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Words With Friends Classic App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Words With Friends Classic app received 174 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Words With Friends Classic? Can you share your negative thoughts about words with friends classic?
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✓ This USED to be a great game!But the new version is tacky-looking,with nasty colours and a badly designed letter rack..... but even worse are the rubbish daily challenges and various awards that I DON’T Want and can’t get rid of. The older version was a grownup word game that was relaxing to play. This has so many distractions and flashing images that it is anything but relaxing!! So disappointed and considering deleting the game after playing with much pleasure for 8 years...... please bring back the proper classic version..Version: 14.71.2
✓ Why is nobody listening to us???Don’t the developers realise that if someone bothers to post a review, they have something to say that is worth listening to? Almost all the most recent reviews are giving this app only one or two stars, and for much the same reasons - flaky app that crashes or deletes accounts, too many ads and no fair way to purchase, dodgy ‘words’ in the dictionary, pointless challenges, ‘prizes’ that encourage you to cheat on your opponent, no response EVER given to people’s concerns, no ability to get help when things go wrong. With this litany of issues this app is heading for oblivion, those of us who endure playing only do it to keep in contact with our actual friends, we have been playing for years, but have no loyalty to the app which treats us in such an off hand manner - if something fairer and more responsive comes along, we will dump this app in droves!!.Version: 16.71.1
✓ Ads, Ads, & more AdsI spend more time unsuccessfully trying to exit ads than playing the game. This one literally freezes me out from the game and I have to restart to play again - what’s up with that? PROUD TO BE CANADIAN $75 Tim Hortons. im forton) GET A $75 TIM HORTON'S GIFT CARD!.Version: 19.00.1
✓ Duches$How about a no ad version. This is so annoying with long ads after each play…not fun. I used to love this game but now not.Version: 19.21.2
✓ JammedI have loved using this game for years and suddenly it just stopped working, seemed to jam! Nowhere to seek help! Sadly I have now had to delete and have lost all my games, contacts and history. Not happy.Version: 11.91.3
✓ DisappointedI was loving this game WwF Classic until a week ago. For some reason my “Mini Games Leader Board” was removed. It will let me play the games; however, my scores never get recorded. It’s not fair! They were being recorded up until a week ago, but not anymore! I sent a HELP request to the company. They told me to force close the game; check to see if there are any new updates, and if that doesn’t work to unload and download the game; but they didn't really recommend it because there is a possibility I could lose my data, my scores, etc… so now what? I’ve done all of their suggestions, EXCEPT, unloading and downloading the game because I don’t want to lose my data! I am so Disappointed because I don’t get to have my scores recorded for winning my mini games! Why can’t they just put it back, and open it back up in my game??.Version: 16.41.3
✓ Way too many ads can’t even play the game because the ads are so aggressiveWay too many ads for sure.Version: 18.60.9
✓ Annoying things about WWFUPDATE: deleted. An ad after every play now. I mostly play practice games against the computer. Suddenly, since the last bug fix, my practice games keep freezing with the message "oops, something went wrong" and i am unable to release that game by quitting it. After three such "stuck" games it says i have hit my limit of practice games. Please fix this. Also, i agree with the other player who said they hate all this extra junk of achieving levels and accomplishments and not being able to opt out. Please go back to the way it used to be when we could just play a game unmolested by all that unnecessary nonsense. Please get your rules for valid words in order. For example, sometimes abbreviations are valid, sometimes they are not. This is probably why "real" scrabble doesn't allow any, because they are too numerous. And it’s not just abbreviations that are problematic. You need a better dictionary. And finally, get your search functionality aligned with your valid word list. I've had two frustrating experiences. First, i put a word in search and it came back with a definition yet when i tried to play it the games told me it was invalid. Second, when "practice" played a word i didn't recognize (and no definition was displayed) i put it into the search only to be told the word was invalid. Cheat much?.Version: 12.50.1
✓ Ditch this gameHave used this game for several years. Used to find it fun. Two significant problems. 1: they have made up their own dictionary and it won’t allow words that are clearly in both Chambers Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary and 2: the adverts are now so intrusive that it spoils the game completely. Others developers have discrete adverts in ribbon fashion along the top or bottom the screen - this bunch have adverts that can stop the game sometimes for a minute by which time you are so irritated that you close the game down. This is a shame because this game has potential..Version: 17.42.1
✓ Utter RubbishSometimes things are best left alone! If it ain’t broken don’t attempt to fix it, especially if you have no clue about what you are doing. So many problems with this Zynga words with friends. I don’t know how many players are 7 years old and under, but I really don’t want any little coloured boxes or word bonuses, or for my opponent to have a power up to get another chance to swap tiles! Lol this is a complete joke. Word feud stomps all over this once great game. If they offered you free cash to download the app I wouldn’t recommend it, just an absolute waste of time. Your good at Poker Zynga, go back there, and leave this to a developer who actually knows what there doing. Peace..Version: 12.50.1
✓ Getting worse every updateEvery time the thing gets updates the advertising is increased. now its full screen videos that run 3 to 5 seconds without being able to fast forward it. Similiar to youtube and their increased advertising. whats next for this app? two commercials in a row?.Version: 13.05.1
✓ Repetive (Word Wheel)There's literally no thought is put into unique/new words in the mini-game word wheel. Its always the same same letters/words in like all the puzzles! There's no challenge whatsoever! Its always the same words: Are, Era, Eat, Ate, Rat, Act, Cat, Car, Art, Tea whenever letters A,E,R,T,C are involved. Same words: Now, Not, Nor, Nos, Own, Won whenever letters N,W,O,R are involved. Same same Ski, Ink, Kin etc words! Sometimes the same EXACT puzzle is repeated, say, in puzzle 2 and puzzle 8. I mean common!!! There are SO MANY LETTERS AND WORDS IN ENGLISH! Stop bringing down Word With Friends with boredom! The CREATORS need to actually be CREATIVE like the word suggests!. PLEASE! WWF is an Epic game!.Version: 17.12.1
✓ Love the game but….Love the game but it forever freezing and blacking out. Have to restart my phone non stop to play the game :(.Version: 17.91.2
✓ Drains battery - poor power mgmtLacks good power mgmt app. A short play of an hour reduces my battery by 25%. To save my battery during the day, l’m not leaving the app on. Interface is too busy with activities that I’m not interested in. Finding controls to turn off features were difficult to find. And when I turned off features for my account it only applies to the device, so I had apply it to each of my devices. And the changes didn’t stick. I’d see the device revert to default settings. Not sure why but it was more work to manage. The advertising is annoying which is probably the intent of the developer to get some money. But I’m just annoyed so why would I pay the developer any money. Love the game but annoyed by everything else around it. But poor battery usage due to the lack of energy efficient app design and programming is unacceptable..Version: 14.01.1
✓ Hate the bells and whistlesI’m new to Words with Friends, and so far I’m not enjoying it at all. Why must I subject myself to casino-like distractions? It’s all so immature. I’d like simple, clean boards, tiles, and scores..Version: 14.52.1
✓ Great GameGood to keep in contact with busy daughters, even using the message section to do our messages to each other. NEW REVIEW still playing this game and enjoying it, but accepted a game challenge from a person not known to me.....BIG MISTAKE!..I think it was a scam....he was saying weird things and wanted to go to a private chat room....it really creeped me out....have screen shots of comments if needed. I have tried to report this man within the game , but you will not let me sign in..... EVERYONE ......PLEASE BE CAREFUL..Version: 8.62.1
✓ FrustratedI’ve been playing words with friends for many years now. I’ve been slowly becoming more and more disappointed with the changes and now, I’m really frustrated by one change. After opening the box for the daily reward, apparently the only way to get past the “option” of ‘great’ or ‘watch video for 3 coins’ is to close the app entirely and reopen, as the ‘great’ option doesn’t work. I just want to play words with friends like I used to, I’m sick of all the changes. Can you just keep it simple, please?.Version: 12.11.1
✓ Ads causing game to lockupI understand ads are required to generate money but allowing ads that lock up the game and the only way to play is to force stop and load the game again. This is the ones that appear at the bottom of the screen. The X at the top of the screen does not work. Also ads used to return to the game after 30 seconds but now I have to close the ad otherwise the ad remains on the screen until I take action, which is often several key strokes..Version: 18.01.3
✓ Game is great until they decide to upgrade and not tell you!I’ve been playing word with friends for several years now and have never had a complaint. In fact I enjoy the game very much. My complaint comes when recently I’ve been trying to get into my word with friends app and everything appears to be opening as usual until I get nothing but a blue screen and nothing will happen. I finally give up and try again later. Except later I get the exact same thing. This has gone on for a couple weeks now. I’ve lost all my stats and power ups, everything I’ve worked to gain. I have 40 games that people probably think I’ve just abandoned. I’ve tried to go back to App Store and get words with friends 2 ....... different game and all my information from the the version didn’t transfer. I’m unbelievably upset and therefore wouldn’t recommend this to anyone who wants to play long term. There is no number to contact anyone. There is no email to contact anyone. Because I cannot get into the app there is no support to chat with. Everything just lost. If I could give lower than 1 Star right now I would do so!.Version: 14.70.2
✓ MehWould have been a good free game, though have had to delete it because it freezes and crashes my phone all the time. Not even sure if half the players know how to play since they take 10 mins to make a move.. The move of 'skip your turn'. Don't waste your time until they update the bugs..Version: 0
✓ Words with friends classic gameIt is with complete disdain that I continue to play this utterly contrived result game, in favour of the house. It is impossible for “the house” to be able to play the obscure and almost unheard of words (miraculously 7 letter words indecently consistently) from the choice of limited letters that is available to the home player. I have kept a list of words played and the majority would not be known by relatively intelligent people working from their personal knowledge without a “universal” word base. It does get to me a bit but I seldom if ever buy letters in order to win. I just resign, shake my head and WAIT for the next available opportunity. I know you can continue against all odds occasionally and win especially if you eat to BUY..Version: 16.91.2
✓ Poor PerformanceOver the last months this game has got worse and worse You can no longer get rewards on most of the games you play The same excuse is given that something went wrong try later but this has been going on for weeks. Either fix it or scrap it The dictionary also needs to be overhauled and start allowing words that are in common use Overall very disappointed with this App Will be deleting it soon if improvements not made 😡😡😡.Version: 16.21.2
✓ British EnglishEDITED: PLEASE READ I preferred choosing British English where words were "real" and not made up by Zynga. By joining British & US English together as a language this game has allowed gone downhill IMO. Half the words have no definition and the pitiful excuse given is poor! Many of the British words are now deleted e.g. Oxo, could be played before but not now!! Many of the US words are incorrectly spelled or need apostrophes to be real words e.g. "who's" or slang words "obv" for obviously for example. Swear words "Jeez" (short for Jesus) and American slang should not be permitted..Version: 17.13.1
