Spades and Canasta Revamp to HD
As of March 10, 2020, these two classics will be converted to a HD game. I know this is necessary, so I don't want to be told that the "games are not going away", "you can still play these classic games in HD", "We put the chat on the side" etc. You can play, this is true if you don't care about meeting your friends.
I read the blogs, and the forum posts. I hope that EA also reads these posts, and are revamping these games and all games so that you can easily join your friend. I've already noticed that lots of folks have the same problem by reading the feedback.
How many people have had this same problem? You follow all the instructions, go to the "find a friend" screen, try to find your friends and nobody shows up. The response I get from EA and from the blogs is that "if they are playing with a robot, they will not be visible to you". What are you supposed to do, just sit there for hours without playing and hope that your friend finds you? Well, they can't find you if you are passing the time, waiting and playing with a robot. Playing with robots makes you invisible to your friends. You can find plenty of people that you don't know to play with, which may be fine for some people, but lots of us have been playing for years and enjoy playing with our friends.
EA needs to realize that there is a flaw with their conversion to HD and HTML5 games. You can't find your friends. I already noticed that there are far less players on Pogo than this time last year. Counted 34,000 today, and it's a Saturday afternoon. There were 10 times as many people a year ago. Does EA want Pogo to fail?
If you also have long time friends that you share your Pogo experience with, but can't find them, PLEASE post to this string.
EA, you need to take this seriously as it is a major problem. The ability to find your friends is completely flawed.