NEVER DELETE THE APP!! For years it was 5 stars but…

I want to give it 5 stars my wife and me over being boyfriend and girlfriend into fiancés into marriage for our entire relationship this game was our nightly routine and we LOVED it even all the additions of the animals etc became inside jokes and fun for us…. But thanks to apple out dating my phone I couldn’t take pictures on our honeymoon not enough space so I erased all my apps thinking I’ll just re download them after our trip… after doing so everything is gone… we lost all of our coins gems portraits animals hints rockets bullseyes bees EVERYTHING back to level one. There is no way to link and access everything again I’ve tried. Messaged support multiple times and had one response that said they might be able to help us yet days later I haven’t gotten a response again… from being our favorite app as it became a core memory for us to now not even wanting to open it again I think I need to just accept and delete it cause now it’s just sad and disappointing since we were easily past 1k in levels etc.. if you never delete it this app was 5 stars enjoy it. But if you lose it all it’s not worth going back after playing for years.

Great game, but…

I have been playing Wordscapes for 5+ years now and it’s been my favorite go-to game to pass time while still using my brain. It’s been great watching this game grow into what it have become, from the pet system, to earning pfps, the mount rush, all of it, I really like it. However, there are certain things that really take away from the motivation to play and enjoyability. One being the incessant number of ads in the game. I purchased the no-ads feature, but the sheer number of ads you get for completing a level or tapping out of the game for a quick second are ridiculous. I get that everyone has their money to make but come on you guys. My other issue with this game is that it seems like it is intentionally keeping you from earning top grade rewards. I do the Wednesday-Thursday challenge of earning profile pictures and the drop rates for certain pictures are way too low. There are two sections I’ve been grinding for over a year now because I am only missing one part for the picture and it won’t drop. I just went through 35 boxes, and it would not drop that one missing picture and that is frustrating. I have the same issue with mount rush, but I won’t get into that. Other than that, the game is fantastic. As a long time player, I hope you guys see this review and really take it into consideration. Thank you!

Check your in-app charges!!!! Please read!

READ THIS: Below is my original 5-star review. I’m back to change it to one-star. There’s been a huge money grab from the developers lately—from charging people 2-3Xs for a single in-app purchase, to now making players pay $9.99 per month for ad-free when it used to be a one-time purchase. I’m so disappointed I feel like deleting the app altogether & I would, except I’m a team leader and my team is like family. For those already playing: CHECK YOUR IN-APP CHARGES!!!! I missed the over-charging for a month, so I suspect many don’t check or notice the double and triple charges. ORIGINAL REVIEW: This is the only game that I’ve never gotten tired of playing despite having been playing for over four years now! It helps keep my brain sharp & my mind entertained while also offering an added benefit of an extremely friendly social environment. My team has become like family & that’s priceless! It’s so wonderful to have some place wherein people from all walks of life & a variety of ages can be friends without all the distractions and stress of polarizing issues that abound these days. I also highly recommend paying the one-time charge to go ad-free because it’s totally worth every cent. I actually appreciate that it’s not an ongoing subscription, but only a one-time fee that improves gameplay exponentially! If you want a fun, beneficial for your brain game with awesome people who quickly become your friends-this is the game for you 😁

Old Version Better/Coin Issue

I’ve played this game for a few years now and noticed a disappointing new feature with the coins. In order to use them now you must purchase them. This was not a requirement with the old version and makes me consider deleting the game daily as the use of the coins used to provide you with helpful features like; revealing one letter of your choice for a difficult word, etc. It’s a bit illogical to continue to show us coins that we’ve earned through finding additional letters or for reaching a certain level, yet we have no access to them unless we purchase them??? It feels like a design flaw as you play and really makes me wish I hadn’t updated to this newest version. Other than that I would have given 5 stars but it’s such a nuisance I have to grade much lower despite truly enjoying playing the game. Suggestion: Get rid of the option to pay for coins per player's choice if you decide to keep the paid “earned coins” version of this game as most people are never going to bother purchasing anyway it’s like having a commercial running in the upper right corner of your television screen while you’re watching your favorite TV show. It cheapens the look and feel of the game. It feels like the game creators are begging for money as opposed to a real game which would never have a running advert in the corner. Otherwise the game is perfect.