✓ Daily word game a jokeUsed to be you could play the daily word and try and score 201 points in 4 words or watch a video and get 4 more tries. Now, the daily word game is 1120 points. For 2 days you had as many tries as it took. Now, they changed something again and you only get 4 tries to make 1120 points. How jacked is that? You can watch a video (when they are working and not just spinning and spinning waiting for something to pop up and get another 4 tries. I didn’t bother after I saw how many dam videos I’d have to watch to get to 1120 points. There is always something messed up on this app. I’ve been playing this game since 2011. I love this game except for the trolls thinking it’s a match site. Seems like every time they add some new game or prize, something else gets jacked. It has NEVER worked right on any one day. Please fix ur issues. It’s a fun game which I enjoy playing everyday. And, when you add or change something, test it out before it goes on line. 🙄🙄🙄🙄. Twice now my reward for level 6 and 8 showed 400 coins. I got zero. NOTHING FOR A REWARD..Version: 17.70.1
✓ WordsWell this used to be my favorite game and now it’s the last one I play. I paid for the ad free version but then they introduce so many changes I have to watch ads to play. You can’t beat solo without buying coins or watching videos. It’s completely set up to cost you. Very disappointed in the updates.Version: 19.00.1
✓ Suspicious playersI love playing words with friends, but I have encountered a number of strange individuals when I accept challenges from people I don’t know. It’s the comments. First hi, then hello, then how are you etc. I end up blocking them because it seems like they are probably scammers. I saw another review from a woman who encountered either a scammer or a pervert. Just something for people to be wary of and it would be good if there was some way the app admin could identify and block these users..Version: 11.71.1
✓ Adverts!This game has been absolutely ruined by the money-grabbing owners of this app. It makes it unplayable as it shows you an advert (you can’t skip and tricks you into going to the store) after EVERY move..Version: 19.00.1
✓ Great EXCEPT for Solo Challenge GlitchOverall the game is fun but when it glitches it’s a real pain. Regularly it will glitch in Solo Challenge giving message of ‘Oops. Something went wrong’ and there’s nothing you can do. We close the app. We restart phone. We’ve even deleted and reloaded app. All you can seem to do is wait for end of week when new solo challenge loads. This has happened multiple times to both my husband and me. Rarely write reviews. Only writing this one because I’ve been battling this issue and today’s daily challenge is to play a solo challenge game. Seemed like rubbing salt in the wound. Then App Store ‘give a review’ popped up and figured it was a chance to give feedback. There’s nowhere in the game to give feedback on issues so this seemed the only option besides having to just live with it. Otherwise- really enjoy the game. Play it every day..Version: 15.60.2
✓ Absolutely awful, allows so many words with no meaning!!This game has become ridiculous. It allows 'words' which can't be be found in any dictionary and can't even give a definition itself. Then it won't allow a word that is in the dictionary! Also sometimes it accepts VU and another time it doesn't. Most of the two letter words it allows have no meaning anyway. It's no longer a game of skill, you can't play it without using Descrambler or suchlike as you'd never dream up the words it will accept..Version: 10.35.1
✓ Too many pop upsI miss the old words with friends when you could just play scrabble with your friends. Now the app is starting random games with strangers, trying to get my to get points to have levels, a million ads. So annoying I’ll just play scrabble in real life thanks..Version: 18.30.1
✓ Too much baggage!Enough with the daily goals already! Great app but there is so much peripheral stuff going on with daily goals and word of the week after every move etc. really annoying!.Version: 12.70.9
✓ You’ve gone too far!I’ve been playing Words with Friends for years but the recent (unrequested) upgrade has made it annoying, irritating and unpleasant! As soon as lockdown is over this app will be deleted. It says it is suitable for ages 4+... best make that up to age 4! All these silly adverts for childish games! that you can’t turn off for up to 30 seconds, and can’t silence.. silly daily challenges..,after every turn . I don’t want your badges and medals for achievement🙄... Please can we go back to playing scrabble with a few grown up adverts?.Version: 14.31.1
✓ Keep it simpleThis game in itself is fine although I’m not convinced by some of the words the app plays! But why has it recently become so unnecessarily busy and complicated with so many “extras”. I don’t want different coloured letters, goals, frames and heaven knows how many other pointless awards. I just want to play a game of making words on a board from the letters given me trying to score as much as possible to beat my opponent whether real or virtual. I just want a scoreboard, opportunity to swap letters and hints as to where I can play. THAT’S ALL I WANT. I’m very close to deleting this app it’s got so annoying..Version: 16.91.2
✓ Don’t waste your timeThis app barely works. Takes an age to load and then kicks you out. Silly ads frequently leave you with a seized device that you then have to reboot. Weeks go by before an update appears and then other problems occur. Steer well clear of this and words with friends 2. It is rubbish! Nothing changes — if you want to restart your device every time you play this is the game for you. Guaranteed that you’ll spend more time restarting than playing!.Version: 18.80.1
✓ Too bogged down in garbage to workMy god, what has his app become? It’s insanity, the obsession with piling in more junk, rewards, coins, stickers, “claim” all your rewards, ugh! I just want to play the word game, I don’t want to spend 20 minutes every time I open the game “claiming my rewards”. The past couple of versions have been so bad, so SLOW. You have to individually “claim” like 20 “rewards” for every 10 minutes you spend playing the game. And each “reward” comes with about a 10 second lag before you can “claim” the next one, and in between them all you have to watch more never-ending animation while your idiotic presents jump around the screen. I don’t care about this stuff, it’s annoying, and it’s absolutely taken over the game. This app has become a nightmare for anyone over the age of 5 or with an IQ over 50. If you’re going to make all this deranged reward stuff mandatory to play the game, and make us spend half our time in the app clicking on unnecessary annoyances, at least fix the lag so it doesn’t freeze up the screen every time..Version: 16.21.2
✓ Played since 2011Sadly the developers have ruined this game. Every time you take a turn now you have to watch some bull crap ads and some of those will not clear until they open a web page or the App Store. When I first started playing I bought the ad free version. That apparently is no longer a thing. I like playing on my skill and do not use the “advantages” because what’s the point if your not being honest? I’ve been playing without any of that and the main thing I cannot take is the adds that constantly after every turn make you wait to play and sometimes won’t clear till you close the app and reopen it. If that’s not enough the header at the top of the game constantly pelts you with adds as well. I hate that I cannot play this game honestly and know that others are as well. I expect my opponents are using the advantages but I mostly win unless they are using one of the cheats other than the ones tied into the game. Obviously the developers are money hungry and seems that’s all they care about cause you can spend money to get the advantages and all that. It would be great if they got rid of all that crap and made a straight up game no strings attached, play by your skill not your cheats. Sorry for the rant but there are plenty others like me I know that just enjoy playing without being bombarded with ads and opponents that may or may not be cheating. Guess I go back to my wordjong and scrabble, too many frustrations with what this game has become..Version: 19.50.1
✓ Maybe it could be good again..The game itself is great. Inviting friends from your contacts list (rather than Facebook) is not easy and the ads are terrible. I don’t mind having to watch a short ad every now and then in order to play a free game but when the still adverts completely cover up your game score during the game, then that really detracts from the game itself. I remember this game being so much better in a past life..Version: 17.70.1
✓ This used to be a good game……but it has been ruined by becoming predominately an advertising site. I played the ads free version for years until they found a way to feature enough ads that drove me to ditch and reload the app so many times that I eventually found I was locked out and my only way to rejoin was to create a new sign in and be asked for huge monthly payments in order to be ad free. Bye bye WWF. I will miss the friends I made over the years..Version: 18.50.4
✓ Money hungry appI’ve really enjoyed this app until recently. I prefer to play solo because I notice how some people you play use the cheats and it doesn’t seem fair. I prefer not to and that’s my choice just like they have their choice. So I usually play solo games. In the last month the solo challenges have changed. It used to give me at least one free replay a day because it was a free game every six hours. That was their goodwill allowing it. Not anymore. I can watch a video for 15 tokens when it takes 30 to play a game and it’s only 4 per day. So I can play two games a day now. It’s really unfair and I’m not willing to pay for more tokens. It’s clear why they did this. People don’t mind waiting and they said no way. Plus to win the challenge they added about 5 more rounds of six games each so I have to beat 32 rounds. 32 rounds plus 30 tokens each I’m sorry no way am I playing. Really unfortunate when they change things so drastically. It was fun but I’ll find another game I suppose..Version: 17.60.4
✓ AnnoyedHave played this game for years and am thoroughly fed up with the changes that keep coming through. Latest frustration is moving the play and next game button from where it’s always been to the middle. I am sick of clearing my words by mistake. I tried staying with the classic app but it is really not the classic game I love as it is a complete clone of the new apps. I’m fast getting to the point of stopping playing this game..Version: 14.53.1
✓ Added ‘play features’ ruining gameI have really enjoyed playing the (paid version) classic words with friends for years. However, you have added a bunch of extraneous junk to it, slowing the games down with pop up garbage, magic boxes or what ever all those treasure chest things are....it’s all very annoying! It all slows the play of the game. If those added ‘play’ features were on the game previously, I would not have bought it. I have written to you via email asking how i can remove them. I never received a response. Please get rid of all that extra stuff...it’s ruining your otherwise great game, at the very least, allow users to opt out of them! UPDATE: nothing has changed. Developers don’t care about the feedback. They even added more junk to it. I have been playing this game since 2011. I am no longer going to play. It’s still slow & jammed with play features I can’t get rid of. Not what I purchased. Junk game. If you are looking for a good word game, similar to scrabble...keep looking..Version: 12.70.9
✓ Game good : software IrritatingThe game is great, but the way the software itself keeps wanting me to log in and then tells me it is already associated with another device that I don't even have is irritating. I then opted for the ad free paid version, downloaded it, yet it continued to give advert delays after each move and generated even more log on confusion. I can now no longer play it without logging into Facebook. What the ....! Too annoying and no help centre to call about it. Thinking of deleting it now. Voting with my feet..Version: 4.09
✓ A dying game appWords with Friends used to be a lot of fun to play. Not anymore. Clearly the game architecture is aging and breaking down. The mandatory adverts after almost every single turn make it neither fast nor fun. I can play a turn in a few seconds but then have to wait a half minute before the next one. Additionally, the X button to depart from the advert page seems to have been made deliberately tiny and insensitive, especially for the never-ending badgering for Candy Crush, the kind of mindless pastime that I have NEVER been intrigued by over the six or so years that I played Words. And now the game is freezing,or locking up, requiring that I reboot my whole system in order to get past the stagnation. There are other signs that the game platform is decaying - solo challenges freeze up, play stops in mid-round, the computer opponent in the weekly challenges fails to play at all after the first turn, and so forth. I have reluctantly given up on the game entirely, and tossed those six years of game progress in the hopper. Pity. It didn’t have to be this way. The fact that there is no way to complain about game failures to the designers is the last nail in the coffin. I can only register my dissatisfaction with the state of affairs by writing this review..Version: 16.21.2
