Wordz + Wiki

My wife and I have been playing Wordz for years and continue to enjoy it. We have recommended it to friends and family. When switching phones all it took was a quick email and they transferred all of our standing to the new phone. But what happened recently? All of the sudden all the players have disappeared. Where only a month ago we played against 50 or more players no it is 15 or less. What happened?

This is the BEST game! The only issue is a) it has too many ads and b) whenever they play an ad while your volume is off, it will glitch and turn you volume back up and then you have to close the app and open it again.

It's a fun game, but the loading of the ads causes the app to temporarily freeze and become non-responsive for up to 20 seconds at a time. Also, some ads generate pop-up alerts, which you can't close without clicking "ok", which launches the App Store.

Still with the ads that interrupt the game. Can't believe no one else complains about this. At the risk of repeating myself, I really like this game, but for $2.99, shouldn't the ads go away? Really? Full screen ads that disrupt the game? What was it that I paid for, actually?

Used to be a fun app. Now, even after purchasing Pro, there's still an ad banner across the top during game play and a 3-18 second video ad during game results. Considering this is a timed game, with 20 seconds between games if your connection is decent, this is not useable any more. Did my purchase mean nothing? Are the makers so desperate for revenue that they don't care to make this playable? When I got on here to write this review, I see the makers now offer a Wordz 2. Maybe that's why this game is now inundated with ads - to pay for the development of their next app? Don't waste your money on this one. Update: After the latest bug fix, this app has gotten worse, if possible. It used to be that I was spared the low banner ad if I played a solo game, but now, and especially with my smaller screen, the add is displayed across the letters. Now I have to guess if the letter is a D or a P. What a joke and frustrating experience. After using this app for almost 10 years, I deleted it from my device. I would not recommend anything from this developer. Really, how could they think that after buying the full version that I would enjoy clicking through ads on a timed game? There are other enjoyable and well made word apps out there so I don’t recommend sticking with Fugo.

Most recently they've started popping up some ads mid-game. You have to hit OK which is supposed to take you to some website but thankfully does not. Still wastes about 5 sec of your time, and along with 3 sec freeze when ads change is very frustrating. Unforgivable for an app I spent money on already. Update: Ads have recently gotten much worse. Some games I can hardly play because ads keep popping up. Even when they don't pop up, the always visible ads at the top pause the game for several seconds many times during the game, messing up words as you type. I used to like playing this game, now it is an exercise in frustration. I bet some company bought them out and decided to maximize profits by maximizing ads, not realizing they will lose their only valuable asset, the player base.

Update: I’m going to stop playing this game. The ads are so long after every game that you don’t get to see your results and then miss a good portion of the next game. Absolutely obnoxious and inexcusable!!! I’ve been playing this game forever and enjoy the challenge but the amount of adds is overwhelming and it also gets in the way of reviewing the game results. Some adds even open up my browser and force me to close and reopen the game to continue. One other comment is that I purchased pro but now on a new iPad there is no way to load the pro profile I created. Listen up creators. I’m not the only one commenting on the ads shortcoming. You will start losing players if you can’t reign it in a bit.

Unless you buy the pro version, the ads are too intrusive. At the end of a game while waiting for the next one to start, some ads are 30 seconds long. By the time the ad stops, the results have posted and the next round has started. I had purchased the pro version but, I uninstalled the app. When I installed again I was unable to recover pro. I have also noticed that there aren’t as many people playing as there was in the past. I guess I’ll join the permanently uninstalled group.

There’s no reason I shld have to let these ppl know every time I reinstall this app, since I’ve paid a few times for it, I should only have had today once and at the time I reinstall I should have my status back unless I want to start over. When I paid for this game I wasn’t doing that for status purpose. I wanted the same amount of time as everyone else was getting, and also audio is kind of a big deal. I hate no sound with the no paid version.

This is an extremely fun game but I can’t play anymore because they run ads that run into the next round. This causes you to a) not see where you ranked because you miss the results screen because you are stuck on an ads you cannot get out of and b) miss 5 to 10 seconds of the next round for the same reason. If they monitored the ads for say a 10 second max, then this would solve the problem

Through all the glitches this game has had, my wife and I have enjoyed playing together. It’s been fun, friendly competition. Today, my wife was playing. I was not. She asked if I was playing. I was showing up in the results for the games she was playing — several games in a row. I joined from my iPad. The game correctly reported my results, on both of our iPads, without showing a second me in the results. I stopped playing and shut the game down. My name kept showing up in the results for my wife’s games, with varying scores and rankings. How many people we seem to be playing against are real? How many are computer generated fakes? We’re done with this game.

This used to be my favorite game until I got a new iPad and had to reload the game. In spite of paying the fee (a new fee is required for every new device and re-load) I am forced to wait for a full page ad to run between each game. Some of the ads are 30 seconds long which completely interferes with the game. I am disgusted that the company made a decision to maximize profits at the expense of the users. Nobody should purchase this game.

What's the use of rating and writing a review for this game if no one is monitoring this site? If is extremely annoying to constantly have that pop up. Or could this be a ploy to have everyone that's annoyed by the pop up to Stop playing this game because it might just work with me.

But ads are a huge issue. And the game freezes a lot during an ad, where you cannot see your score. Used to be a lot of fun—-played it all the time. With the problems as of late, I play it very sparingly. Too many other games to play with far-less problems.