Ads are out of control

I play this game all the time. Or I should say I used to. I understand ads help pay the bills. Programmers need to eat, too. However, ads have gotten more and more instrusive as time goes on. They are now on a timer. Regardless of whether you’re in the middle of a puzzle or not. Forming your last word to complete the level? Ad. Trying to get that extra couple of stars by beating the timer? Ad. Close and reset the game? 10 second in….ad. Finish a puzzle? Ad. Start a puzzle? Ad. They were tolerable being before or after a puzzle. I could at least close and restart the game getting me back to the puzzles quicker. But during a puzzle with no warning? No hint at all that it’s coming? Intrusive and frustrating. Making ads not last so long (5 seconds at MOST) and NOT HAVING TO SIT/TAP-CLOSE THROUGH 3 LAYERS OF THEM would have been better. Some ads even force open the App store or Safari (regardless of if you close them or not) opening up all kinds of channels for viruses, spam hacks, or accidental purchases. How am I supposed to know this “advertiser’s” website is trustworthy? I’ve played this game for a couole years now as a form of relaxing and zoning out but not anymore. I can’t even do THAT without getting begged and hounded for money at every single turn. I’m not giving my money to a company who resorts to these kinds of measures, even if that means paying removes the ads. Ridiculous. I can’t recommend this game to anyone. Deleted.

Good game - needs improvement

I've had this game for over a year & have become a little invested. I have family/friends that like to do the tournaments; they find them fun. It's creative, has good graphics, cool animals and interesting puzzle combinations. It's a great time filler when you just want to play a quick game to relieve stress or change the pace. However, there is some room for improvement. Many of the puzzles have too many repetitive words; for me that gets annoying. Secondly, you can tell that these are young developers who came up with the words for the puzzles, because they allow many new words and omit some of the other common/old words from the dictionary. It almost seems random how they decide on the words in/out of a puzzle. Thirdly, there are too many ads even without paying for them to be removed. If you pay, that will get rid of most of them but you still have to deal with them somewhat. There are also a lot of glitches. You may enter a word into a puzzle and it will appear not to be there, but then try to enter the word later into the same puzzle and it will populate. It's weird! Or like bonus gifts where you watch a video, it may glitch or doesn't play, or reward you properly at the end. There's definitely room for some improvements but overall, the game is entertaining.

What happened?

I have been playing this game for years. It is truly one of the only games I’ve played that didn’t require me to watch the ads repeatedly throughout the game so I have come to rely on it for peace of mind when I want to just relax and take a break from the world. Ads have now become part of the way we interact with the game. However, the ads are not even vetted. I just got an ad that requires me to load the game with no way out except to restart the game and not even get credited for watching it. Others try to make me believe that my phone has a virus or that it is an updated version of WS. The algorithm is broken to allow certain teammates to get access to the helps while the rest of us have to take time to check the chat repeatedly for nothing. Some players are getting 5 helps or more from one request. The game is fundamentally broken at this point but the creators have been so busy adding new features that they haven’t gone back to fix the glitches that continue to plague it. People can no longer purchase an ad free version of the game and people are leaving the game entirely out of frustration. The updates have blocked some people who paid for an ad free game. If you want to make money, then present a fair offer, but the glitches, poor customer service etc is ruining the overall experience. Before you add more features, fix what’s broken.

“Support” is laughable and infuriating!

I have played Wordscapes for years and am a team leader of a successful, always full team. In recent weeks the game glitches have been out of control. This week, the tournament was completely unavailable to me. Just never appeared on my phone. I first sent a support request here through the App Store and was told I had to do that through the game settings. I then did so. After about 12 hours I received a response saying they had been noticing some issues with the tournament but it was all fixed now. It was not. The tournament was as absent from my game as it had been all weekend. I sent a new request explaining this, and after another 12 hours received a different response asking if I had tried restarting my phone. I replied that of course I had tried that, and restarting the app, everything I could think of. All of the ridiculously obvious potential fixes I could apply from my end, I tried. I sent a third request and just received a response from a third person who clearly had never bothered to read the first two requests I sent and he insultingly told me I couldn’t enter the tournament under 9 hours before it ended and that I should have played a round so it would count and enter me in the tournament. As if I didn’t know this as a years long player and team leader. How was I supposed to do that, however, with no tournament to enter. It’s just laughable and insulting.

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