✓ Great game ruined by trash!I love this game and enjoy playing it, but the experience has been ruined for me. SERIOUSLY, EVRY MOVE YOU MAKE will bring up yet another ad making the whole experience frustrating and a waste of time. The developers need to realise NO-ONE watches these ads anyway. While I get they are necessary to a degree, the frequency is ridiculous. The clincher for me was having to sit thru a minute of offensive language during an ad - NO-ONE NEEDS TO SEE OR HEAR THAT TRASH just to get a few coins! PARENTS BEWARE if you don’t want your kids to see this stuff. Disappointing!.Version: 14.70.2
✓ PayPal Ad doesn’t give rewardsI used to play this game years ago, and recently got back into playing. So much has changed since then, some good changes and some bad. I enjoy some of the new features like “word strength,” but lately when I try to activate it the PayPal ad plays, but then doesn’t activate the word strength. This also happens when I try to watch an ad to get coins in the store. It’s very frustrating. I like the solo plays, but recently actually paid $9.99 to go ad free for 30 days because the ads that popped up between turns were so obnoxious! I don’t like that there isn’t an option to go ad free indefinitely. I understand that Zynga needs ads to keep the game free, but with so many people saying that they hate them, and saying that they are not playing anymore because of them, why aren’t they listening?.Version: 17.60.4
✓ SusanneTI have played this game for years and basically enjoyed it, but recently in the last week or so it has become an annoying game. Twice now I have been invited to play and had to make sure I wasn't sitting on a bar stool. They strike up a conversation with come-on lines and flattery. They ask how I'm doing, then comes all the personal questions. This morning was the last straw, the so-called player completely disappeared from the game after I bombarded them with a whole list of personal questions that I feel are nothing but bs. I even asked them if they were a Russian troll. I checked all the active games and completed games I've played and the player who said he was Charles Bernard was nowhere to be found. I think you need to find out what is going on. I'm beginning to think the game is now a vehicle for hackers. I may not be coming back to it once my active games are completed. I don't need this grief..Version: 10.63.1
✓ Gone down the tubeI have been playing this game for about 10 years now and have seen it get crappier and crappier over the years. Everything is about the company trying to get you to spend money. And they are annoyingly persistent. I used to win many more games when the playing board was more equal. But I now know that one’s chances of winning decline significantly if one does not take advantage of the many options available for purchase. Dislikes: -Unlimited opportunities to place a word on the board. Why is there not a reasonable limit? Where is the challenge in spending time for endless possibilities and then coming up with crazy words that most players have never heard of before? -The ridiculous “Do you want to send a sticker?” with your move? What are we? Two year olds? I have only seen one sticker sent to me since this popup started. -The value of one’s earned points has declined to about half since I began playing. -The points earned has also significantly decreased. I am guessing that there is some sort of company algorithm that shows the players that aren’t spending more money and are thus being penalized with lower rewards in hopes of getting them to do so. -And talk about Rewards! Since when is an opportunity to buy the Premium version a “reward”? I play the game anyway just to challenge my mind, but I do so knowing that my chances of winning decline as the game gets older and the company gets more greedy..Version: 16.91.2
✓ TerribleToo many ads. I’ll pay for the game. Will not play anymore until there is an option to turn ads off.Version: 18.01.3
✓ 300% price hike for extra coins.For many many months the ‘price’ for extra swaps has been 20 coins for 1 swap, 60 coins for 3 swaps and 100 coins for 5 swaps. Today I noticed the ‘price’ for 3 swaps has risen to 300 coins. That’s daylight robbery. How can you justify a 300% rise. Are you not making enough money from all the REALLY REALLY annoying and intrusive ads you have so kindly slapped in the game after EVERY move. And the new layout is so not user friendly. Buttons too close together the intrusive options to add stickers and emojis. This used to be a really user friendly, enjoyable game. Obviously, the developers are now more into making (for that read stealing) money than providing entertainment for their users. Poor Poor show..Version: 15.70.3
✓ Why does it keep crashing??I have played words for many years, it is a great game which also helps me keep in touch with family abroad. I had the older version which started to jerk and crash, so I downloaded the new version, this also now keeps crashing and I have to restart my iPad to get it to run again, what is going on? Sadly becoming disillusioned with a game I have loved for years..Version: 16.71.1
✓ How do I choose not to have coloured tiles and other garbage?I can’t stand coloured tiles, solo games, boxes etc but the screen only offers “great” with no “x” to say “no thank you”. I had to quit..Version: 12.11.1
✓ Discrepancies.....There are two things that I find truly frustrating. The first is that there are special “Words with Friends Words” that offer absolutely no definition, and don’t exist if you look them up anywhere else. Often times these words consist of obscure letters that people are desperately trying to put together and somehow it makes a “word” that’s acceptable to the game and often gives great points, because the letters are automatically worth more, being more difficult to use. How is this considered fair and not cheating? The second is that I may have a few letters left that I can use to score more points, but all of a sudden the game ends and somehow I lose, regardless of being ahead literally the entire game? If I have tiles to play that can make words and score more points, how does the game just end? If allowed to play the remaining tiles I would easily win. Again, how is this considered fair and not cheating? This is extremely frustrating and doesn’t motivate me to play..Version: 13.05.1
✓ Needs workThis particular Words with Friends app needs to repair some software issues. Let me point out the obvious first. There is always an ad that pops up after every word submission, but no payment option to remove ads. As for the software side, the ads appear to be rushed when it was installed to the program. It never streams well, and half the time the ad does not auto adjust to your screen size. So when the short ad is complete, you can’t close it out. My app has crashed multiple times during an ad, and during gameplay. If it doesn’t crash, my screen will freeze. On average, I play around 1-2 hours per day. During those times, I would have to shut the app down to reset it. And this happens averagely 3 times within 2 hours. Just for the record, my iPhone has a 128gb memory, and nearly half of that is available. And all updates are current. So if you’re reading this, there are plenty of other apps to choose from..Version: 11.01.3
✓ Unnecessary changesI’ve been playing for quite some time now and generally enjoy it, but it seems to have gone the way of most other online games in pushing you into buying ‘power-ups’. I’ve never done this, but the ‘prizes’ for winning challenges used to give you lots of them. Once they got people using them, they have been gradually reducing the ‘rewards’. I have no interest in the stupid tile colours or badges, either. Lightning round is quite good though. The latest re- jig of the format is rubbish; I can’t rotate the screen any more, nor can I find my statistics. The black screen issue that others have mentioned is very, very irritating. Advice to women re the ‘chat’ problem- I changed my profile picture and user name to give no clue as to gender. Haven’t had an inappropriate chat message since..Version: 13.51.1
✓ WHAT HAPPENED⁉️I have played this for years and love it, but a few weeks ago, I have no idea what happened, but all of my friends that I play with disappeared, my profile name and picture changed, (and I did not change it) and I could get nothing back!! I even tried to look up my friends and get them back, I even tried through Facebook, they even tried sending me a new friend request to no avail, and it’s a total mystery what happened! I tried to contact Words with no response! I left an email address, but no response. I tried deleting the app and starting fresh and nothing worked. I did get invites from “people” that I didn’t know, but I think they were fakes or robots or something since every time I played, even at 3AM, “everyone” immediately played a word back and I just don’t believe that if they were real people, every single one of them would be immediately responding with their word at 3AM (most people aren’t up at 3AM). Even when it’s not 3AM, every single time I played a word, there was an immediate response, which just does not happen. So how could this have happened and how can it be resolved? Is there really any customer service out there to help with this? This is not the first time I’ve tried to get an answer about something on this app with absolutely no response..Version: 18.80.1
✓ Current 64 bit version is a huge step BACKWARDSHave been using wwf AD FREE 32 bit version for years which was a very good app. Current app doesn’t automatically offer ad free version for those who have already paid for it. In fact so far it doesn’t offer ad free version at all. It seems they just want to add mountains confusing ads and offers on screen which which the only result is that users move on to other apps. As a result of so much junk on-screen the app is too slow. You had a great 32 bit app , please respect those who have already paid for your add free service and offer free upgrades to ad free or at least offer a new ad free upgrade for the 64 bit version..Version: 11.01.3
✓ Ads, scammers, and so much going on!Why is it that the developers have only addressed bug fixes and technical issues that other reviews have mentioned... but have not addressed the issue with the creepy men/scammers that start a game with you, and a few turns in start messaging you asking personal questions and to chat in another messaging app!? This is incredibly frustrating! The moment I tell them “No, and that I’m simply just trying to play a game,” they stop playing and I’m stuck waiting 10+ days for the game to resign itself. This takes up a valuable spot where I could be playing someone that actually wants to play. I recently muted one guy and was still able to see his messages anyways! THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED! And by fixed, I mean GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE! Not only are the scammers and creepy men an issue, but the amount of ads and pop ups are ridiculous! Honestly there’s so much going on within the app, so much clutter, and has all these dumb daily goals and mini challenges that it’s hard to navigate the app. I can care less for any of that stuff, I just want to play the game against friends or others. Get rid of this junk! I’m going to need to find another app to play on if this doesn’t change soon!.Version: 16.12.1
✓ Words with FriendsScammers‼️ Too many scammers. All from Delta State Nigeria. They ask personal questions, play 2-letter words, claim to be Americans working in a remote area, then beg to go to Hangout or WhatsApp.l within 5 minutes of chatting! And boy do they BEG! Using every excuse in the book to make you move. It’s important for them to get you off the WWF app to an app that’s private and encrypted end to end....so that they can romance scam you! Don’t fall for it ladies (and gents). They do not love you! It’s not a handsome white American guy you’re chatting to. It’s a young Nigerian boy who’s chatting to dozens like you! REPORT THEM to WWF..Version: 15.70.3
✓ “WORDS”Good Game but annoying glitches ruin it. Friends who are listed as members of your list and Facebook list disappear suddenly and an erroneous message stating that they don’t exist is the best that Zynga can do. Mystery Boxes which are accrued by regular and frequent players suddenly are not claimable. Already about 5 players in my group have quit; another 7 are losing patience and will follow suit if a quick fix fails to materialise post haste. In defence of the game it is fair to say that it is an enjoyable, educational activity which I look forward to at the end of a long day at the coal face. However, I feel the boat rocking; maybe a sinking feeling..Version: 12.50.1
✓ Words HDI bought this HD version some time ago and now I can’t upgrade it to work on iOS 11. I’d post the screen error message but thIS doesn’t seem to have the ability to do this. I have asked before how to upgrade this PURCHASED version but grrr got no response from developer. I have to rate.... so one star in protest.Version: 10.63.1
✓ So much ads…Every time you did a move, you have an ad…. Still playing, but not as much….Version: 18.80.1
