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zpatsfan1265
6 years ago
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HD Table Game / "Find a Friend" Feedback

This is regarding the new iteration of Jungle Gin HD. I do appreciate that Pogo did establish the chat feature on the side of the screen. The HD game graphics also look great, so kudo's to you in tha...
  • EA_Arrenai's avatar
    EA_Arrenai
    6 years ago

    Hey there, @zpatsfan1265.

    As your feedback wasn't specifically about the game retirements, I moved it off into its own thread in the New Pogo Experience forum to help with tracking. Those who agree can also now do a "Me Too" on the feedback.

    Thanks so much for your feedback. I'll be sure to pass it along to the Pogo team.

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cafedelon
6 years ago

@zpatsfan1265, I'm just a Club Pogo member who helps out at the Answers HQ forum. An EA community manager will read your comments. Your concern might be elevated up to the EA Pogo team. I am not sure that the game will be revised in the near future, because EA's focus seems to be adding more new HTML5 games to make up for all the Flash and Java games being removed.

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zpatsfan1265
6 years ago

Cafedelon, I do realize that you are just helping out. Maybe I'd like to do that myself, if Pogo survives. 😉 

My concern is with all HD games which do not allow you to join a friend at any time. 

To respond to your post, I want to be very clear that I'm not just concerned for Jungle Gin HD, but for every game that will be developed when you are NOT able to find your friends, unless they freeze themselves in place for hours and don't play with Bots.  I play Spades for about an hour, almost every night with friends I have had for 10 years or more. I'm concerned for all the games with this Find a Friend format. 

I totally understand that Pogo must go HD, due to the phase out of Flash. They can make all the games HD, I don't care about that. I've been on Pogo since 2001 and have long standing friendships.  

If you're listening EA, make all the changes you want, but you must keep the classic Pogo way in which you can join your friends, while they are playing with Bots, if they are in a full Spades room, and you want to "sit on their lap", so to speak.  Also, EA, the new games look great. They are not conductive to finding friendships. 

The importance here is that the programming must be changed in the new games so you can join your friend, whatever time you want like it's done now.  I know that it's possible, I took programming in college. 

  • playervpksh1gc's avatar
    playervpksh1gc
    5 years ago

    I agree entirely.  I have tried several times to meet a friend in Jungle Gin.  When I log into Jungle Gin, it shows one friend playing, but there is not a hot link to click and join them in the room.  If I go into the rooms and look, the friend never shows up there.   The entire update of the site has been a disappointment, and it looks like POGO is turning a blind eye to the paying customers who want to play here.  The old catch line, "The best place to meet new friends", seems to be in error at this point.   You can meet new friends, but finding them is haphazard the way the programmers have changed things.   

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      EA_Arrenai
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      5 years ago

      Hey there, @playervpksh1gc.

      Was your friend in the middle of a game? If so, the table they're at won't show, but if they are waiting for opponents to join and are not playing other players or robots, then you'll find that friend in the Friends' Tables section of the table select screen.

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      • playervpksh1gc's avatar
        playervpksh1gc
        5 years ago

        The problem with that is, if I sit there not playing, your game times out and kicks me out.   I tried that and was kicked out each time, had to go back in and host another room.

        There must be a better way, for instance, if I'm playing against robots, my friend should see me and have the opportunity to enter the game to play with me.

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    Kermitthefrog99
    5 years ago
    @zpatsfan1265 wrote:

    Cafedelon, I do realize that you are just helping out. Maybe I'd like to do that myself, if Pogo survives. 😉 

    I think Pogo is gonna survive.

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