’re playing and they are your own teammates! I’ve had players on my team that would bid that they would get all the books and then not be able to pull them and then I would have teammates that would bet that they wouldn’t get any books and then they purposely save their big cards and when they could throw away cards, they cut and pull a book is essentially costing me the game. I’ve had this problem routinely. I mean, if anybody is going to continue to play this game on this app, i’d recommend to get to know the community and only play with teams that you have friended because if you if you play game that you table that you have not set up and it just picks players for you, you’re gonna run a lot run across a lot of NPC’s. That’s gonna just sabotage your game and ruining everything for you because of that experience I’m gonna give it a zero rating. To the rest of you enjoy the game, but be aware that there are players that will sabotage the game on purpose.

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