✓ All the enhancements stink!I have played words with friends for years. They have added a bunch of stuff that I don’t care a toot about. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve accidentally hit “play word” when I didn’t want to play the word. They used to have a failsafe “do you want to play that word”? They don’t have that anymore. They keep pushing me into other games. It used to be that when you saw “next game” and tapped it, you’d go to another game you were playing. Now it doesn’t mean you have another game to play, it can mean that they’ve paired you up with a stranger or a computer and it starts a game that you have to resign to get it off your screen. They have added badges or some sort of perk that you have to watch for no reason because you played some specific letters—like you play letters for them? I play letters for points and to win the game. Not because they want me to play all the letters in “tulip” or some other word they choose. I have been thinking about quitting altogether because of gobs of stuff I don’t want..Version: 12.25.3
✓ My thoughts of WordI thoroughly enjoy playing Words With Friends but it annoys the daylight out of me that I can’t skip many of the video ads: I just don’t have the data in my phone plan to be watching adds which are of NO INTEREST TO ME. So, I have to close the app and re-open it! Further, the number of legit words which are not permitted is an irritant but the number of “acceptable word(s) with NO DEFINITION is ridiculous! Either a word has a meaning, or, it is not a word!!!!! Thank you for deleting all you non words, IMMEDIATELY!.Version: 10.63.1
✓ Get rid of all the junkI agree whole heartedly with Yellowbugnana. However I am not rating the ap anything more than a one star because I don’t think choosing no stars is an option. All I want to do is play scrabble with my friends. I can’t stand all the junk running in the background and the waste of time it creates in between moves. I don’t want treasure boxes. I don’t want to play with random virtual opponents. I don’t want congratulations. I don’t want to have Zynga-imposed goals. Yuck. I don’t want to buy the option to swap without passing or any other cheats. I wrote to Zynga, without any response, obv, suggesting offering players the choice to play with or without all the sparkles, treasure boxes and other mindless clutter, the option, as it were, to just play the straight game of scrabble. I too, paid for the ad free version, which I agree, with another reviewer, because the ads were so, so, aggressive. I’m not judging those who like treasure boxes and mindless clutter and sparkles. I just want the option to play just plain scrabble with my friends who want the same. There I’ve said it..Version: 14.71.2
✓ Too many advertisements.The constant advertisements are SO ANNOYING. They pop up between each turn and it’s driving me crazy. I am seriously considering deleting this game and finding a new one. This game is NOT worth the hassle..Version: 18.60.9
✓ Latest Update Has Spoiled it.Sadly the latest update has rather spoiled this app. For a start the play button is too close to your play tiles and in the centre so it is now far too easy to inadvertently hit the play button when you are still moving tiles to create the word. So if you are for example putting down admit and you have ad and go to put on the m and touch the play button you score much less and look stupid. Move the play button to the side. Also on the various events they don’t always use the Words With Friends dictionary. The button showing where you can play shows there is a 6 letter word but the dictionary shows only 4 or 5 letter words. OK I don’t use those hints much, but all games should use your own dictionary. This was a really good App, appreciate you need to have advertising but making stupid changes will probably lessen your income not raise it..Version: 14.70.2
✓ Was great, now a NIGHTMARE and a FARCE❗️Well Zynga, you obviously dont give a rats whatsit for your loyal players. I communicated the same complaints that so many are expressing in their reviews to you through the app previously, but is it not clear to you that you are not providing a decent game experience for many, probably the majority? You can only push people so far, and I would say you have now gone to the limit with your singing and dancing nonsense. It gets sillier and sillier, and more and more boring, frustrating and clunkier to use, the more you force this inanity on folks. Sure there will be some who like all this charade of a scrabble game, great, bully for them, but give people a choice please. You are becoming more like Big Brother everyday and I detest being forced to engage with an AI who increasingly grows bloated and insatiable by the day lording/enforcing its presence over this game. Learn or Burn Zynga❗️🤯.Version: 12.11.1
✓ Testing my patienceCan’t play a word without getting subjected to an inappropriate advert lasting 30 seconds. Latest trick is to turn the screen blank. The only way I can continue playing is to turn the phone on and off. Could be so good. Obviously aimed at eight year old kids with the latest high spec phone. Sick to death of it now. Trying to escape from an ad that you don’t want to see takes more patience than I have got.. A classic game ruined. Hope you are happy that you have destroyed what was once good. Yes, Apple Music advert is a real pain in the proverbial. Almost quicker to turn the phone on and off. It’s not going to make me want to buy it anymore!.Version: 18.80.1
✓ Momma Bear 101Can’t believe you made changes again and took away all the points I had stored for searching for words and swapping letters. It was so much better in the original game. Please change it back. . Changes like these sure don’t encourage a player to stay with the game..Version: 18.30.1
✓ Stop False Ads!!Fun game and … Seriously, you need to do something about the gummy ad. It is filled with lies, was never endorsed by the celebrities profiled, there’s no time magazine article. Please be more selective about the ads that you show! This one in particular is misleading and makes 100% false claims..Version: 19.00.1
✓ Highly Annoying AdsAfter every move you must watch an ad. There is no paid option to avoid this. After watching the most common ad my new iPhone freezes and I must reboot. I couldn’t find a way to report thus bug. Fun game - really poor implementation..Version: 18.01.3
✓ Going downhillI love this game, and paid for the ad free version, but there are so many distractions on the sidebar, colored tiles, rewards etc. that i will be looking for a new game unless you give us a way to turn off all these extras.Version: 12.00.2
✓ Great game, terrible notificationsHave been playing this game for years and love it but recently updated and now the app feels the need to use the notification system to tell me about things in the store to buy, thus not allowing me to clear the notifications by playing all my games. The little number remains and I cannot even find whatever stupid thing it is in the store to view it and clear the number. Please get rid of this!!!!!!.Version: 11.62.1
✓ Not about Words anymoreLike many games these days, words with friends has become all about advertising and in app purchases. It also has no customer support, not even a way to access one. So if you win a game against the app itself, and the app freezes and refuses to give you credit, there is no one to contact and no way to claim your win. That has happened to me at least once a week for the past several weeks. Another annoyance are the many words that the app claims are legitimate just because they show up in a dictionary, but are in fact clearly defined as abbreviations or proper names or other terms not acceptable in Scrabble. Recently the game has forced players to watch ads just to access ‘free’ games, without notifying you that was about to happen. I am hoping for an alternative to this game to show up in the App Store soon..Version: 16.41.3
✓ Too laggyWas a good game, but the endless gamifying challenges, rewards and promotions are wearing me down.Version: 17.70.1
✓ Needs some improvementsWould like to buy swap tokens sooner so more coins would be good without having to pay for them. The additional games can be fun while your waiting on someone playing their turn, but the Rivals game needs a tweak. It has become apparent that, if l play words that score well, my opponent just has to not play their turn and I’m stuck there. I either have to resign and get nothing, or I wait and drain my battery as they may have logged out. This has happened several times. I call it cheating. Surely it could be amended such that, if someone has skipped a couple of turns then it should be assumed that they are no longer playing and therefore have lost; leaving the player who has played to win the game outright without penalty. Surely I’m not the only one experiencing playing with bad losers?.Version: 17.50.1
✓ Too many ads & inconsistenciesThe number of ads takes away from the enjoyment of the game. When playing multiple games at once, an ad every move has you spending more time and data watching the same ads over and over than you do playing. $15 to remove ads for a short time is not affordable, especially now during COVID-19 when many have lost their jobs. Secondly, the game is inconsistent in the allocation of letters. All vowels, all constenants or all the most challenging z,x, q (no u) all at once. It’s ridiculous. You end up being beaten by hundreds of points which in turn makes it even worse for the next game. After 2-weeks of playing I’m almost ready to quit..Version: 14.42.5
✓ Beware of scammersI’ve been playing since July this year. Suddenly starting to get men requesting to chat. I’m a friendly person and of an age where people used to have pen pals so thought it would be interesting to have chats with people from other countries. The language was unusual. One saying my name was magnificent, who says that. Very quickly escalating to requests to continue on hangouts a google platform favoured by scammers. WWF should have better filters in place..Version: 15.00.6
✓ Present WWWF vs PastRecently there has been an approach on WWF which I,and my oops find distasteful & spoils the game which we have enjoyed for many years. You have started to constantly try to “force” new opponents on us, by arbitrarily putting them in a players position, or in some other way, that we are supposed to make the “choice” of playing with them. PLEASE NOTE…..if I want a new opponent, I will invite them on myself. I do not need, or want you to stick one into my screen for god knows what reason you have. It takes time to get rid of them and start playing with my friends. Stop it!! Please!, Also, stop trying to sell me points or stickers or whatever. I am playing WWF, not shopping. Also, for some reason my profile picture is sideways in the frame. I would appreciate it if someone on your team could turn me right side up. I have written in about this before, but nothing happened. I don’t mind that much being stuck sideways, but it does seem rather useless to get those pretty frames under the circumstances. I am very old, probably play more WWF than I should…and thus get a bit fussed about small issues like these. But I might be less ‘fussed’ if I was right side up in the picture was right side up . Thank you for reading all of this, sincerely, Mrs.M.Version: 18.60.9
✓ Bad dictionaryWhy is “linctus” not an acceptable word???? 😡 Zynga, your dictionary is the worst in the modern world. Lift your game! And now a word like “voetsak” beats me! This word is not in the English language. Yet “favourite” a common word in English is not acceptable. Who is in charge of your dictionary? Dec 2022 When will Words recognise that “vapes” and “vapers” and “vaped” are now all common words… not just “vape”. March 2023: why are there so many proper nouns permitted this game? So many inconsistencies and it would be so easy for you to make it a great game..Version: 19.31.3
✓ Not workingHad to uninstall as wasn't loading, re installed and now won't log in thru FB.Version: 14.70.2
✓ Computer games use words not in any dictionary!!I am competing against computer generated players to advance and win things. At the Easy level, They are using words like Qibla and smetana...qibla is not in dictionary. Ridiculous!!.Version: 14.20.3
✓ AdsI love this game and play it every evening, but come on, give us a break, 30 second ads between EVERY game, I can just about handle 5 sec. adverts, so I now only play with one person, then double tap to delete game as quicker to do that and reset than watch an advert I’m not in the least interested in. Why can’t we pay for no adverts like we used to be able to? I might then play the game with others.Version: 13.05.1
✓ AnnoyingI played wwf years ago and wad great. Downloaded it recently to try again and found it’s now a mess with unnecessary distractions from challenges, rewards etc. Maybe some like that, but could have the option to disable. I also keep getting match of the day requests every single day, despite I disabled it from settings. Not to mention the annoying, noisy and repetitive ads, but I definitely wouldn’t pay for ad free version when the app is so annoying in itself. I’ll look for another scrabble app without all the annoying features, where I can just play with my friends..Version: 14.31.1
✓ Great app...butWould make a great app amazing if they sorted out their dictionary, so many basic words not allowed which can get pretty frustrating. Due to the higher level of strategy required I would take this game over Scrabble - if only it had a better dictionary!.Version: 4.10.1
✓ Adverts cause problemsI love this game, apart from the rubbish scores for 7 letter words! To use all your tiles is an achievement but the scores are rubbish, I’ve had higher scores from putting 2 or 3 letters down in some cases. Also almost every time an advert comes on my screen goes back and I have to shut the app down and reopen it which is a pain, that’s the reason for the 3 stars..Version: 17.13.1
✓ I’ll no longer be playing this game.When I got my new iPad I down loaded the new version because I couldn’t transfer the older one. It gave me no access to my old games and after multiple attempts get help to figure out how to do so without any response, I gave up and went back to my old iPad. Today an alert popped up stating that I can no longer continue playing without upgrading to a new edition. I’ve been playing this game for several years and I’m frustrated that I have no opportunity to contact people with whom our games have been abandoned. Furthermore, as others have noted, the newer versions have constant interruptions with meaningless bonus, awards etc. I love the game and the vehicle it’s been for staying connected with older family and friends....those most socially isolated. It’s time to look for other, more reliable options. Another example of the issues with the software: It asks for a nickname, I’ve been trying to give mine which I’ve had for years. It won’t accept it because it’s “already Taken”. Of course it is, it’s mine. Now I need to come up with a new one to post this😬.Version: 17.70.1
✓ Too many Illegal commercials🥹🤓😅There are too many commercials that lock you in and do not end. There is no escape, regardless of how long the commercial is. So the player like me has no choice but to get out of the program and re-log. It is a waste of time, and I sure do not want to buy anything advertised by commercials that kidnap your iPad with no escape ! 🥹😅😂.Version: 18.60.9
✓ Ads designed with poor close buttonsFinding it increasingly frustrating to use this app. The game is enjoyable and ads are understandable. What’s infuriating is the purposeful design of the close button on ads - it moves after a few seconds increasing the chance that you click on the ad instead of the close function. It’s frustrating to wait the minimum time for an ad to play, then hit the close button, only to have it move and launch you into the App Store to purchase whatever is being advertised, then click back to the app and have the process repeated after every submitted move..Version: 16.71.1
✓ Playing solo gameWhen you play solo game, when you play hard players the 7 tiles you get are either all vowels or all consonants. Pretty hard to play when the computer tiles are made to do 6 and 7 letter words. Pretty disappointing..Version: 18.30.1
✓ This app needs workI’d enjoy playing the game more if you fixed the problems. Again today, I was playing the short form rivals game and had to resign simply because it was the rival’s turn and the game froze right there. This happens often enough to be frustrating. If I hadn’t purchased the app a few years ago, I’d delete it permanently. Also, it’s okay to recommend an opponent, but at least make it someone who’s still playing..Version: 16.61.2
✓ Ruined with AdsThis “was” a simple and engaging game to play with friends. However, the developers decided to force players to watch ads (and right now, FarmVille is the only ad they have) after EVERY move🤯. It is a case study in greed and desperation. They offer a $10/month way out of ads, but at a cost of $120/year, which is what that equates to, it is obscene. I would have been happy to spend a flat $10 to remove ads forever, or even for a year, but never $10/month. I wonder if FarmVille knows that their ad is being used so voluminously, that instead of gaining new players, people are moreover completely turned off by it. Perhaps, Words with Friends doesn’t understand economics. Perhaps, they just want people to stop playing their games entirely. Perhaps, they loathe FarmVille. At any rate, a work around for the ads is to simply swipe up and close the game, then restart. 3-5 second inconvenience as opposed to 15-30 seconds of watching little cartoon farm animals annoy real people to fiddle with them..Version: 16.91.2
✓ What’s the point?Maxed out on coins at 1500, can’t spend them on power-ups until I run out. No point in earning anymore coins by playing solo, viewing videos or playing add-on games. What is the point of your changes? Only worth playing friends now so only open the app when friends have played. Whoever suggested this change has reduced the possibility of cross promotion of apps and user satisfaction with this app. Should be fired!.Version: 17.50.1
✓ LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE!!!SERIOUSLY, do you HAVE to RUIN EVERYTHING??? I DON’T want EDGAR ALLEN POE’S MUG HANGING AMONG THOSE whose turn it is to play!!! HE’S HAD HIS CHANCE, he should have played the game when he had the chance! We DO NOT; REPEAT, DO NOT WANT DECORATIONS, COLORS CHANGED, GAME MANIPULATED IN REGARD TO COLORS, FLOWERS, DECEASED ADULTS, or ANY FURTHER CHANGES MADE TO THE GAME THAT ATTRACTED US IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! You all are now so empty-headed from trying to entertain, that you are throwing the dregs of your brains SO FAR DOWN THE LINE THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE COME TO DESPISE your stupid, not funny(not even half-funny) desperation to out-do the OTHER IDIOTS TRYING TO OUTDO YOU!!! S-T-O-P!!! If you’re getting money for all these dumb decorated “CHRISTMAS/HALLOWEEN/EASTER GAMES, USE YOUR HEADS AND go get a job that you can really get into, because you’ve ruined more games than I care to count!!! You are about to lose players because you are SO EMPTY HEADED!!!” Signed, So worn out, so disgusted, I honestly think my brain is going to explode, and I HOPE Y’ALL HAVE USED ALL THE ghoulish, infantile accoutrements that reside in your tiny brains!.Version: 15.00.6
✓ All the extras are getting ridiculous.I have the paid version, and when I find time to play a word with a friend or 2 it seems with all the crazy bonuses and rewards I have to wait 30 seconds just to let all the nonsense finish before I can move on to he next game. I really wish there was a way to turn it all off. I just want to literally play words with friends like when they first brought out the game. Please make a way to opt out of all the nonsense, including the constant urging to play all the computer challengers. It’s time to look for something way less annoying. Such a shame the take a brilliant product and ruin it like this..Version: 13.66.1
✓ GreedyWhat a bunch of greedy developers. They don’t allow you to buy the ad-free version. They only let you pay for 30 days without ads. The adverts that show, trick you into clicking the X which infact move around so you end up clicking the ad instead and making them extra money. My phone is always on silent but the adverts ignore my settings and just blasts out the sound randomly. Then they also have bot players that trick you into thinking your good and tempt you into playing another game thus making them extra cash again. The game itself is good but they need to sort out their ethics..Version: 13.51.1
✓ Game with potentialReally fun game. My only complaint is that after every turn my opponent makes the game freezes and I need to restart my phone.Version: 18.01.3
✓ Getting slowerI have played this game for years but it is now so frustrating. It takes forever to load, if you go off to look at another app it takes ages to reload each time. Games keep freezing and it takes ages to move from one game to another. I have a 3 month old iPhone 7 so I’m fairly sure it’s not my phone that is the problem. I have the paid version as well so no ads. Play this daily on my commute but getting really annoyed with its slowness now. Please fix this as I really love this game..Version: 10.86.1
✓ Questionable adverts pepper this pale Scrabble cloneAn ardent fan of Scrabble, until the most recent incarnation, 'Scrabble Go!' totally ruined the game experience, I reluctantly turned to this app. Its bizarre tile complement (only 1 U in total) and a board layout with bonus squares in positions to afford ridiculously high scoring words (my highest is 168 points) makes for a very uneven play - players' scores can diverge, at a single turn, so much as to make continued play pointless? Add to this, the misleading adverts showing real puppies/kittens, but claiming they are automaton toys for sale?.Version: 15.00.6
✓ The game cheatsWhen playing against the computer the game cheats for example sylave is not a word and yet it was allowed 😡.Version: 12.70.9
✓ Tick tickOf course l play this game. Often very frustrated with word limits. Today it’s that tick is ok and tick is not. How daft is that when real clocks always go tick tock, tick tock!.Version: 16.71.1
✓ Great Game…Horrible company. Non-Stop ads and popupsLove this version of scrabble-like games. Thats the ONLY good thing I can say. If it was just the game with banner ads…i would give it five stars but NO… they ruin it with non stop full screen full SOUND ads…oh yes…dont think you can sneak and play a word at work and expect that just because you have turned off sound in the game that this applies to ads..oh no no…FULL SOUND blasts over your device!! Notifications…there is a setting in the game to only have notifications about your game…this is a straight up lie. I get pop up notifications about “word of the day” and others that I have ZERO interest in….and its every day multiple times a day. Ad tracking…most apps ask, the first time you open them, if you want the app to track you for targeted ads…..however if you opt out with THIS app…WWF asks you over and over and over again. Truly is a horrible experience. I wish there was a suitable alternative. And when there is…outta here!!.Version: 17.42.1
✓ Advertisement Overdose to the Point if NauseaThis use to be great but the constant bombardment of obsessive ads has evolved to disrupting games. Either give a FAIR subscription option for ad free or play a moderate variety of ads intermittently. The ads are so frequent that I don’t even want to play words anymore.Version: 13.66.1
✓ They still refuse to fix itIn addition to the increasingly time-consuming pointless “challenges” that I never accepted, I don’t care about, and that don’t seem to mean anything, the developers still haven’t fixed some things that they broke a over a year ago in one of their stupid updates when they added more clutter and junk. One of the more annoying ones is that the red indicator on the app icon of how many games are awaiting your move no longer updates in a timely manner. So maybe there are games waiting for you but you don’t know because there’s no indicator. Or maybe it says there’ s 10 games waiting, but when you open the game there aren’t any, and only then the indicator updates. Real useful. Another thing they broke at the same time is the Next Game arrow. For any given game you have going, it randomly might be available, or you might have to go back to the list of I played games to choose the next one. When they broke these features that used to work properly, I thought, “oh well, they’ll get around to fixing them eventually.” But, apparently it’s more important to use developer resources to add to the never ending senseless peripheral challenge stuff that only gets in the way, slows the game down, and annoys us. Much more important for some reason. Oh, and this stuff goes for all versions, “Classic,” WWF 2” etc., which all basically seem to be the same. I don’t know why they insist on multiple versions when there’s really only one game..Version: 13.51.1
✓ Not impressedGame is great without the ads popping up every five seconds (but I can understand it so I overlook it). The UI has always been, in my opinion, a bit of a mess. I had to learn where everything was and it just feels like it gets very cluttered quickly with all the other extras around the pages. Fine, whatever I can look past that. What I DO have a problem with is their reporting system. I am forever recovering unsolicited, explicit messages from men twice my age and (I assume) because I am logged in through Facebook, I cannot report any of this. I can't find anything online about how to contact Zynga directly so I'm stuck with this until further notice. If you're a parent with young kids who play this game I would be monitoring it INCREDIBLY carefully because these people just seem to slip through the cracks unpunished..Version: 8.62.1
✓ AbominationAn abomination of a UI. Annoying and long interruptions by adverts. More stats than anyone would want to know! Play screen scaled down by all the rubbish on screen. Meaningless icons. Very hard to gauge how you arrived at or get back to a particular screen. There has got to be better versions of this game!!!.Version: 17.70.1
✓ Game SLOW to load, shuts down and freezesReally getting sick of this. Games are supposed to get better, not worse. So slow and freezes mid play. Then will randomly shut down. I’m playing on an iPhone 11pro, so it’s not my phone and other games play just fine. All chat history gone pre a week ago too. Sometimes it is not relaxing to play as it is SO frustrating just waiting for it to OPEN Fix it please. It has been months like this..Version: 15.51.3
✓ Good killed by adsThe app is very good, and works well, but ads can stop you p,aging. Sometimes you just get a blank screen that won’t go away, because an ad failed to load. You have to give up and come back later. The worst is the ad that appears as a pop-up stripe across your letters. You can’t get rid of it, you can’t move it out of the way, and you can’t play. Again, you have to either give up, or come here and complain. Such a shame..Version: 19.21.2
✓ Horrific updateI've been playing words with friends for a long time, and have been an avid fan of it ever since. Unfortunately it has become infuriating to play recently because of the extremely high number of ads that have been added to it, some of which force me to leave the app before I can continue playing my game. I appreciate that these ads probably help fund the game and further development of other games by the same company but this is just ridiculous. It is turning people away from this game..Version: 6.31
✓ Moves fail to registerI am frequently waiting for my partner to move on our 3 or 4 games for many hours. The last, and worst time delay, was 2 days, to eventually find they made their moves straight after I did, but the moves did not show up on either of my devices. Sometimes shutting the app down and reopening it will reveal their moves, but not always. This would seem to me to be a major bug that needs urgent attention, but update after update has not addressed this..Version: 10.37.1
✓ BORED MUCH!Whilst this app can be quite addictive, it's also equally frustrating. I am currently playing 17 games in total because opponents are far too slow to respond & or it may take several days to complete ONE game. If only there an added feature to play against the cpu..Version: 4.02
✓ Words with FriendsI am so sad to see this once wonderful game over taken with ads. And some of them you just cannot get out of. I am seriously thinking of erasing this..Version: 17.91.2
✓ Lots of ErrorsAlthough the game is good and fun when it works, it constantly errors. As in, you don’t always get your prizes when you win and in the challenges, especially the Rivals, it just freezes, forcing you to resign and get no reward for playing. Other times between games the screen will go black (where it usually plays an ad) and will just have a banner ad there, with no way to exit it. The only way to return to the Home Screen of the games is to reset your phone. It’s a lot of work and frustrating!!!.Version: 16.41.3
✓ Ads!Of course ADs are a necessary evil. However EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A MOVE there’s an ad? Often the same game THAT YOUVE ALREADY DOWNLOADED!!! Is excessive. Come on. An ad everytime?! Ridiculous. I remember paying to rid myself of these ads years ago. But here they are. With a vengeance. Same account too. Anyways. I’m out. If I ever do get a chance to play people that clearly have been waiting a while? I won’t wait for an ad to clear so I can play the next game. So sorry wwf lovers. I’m out!.Version: 19.00.1
✓ Bots and AdsI understand the use of ads, however there are some that you can’t even “x” out of. I have to tap the ad, get redirected to the App Store, go back to the ad, then finally an “x” pops up. I also don’t like all the bots requesting games, posing as real people. This game trying to trick people into thinking they are playing real people is wrong..Version: 18.60.9
✓ AdsLove the game but the same ad repeating between every move is making me crazy so will be staying away from thus game.Version: 8.62.1
✓ More and more rubbish being added to what is basically a good gameThe title says it all really! Underneath all the nonsense (coins, challenges, etc..) it provides a decent platform on which you can play Scrabble online with your friends. It’s just that as the game has developed it’s become harder and harder to ignore all the non-Scrabble crap that they foist on you. I'm not complaining about the ads as I do understand they have to make money somehow on what is after all a free app. It’s all the other stuff they should get rid of, or at least make it optional. Do that and it will get 5 stars from me..Version: 12.50.1
✓ Words with friendsThe game is fun. BUT the upgrade wrecked it!!! Couldn’t play on my I5S anymore. Started playing on Kindle but games disappear... they go to the versions that can only be played in newer versions of IPhone which means to keep playing the game I have to play on the IPhone which version is now full of a bunch of time wasting junk!!!!!! As if the advertisements aren’t bad enough no there is a load of extra unwanted time wasting junk you can’t op out of!!!!! So friends I’ve been playing for many years I can only play on IPhone version. other friends I can start and back and forth on Kindle maybe a dozen turns and then the game disappears!!!! So trying to play only on Kindle only works for some friends and not others. You’d think there would be a higher level of sophistication and security to prevent cross contamination between Kindle and the phone versions.. unless they planned it? I really just want to play on Kindle the classic game... I hope they resolve this problem ASAP or I might have to see if regular scrabble is as good or better than words with friends.😥.Version: 12.27.1
✓ Words With Friends 4I hate this new version...distracting things flipping all over the screen, silly-looking cartoon opponents (we are not seven years old). I loved the older version. This new version is definitely not an improved version! Zynga should have left it as it was, and added a second version, rather than replacing it. Very disappointing. Will look for a different word game...not by Zynga..Version: 12.26.1
✓ Ads and crashingIf you absolutely must show so many ads, please fix them so they actually play! It is tedious enough to have to sit through an ad, even for the minimum required time. It is quite intolerable to have to sit through a black screen, which is what happens to most of the ads that I have to endure. Then sometimes there is a black screen that does nothing forcing me to restart the game 😡🤬!! I very much enjoy the game itself, but all the other nonsense that goes with it is wearing my patience a bit thin!!!.Version: 17.70.1
✓ Great game but OMG the free version is TORTUREThe free version of this game doesn’t just have ads. Ads I could deal with. The free version of this has horrible, mind-numbingly idiotic 30 second animations designed by psychologists to cause MAXIMUM anger and frustration on the part of the user. Every time you play a word you are BOMBARDED WITH THESE INANE cartoons that have a 30 second countdown and no way to avoid them. It is SO OBVIOUS that these were designed to torture the user into opening their wallet. Games like this should come with a warning: “the free version of this game is not actually a game. It is an instrument of TORTURE designed to either 1) drive you insane, 2) cause levels of blind rage sufficient to cause you to throw yourself under a bus, or 3) get out your credit card and give them anything they want to make the torture stop. The sad thing is, once you turn off all the ridiculous settings that make the game behave like a Vegas slot machine, and if you take enough sedatives to get you past the barrage of garbage in between plays, the game itself is actually extremely good..Version: 13.66.1
✓ Used to love this gameI Have 20 games going right now, but I have to wait thirty seconds per ad between games to play. It takes too long to play 20 games this way and the music for the ads sucks and interferes with the music I usually play on my device. Let me buy the app and I’ll keep playing. Force me to listen and watch the ads.. sorry team back to scrabble I go. Treat us your client with some respect. Of course you are a numbers game so I doubt I’m going to receive this respect from you. Do you read these comments? Let’s see....Version: 13.05.1
✓ Systematically gets worse each updateThis is not Words with Friends classic. It is the exact same app as Words with friends 2 after the last few updates. It has the same indulgent animations between plays “you earned 5 points. Tap the [stupid bouncing] blue gift box” etc. It allows cheating (swap without missing a turn, word radar). The shuffle button needs laser-like precision to actually shuffle (tap too far right of the button and nothing happens). I would like to see Words with friends classic become a cheat-free, mid-animation-free, time-sensitive version where we pay to be a part of the league of puritans who love the original game of scrabble. The one that the original founders built so beautifully..Version: 11.71.1
✓ AnnoyingI have played WWF since 2011. I play everyday. I bought the app originally to get rid of the ads, but now it is full of other annoying Paraphernalia. All this other ‘junk’ has slowed the game to a crawl. It freezes in the middle of the game constantly and takes a lifetime to load. I used to be able to quickly log in and get started, now it just takes an eternity and all those boxes and daily words😱. Why??? For people who just want to play what was a great game, can’t you include a way to turn these off. I only play 3 people now, as that’s all I can manage with the time it takes..Version: 13.66.1
✓ Push advertising gone too farPlayed this game hundreds of times and whilst doing so, have been quite willing to tolerate the mildly annoying adds in exchange for playing the free version of this game. However; Recently these integral adds have increasingly been replaced by adds that force you into downloading other apps - with no option to decline. This has become so annoying that I have now decided to delete the app from my device. My advice to anyone thinking of downloading this game is: Either go for the paid version (which quite simply is not worth the price) or just leave well alone - the adds will drive you frigging crazy..Version: 11.91.3
✓ Games crash, account freezesGreat app but I’m constantly having to contact support to ask them to refresh my account. It freezes every few days. It’s tiresome. M The classic WWF app is much cleaner and nicer than the 2nd version. Hard to report the hundreds of false scam accounts. It would be good to view a profile before accepting a game as I’d only accept established players of a similar skill. Not enough is being done to stop the scammers..Version: 16.21.2
✓ Advert Scams Electronic SurfboardsSeem to be doing very little to prevent scam adverts on this app. This week everyday I have had heaps of Bingodone electronic surfboard ads. It’s a clever looking website but please do your due diligence Words With Friends - your app players will be getting scammed via your app while you make ad money..Version: 11.0.2
✓ Improvements NeededFar too many adds, especially how you can't press continue straight away. Time before it ends a game when someone doesn't have their turn is far too long. And you should be able to resign when it's the other persons turns. Otherwise good game. 3 stars..Version: 4.09
✓ CheatersThis would be an okay game if it weren’t for the multitude of blatant cheaters using anagrammers..Version: 18.01.3
✓ Still consideringI was forced into this program when my original program would no longer work for me. This has resulted in my being unable to use the chat function because my friends are still continuing the older version. They can write to me though but I can’t reply.I agree with another writer that your ads are invasive and annoying. What a pity you have chosen to treat players in this way. In addition why are there so E letters in a game? I have 4+E letters when the words played can add up to 8-15 of that letter..Version: 14.31.1
✓ AdsAds are overwhelming and no way to permanently turn them off. Unusable, if you value your time.Version: 18.01.3
✓ WWFI am addicted to this game. I love it - and some days I hate it! I can ignore the ads, but when the screen freezes or the screen distorts, then I just get frustrated. I would like to know which dictionary is used to allow certain words. It allows some strange words, and disallows others - with no means of clarification. I have been able to get help with certain problems - but the game doesn't seem to be up-dated to improve after help has been given..Version: 8.62.1
✓ RuinedUngodly amount of forced ads.Version: 17.91.2
✓ Notifications & AdsI do love this app, but notifications that permanently stay on are not helpful, specifically inventory and solo games that I don’t play. Ads are fine for the most part except when they are the same ad over and over..Version: 18.20.1
✓ Words With Friends 2After the last iOS update two weeks ago, the app will not work on my iPad or iPhone. My games will not refresh at all on any platform. The daily challenge is the only one that works. There is no phone tech support. The in app tech support is terrible. They give me the same options that are already posted everywhere, as though I would need to contact them if my issues were that simple. Once I’m contacting you, my issues are beyond those solutions. By then almost a week in including a game refresh which still doesn’t work. Love playing the game, although hands down all of the new stuff should be a totally separate application that you choose to use, not shoved down your throat. It’s a turn off, the changes that have been made. The classic original is still the preferred game and should be an uninterrupted option. I love the game. More games should be offered than the 56 cutoff. Customer support/technical support is lacking and terrible. 2.5 weeks now, and I’m still unable to play my games, with no idea of when this issue will be resolved. Obviously an upgrade is due for compatibility with the new iOS update, but no one seems to be listening. Therefore one star from me..Version: 15.70.3
✓ Too many changes in the app.Too confusing I have played since2011. There are frequent, and confusing changes with.Version: 18.60.9
✓ Too many glitches.The game is great in most respects, however, it repeatedly tells me certain words are not valid so that I can’t play them (squaw, esq, seq are some that won’t pass) yet then the hindsight features tells me I should have played the word that has not passed because it was not a valid word!! This can be the difference between winning or losing the game, and is really annoying. Also wont record my highest word score correctly. Gives me the highest word score with the opponent & for that game, but still doesn’t update it as my overall high word score. Fix up those glitches & I’ll be a happier user!.Version: 15.20.5
✓ Bonus Video..This has been an very frustrating issue..it keeps saying ..”Still Loading”. Please try again......this has been happening since 3pm today....how about fixing the problem..hmmm 😠 The bonus video started at 3pm and 3 opened..its now nearly 3hrs later and its jammed up again...last it took 12hrs to download..so for 12hrs it told us it was taking longer than normal to download to try again later...hmmm. 12hrs..what’s causing lengthy delays..surely you’ve got an answer..😟 Can’t open bonus videos.. it’s now 24hrs..what is the problem and why...you need to fix this, if this continues then take it off ..but.. don’t offer bonuses if you can’t fulfil it...not impressed 😠 The bonus videos are clogged up again,, constantly saying it’s still loading try again later...hmmmm..😟..annoying.Version: 12.50.1
✓ Reasonable Game but bugged adsThe game is reasonable, standard scrabble type of game. It allows slang words from certain countries but not others which is frustrating at times. If you want to use the word strength you’re required to watch advertising to unlock it and have found that many times it is bugged and you have to watch the “right” one before it unlocks. Sometimes this might take more than a dozen attempts and restarts of the app..Version: 17.60.4
✓ Love the game, filled with spam playersI have had this app on and off since 2012 and never when I played in previous years did I experience what I have since I downloaded it a few days ago. Many players start a game and typically are not high scorers, they begin to chat innocently enough such as thanking me for playing. I am okay with this or a great word or great game. These profiles have been men and want to know if I have children, where I am located, and if I have a significant other. When I state I am not interested in discussing my personal life and am only here to play the game two have them asked for my Gmail account as if I didn’t say I wasn’t interested in any discussion. These are huge red flags to me for hacking or possible information for something dangerous. I would feel more secure and better if the chat option was more used with pre-populated phrases for encouragement. This is not a dating site and I am uncomfortable being quizzed regarding me, my children, and my location. Be safe on here for sure!.Version: 15.50.1
✓ Very poor vocabularyThe ads are a bit annoying but playing free you can expect that. What I don’t like is that a great deal of words, that are in the dictionary, are not accepted in the game. If this was unusual words then fair enough but we are talking words that are in every day use. If they want to make some money then they are going to have to put ina lot more effort before I part with any hard earned. Concept and delivery are pretty good but the basics of a word game, the words, don’t deliver.Version: 8.63.1
✓ I’m devastated!I played this game very happily for around 10 years and built up a lovey group to play with. Then overnight I got inundated with ads, black screens and one ad that just wouldn’t close so I had to uninstall and reinstall the app, losing all my co players in the process. I was able to get my cousin back and one other player whose actual name I knew, but that was all. I feel bereft after so many years of playing with the others. Now everything is monetised and all the fun has gone out of it. I contacted customer relations but it was a bot and and the only advice I got was to uninstall and reinstall!! I want my old players back. I would happily pay a one off fee to get rid of the ads but that wouldn’t get my friends back..Version: 17.13.1
✓ Update has created more problemsFully paid for this originally and worked well. Latest update makes it almost unusable. Once a move is made in a game and I hit the 'next game' tab it will now not open the next game!! The only way I can open the next game is to get out of the app and get back in. I also don't want suggestions of people I can play. I don't play with randoms only two friends. I'm not on Facebook so why are random people popping up?? Who is the Assistant Earl and why the bleeding hell do I need him?. Looks like they just want me to spend $ and I won't! Been using this app for years and I'm extremely disappointed..Version: 10.85.8
✓ D@#n Your so-called 'dictionary & ads!If I could, I'd give ya'll "0" stars...I'm sick & tired of checking a word in your "dictionary" to see the comment that you accept the word, however ya'll say no definition is to be found. I also HATE your acceptance of archaic words (usually Scottish), foreign words or slang but not always proper English...& when I "introduce" you to definitions from the Oxford or Webster's dictionary, you'll "consider" that word & never allow me, or anyone else for that matter, to see your inclusion or continued exclusion of the word. Also, your acceptance of slang, abbreviations, & nonsense words just angers me no end. Also hate the way you've allowed vendors to hide &/or put the "skip/x" symbol in places that are difficult to see or hit. I would pay to play Scrabble but my family, the only persons I play with, unfortunately Scrabble is no more..so I'm stuck with you, you miserable cretins! I’d update this…but it’s pretty well put above. The ONLY reason I continue with this crappy version of the Scrabble board game, is I play with my Nephew…the ONLY reason!!!.Version: 16.91.2
✓ Maria manningLove the game but as others have said in their reviews, adverts are too many and annoying. In the trivial game where you can earn 1-3 stars to move up the leader board ….there are a few opponents who do not place a word after my first turn and the timer expires but the game clock doesn’t then switch over to my turn. This is a waste of my lives for each game played and I’ve been blocking them but more keep popping up. Please remove cheaters and let’s all play fair..Version: 16.21.2
✓ Too Many Adverts!!!Shoving advertising in our face is in POOR TASTE. 🤬🤬🤬.Version: 11.91.3
✓ Give us back the original!I agree with these other reviews, I HATE all the gimmicks! Just give us back the original. I want to win, or lose, fair and square. I will not watch ads the whole time I am trying to play-it’s not worth it. I paid for the ad-less version and that is what I want. You keep putting something up in front of my screen preventing me from playing unless I click on “continue “. I believe if I do, ads will begin to appear again and you will be tracking my every move and invading my privacy. This has been going on for months and I will not click to approve that. I paid and shouldn’t have to go through all of this again but I would rather you charge me another small amount and leave me alone if that is what you have to do. Get rid of all of the superfluous garbage and just let us play with NO cheating! I would love to hear from a developer!.Version: 17.91.2
✓ Such intrusive advertisementsAnd a ridiculous price to pay to get rid of them. My mum bought the ad free version back in the day for a few dollars. Now they want $15 for 30 days. This just highlights the greed of CEO’s at public listed companies. You spend more time waiting for 30 second ads to disappear between each move than you do actually playing. My advice is scrap this absolute time waster and do a personal puzzle instead. It will also save you lots of phone battery power and data..Version: 14.20.3
✓ Game Ruined - Very DisappointedI’ve been playing WWF for years and skipped all previous updates; I only updated now because I was forced to with iOS 11. My previous version had a simple interface and no adverts. This update is awful with constant advertising, a cluttered interface and overall makes for an unpleasant and frustrating experience. I had enjoyed this game since it was released as a form of relaxation, but this update has completely ruined that. Developers need to listen, simple is best!.Version: 8.62.1
✓ Latest updatePrefer previous version. Too easy to hit the play button accidentally while still trialling tiles to play. You end up playing words when you’re not ready as there’s no option now to review words before actually playing them. 😣.Version: 14.61.1
✓ Would be great but…This game forces you to participate in every silly concept they have. You should be able to opt out and just play the game with friends. Still the easiest to use, it’s reliable..Version: 19.20.1
✓ Sick of the adsCan’t get rid of the ads in this version and it’s nearly $50 in the other version.. it’s an ok game but not worth $50 to be ad free and having to constantly close this version cause the ads freeze means I don’t bother with it as much I would if I could go ad free. The badges are cute but unless you have zero life they’re out of reach after a certain point, this detracts from the game also. It’s not what it used to be 👎🏻.Version: 8.62.1
✓ Classic?!I’m not sure how they can call this the “classic” version of the app, it is filled with garbage power ups, achievements, and useless notifications that I can’t get rid of. When I download a game called “words with friends,” I just want to play a game of words with my actual friends, I don’t want stupid challenges or bonuses or any of the complete trash that is all over this app..Version: 14.42.5
✓ Too many adsWhile I enjoy playing words, I don’t enjoy watching ads that last at least 2 minutes between each game. Lots of the time it is impossible to close them and it is far too expensive to pay to block them..Version: 18.80.1
✓ Cluttered with junkI was forced into words with friends 2 several years ago by the apps constant hounding, and it gradually became overloaded with junk games within games And it slowed to a crawl as they take a minute to congratulate you for each spurious word completed, or other task completed that has nothing to do with the game. So when it was accidentally deleted, and I found I could revert to classic words with friends, I was somewhat hopeful. However I now find the classic words with friends is only marginally less cluttered with junk, and almost equally slow. Not only that. it now has a new feature. Every now and then they force you to start a game with a cartoon character. Apparently they’ve forgotten that the name of the game is words with friends and not words with artificial intelligence. I’ve managed to keep going despite all the handicaps because I do value my few long term series with some of my friends, but I honestly believe that the management of the app is now in the hands of people who don’t understand it. I gave it a one only because apparently you can’t give it a minus 1..Version: 12.70.9
✓ Beware! These guys allow scam offers!Can’t leave less than one star More bad news. Not only are these guys shoving so many ads down our throats that we can barely play the game, but they aren’t even interested in making the game work properly. The Word of the Day solo play feature never allows me to complete the day’s challenge. I get 4-5 words into it and it suddenly tells me that it can’t do something and then disappears. The challenge is gone and cannot be completed or restarted. More sloppy programming from people whose only real focus is shoving advertisement down your throat. Run screaming the other way! I expect the ads shoved down my throat constantly trying to get me to download other games they offer which do the same thing… basically it’s 30% playing and 70% dodging ads. What I did not expect was to be presented ads which advertise claiming to be someone else (scam), offer products for a charge of $1-5 to cover shipping, and then instantly be charged several high dollar amounts forcing me to close the credit card! If you WWF does business with scammers on its site, then they are the same sort of bottom feeding scum as the scammers! Run the other way!!.Version: 17.60.4
✓ Hate the ads!I love the game but sick of the ads, have tried to find how I can buy this game so it will be add free but no luck so far. It gets very annoying when you have to see the same ad 20 times at 15 seconds in length when it has no relevance to me! Give me an easy option to buy this game! Now with the update it is even worse, after the ad, iPad freezes and I have to restart the game, you just ruined a game that was going downhill with the ads now with bugs included, great job, no testing before upgrading?.Version: 10.85.8
✓ Words With Friends is no ScrabbleWhere to begin? I guess it’s my fault for expecting that this game was Scrabble or a reasonable facsimile. I am an avid Scrabble player and take pride in my vocabulary. Imagine my shock when all of a sudden words that ARE NOT WORDS began to show up as accepted by this game. And imagine my even BIGGER shock when I looked up these so called words in the game’s definition section and find that AT THIS TIME WE HAVE NO DEFINITION FOR THIS WORD BUT WE ARE WORKING ON IT.....huh? And the skip your turn option with no penalty? And the option to see where you can make the best play? Why bother playing at all? I have told my friends who play with me that if they are using those options, cross me off their list. I do not use them ever. And as for some doozy “words” my friends come up with....they tell me they throw everything at the wall to see what sticks. Oh, fun. So why do I play? Oh I don’t know.....bored I guess. If anyone else feels like I do, there’s real Scrabble at a site called Word Biz that is an Internet Scrabble Club and is true Scrabble. I play it on my computer and it’s awesome. One more thing....I find all the non-game interruptions annoying. I know I can delete the app anytime I want but I do enjoy the actual strategy of playing a straight-forward game with no “help” options. One more observation.....how can a word be a word if it has no definition?.Version: 14.42.5
✓ Good gameI’ve been playing this game and other versions for quite a few years now. I think it could be challenging at times which makes it fun and I like the classic version where you can be part of a team in the lightning round. This allows you to play a game in between instead of having to wait for others to be ready to play one on one. Cons: a lot of ads in between and what’s worse is that the same exact ad will play after every couple of moves for the whole day which is very annoying. I also find that the game freezes a lot which is annoying as I have to either delete the game and then download it again or turn off my phone and then turn it back on. I also don’t like the fact that the wordclue powerups only give you a word but not the top scoring word when your stuck and our words to come up with on your own. Overall, it’s a good game to play when you’re bored and trying to kill time..Version: 18.30.1
✓ Too many stupid side issuesThis is a game for a phone not an ipad where it is horribly slow. I am on the free version, which they don’t like people to be on, they started making it that I could only collect rewards on every second step of the reward ladder. Now they have decided that not only will it be every second step but you will then have to pay them some of your coins to open the so called reward. They can keep their rewards..Version: 17.50.1
✓ Ads for MooresEvery time the Moores ad comes on it will not quit. Have to restart game every time.Version: 18.30.1
✓ Very annoying extra garbageOh Words With Friends, what happened?? Used to be a classic Scrabble game, fun to play with friends and now we are all so sick of the badges, pop-ups, congrats, daily goals and other super annoying so called extras that just slow the game down and make it awful to play. None of these things can be turned off in settings, and I have used the paid version of this game for years so I should be able to. I know I am not alone. With every update something worse is added. Today’s new annoyance is the game doesn’t allow you to just go to the next game like before, now it suggests other people to play with, can’t turn it off. Zynga needs to read these reviews. Also, what’s up with the words that aren’t real words (according to the game), but can be played anyway?? And some of the definitions of words are downright BIZARRE. So disappointed in the direction this game has gone. On the hunt for another word game for grown-ups..Version: 14.71.2
✓ Used to be fun but now it’s clutteredWWF used to be really fun because of the simplicity of playing with friends with nothing to pop up except for 5 to 10 second ads. Ever since an update a couple months ago now there are more ads that are usually 30 seconds. Not only that but they added these “improvements” and challenges that interrupt matches. I like the idea of challenges but I don’t like the fact that they are forced to be reviewed and waste a good 10 to 15 seconds of your time just so you can see you completed them. And the last thing I have to complain about is that the game has been freezing my entire phone almost every other match. This is the only app that I have that does that and I have an iPhone 8 Plus. I don’t know what you did to your game in the last update but fix it because I am tired of my phone freezing for minutes. The only reason I haven’t deleted your game is because I still want to play with friends but your latest updates are really wanting me to delete your game and never touch it again because you guys have screwed it up really badly. The fact that you’re getting two stars is just out of pity Due to the fact that the game is still fun to an extent....Version: 12.70.9
✓ ProblemVery frustrating when you cannot access your earned coins! Have deleted app and downloaded several time and it is still the same problem!.Version: 18.80.1
✓ Words with friendsThe ads in this game kick me off the game at least 30 or more times a day, at least till I get sick of having to shutdown my iPad after every move and switch to a different game. Also you now have to get tickets to play the solo challenge and you are allowed to get 5gem free 4 times a day except that it is always “still connecting” so you can’t watch the ad to get them. Also can’t get the fee coins for watching an ad it’s always still loading! However after every play in the game the ads load just fine, the problem is you just can’t close a lot of them and some of them take you off the game completely. You do sometimes off me a “deal “ to watch ad free for 30 or 40 days for ten to fifteen dollars, how can you possibly consider that a good deal? I’m on a fixed income and it difficult to find money to but groceries let alone pay a ridiculous price to play a game that doesn’t respect it’s players ..Version: 17.91.2
✓ Unwelcome “improvements”I have played & enjoyed WWF for years. Along the way, I have had to lose playing time to wait out or work around many irritating “improvements”, & fend off many ways to cheat. You frequently interrupt the game to say I’ve accidentally “accomplished” some pointless side goal not my own, & then make it impossible to get back to the game without tapping “great” for something I despise. I feel especially jerked around by that last thing. “Great,” It is not. Just now, I got put through a new diversion involving leveling and pages. It took so long to find a way out that I began to think I had been expelled from WWF. As a final insult, to get out of its teeth, I had to tap “Great!” I value the player contacts I’ve made, and I enjoy coming up with words, so I keep playing; but is it really not possible to opt out of the irrelevant time-wasting crap? I know I am not the only adult playing this game. There are many who would welcome a clean version like you once had. Please consider it..Version: 18.20.1
✓ So disappointing- from a long standing fanI’ve enjoyed this game for several years now but made the mistake of updating it recently- now it takes so long to load ( all those ads and pointless extras) that my phone often switches off during the process. As mentioned elsewhere there are now endless additional ‘games’ power ups etc and to be frank, in game cheats. The ads in between your go and the next now often run to over 30 seconds- yes, my phone goes to sleep if I’m not watching- very poor show Zynga- sort it out or I’m gone I used to find this a relaxing way to pass time playing with friends but it is now so frustrating that I’m considering deleting it.Version: 14.20.3
✓ Big whoop!So I’ve just been told by WWF developers that while there isn’t an emoji for cotton candy there IS a new COTTON CANDY TILE STYLE!!! Well whoopty dee!! - Who Cares!! I can’t even imagine what that is and who the hell cares anyway! The developers seem to be struggling and desperate to remain relevant to their fan base. If they really wanted to improve this app they could address many of the negative feedbacks contained in many various reviews and realise that they are marketing to a global market not just the USA.Version: 15.60.2
✓ OMG ...the Ads!Update Dec 2021: No change. Kroger, you are killing me. You were my childhood grocery store and I loved you. I hate your recipe ads and will never watch that or any others. Ridiculous. And now WWF, you have put a banner at the top and I can’t see the score. Knock it off please. The game itself, I’d give a 5. It’s fun, good to have a touchstone for friends far away, and unknown friends. But OMG, the ads are ridiculous. There are now TWO-MINUTE ads in the game, over and over and over again. Playing the solo 12 level “find a word” games, it takes 25 minutes to play. 1 minute for the game itself and 24 minutes of ads. Really WWF? Really? I won’t speak for anyone else, but these days I have the attention span of a gnat. The 30 second gross and repetitious Gardenscapes ads now seem like a nanosecond. Who does this? And advertisers, if you can’t say it in 15 or 20 seconds, then get a better marketing firm. You are being played. Maybe I watched 40 seconds the first time, but after 6 times in a row, it’s mind numbing insanity. I now play WWF and read a book at the same time. So thanks for that. Advertisers please reconsider...a solid 20 second ad will grab my attention, 2 minutes in a game ruins all credibility or desire to purchase your products. I wrote this over a year ago and now it’s happening again. Knock it off advertisers!.Version: 17.13.1
✓ Flawed, but compulsiveThe fact that I have racked up so many thousands of games is testament enough. But the tendency to lock up is frustrating, and the constant stream of advertising for violent games is unsettling. As for the dictionary, let’s just say that it is hardly a model of academic rigour. But the fact that it randomly allows some proper names and highly dubious words brings a sort of charming unpredictability to the game..Version: 15.20.5
✓ CrapI’ve been playing this game for over 9 years and gradually over time the developers have got more and more greedy. It’s just adverts, adverts and more adverts. The rewards for completing any of the tasks are now so paltry it’s not worth completing them. The solo challenge has also been ruined. One game I was playing the app on solo and it scored 118 points after two moves! And that was supposed of been medium difficulty! I had 4x “O” and 3x “I”! Completely unplayable! I like many others will be leaving this once good game and moving to another..Version: 17.91.2
✓ Never have problemsFor the most part I never have any technical issues with this game! I enjoy it and play everyday. I do wish there was a way to get a full premium version with no ads. I generally would never pay for something to get rid of ads but I would for this game because I play it so much and get annoyed that a ad or video ad takes over entire screen after EVERY move! I think it is too much! Also include some of the word meters and other game helpers and I would pay. One thing that will forever bother me is scoring less for long words than many two letter words on a TW DW TL etc. it is not easy to create long words that fit somewhere in this game but to only get 8 or 9 points is so stupid IMO. Overall love the game! Updated Sunday November 5th. Got a new iPhone 8+ upgrade went to re-download I see a words with friends classic and words with friends I download them both looking for the hindsight and the swap and I don’t see them on either game I’m wondering where everything went and what’s going on don’t ruin this game for us!!!!!.Version: 8.63.1
✓ GrannymansI have only given 3 stars because, although I love this game it keeps freezing on me. Very frustrating..Version: 15.00.6
✓ “Ad Free Bundle” my footTl;dr — Aesthetically pleasing gameplay, and the app performs smoothly. Minus 3 stars for shoddy ad removal via a half-baked “subscription” & no other options. — The game is fine — I appreciate that this version of WWF (why, WHY are there 3 nearly identical versions on offer?) sports, to my eyes, the most streamlined UI of all the popular social crossword games (Scopely’s new take on Scrabble should take copious notes). The app behaves as expected, which is a good baseline for any mobile game/application in 2020. BUT: who do you think you’re kidding offering a $9.99 USD “ad free bundle” which only removes the ads for 30 days? Just offer a subscription model like literally EVERY other app has shifted towards in the past year. Call it what it is. Because I’m old enough to remember when customers could choose to endure the ads for a free mobile game (and that’s still a fair trade-off), or we could pay a few dollars *once* simply to remove the ads from our experience. Why has that option fallen out of favor? You want players to throw you $10 a month? Fine, offer a subscription & bundle up the ad removal & a replenishing stock of boosters/power-ups/in-game currency. The players who want that will pay for it. For the rest of us who just want to get the ads out of the way, give us the option to throw you $5-7 USD & be done with it..Version: 14.70.2
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