What the hell happened to the my old scrabble. Its About the only game I play. NOW its some new damn version. I paid good money to play the old scrabble game without the damn advertisements This is a bunch off crap, you people can stick this new version up your *. Now I have nothing to play after I paid money to become one of your so called pogo members.
You people are misleading and are falsely advertising your games.
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I completely agree with you! Why would they change it? Was there some reason they could not use the other version any more? Terrible mistake. People will not be coming back!
I am also 'not a fan' of the new Scrabble. However, 'not a fan' does not begin to describe how I feel about it. I tried playing once and have already given my feedback about that awful experience. I won't play it again and am considering not renewing my membership. I'll see if POGO/EA responds. I would have thought a message about why, how, and future of it would appear in my inbox.
So to improve, here are some suggestions:
1. Immediately send an e-mail to all members about the why, how, and future
2. Stop downplaying your response to user's comments found both here and on the POGO forum
3. Keep this one and re-lable it for children
4. Create a version that is like the old version and call it for adults
5. Remember it is important to keep your users/customers happy.
I agree everything everyone is saying regarding the new scrabble. It is horrible. Please bring back the previous version.
I would sincerely hope that EA/POGO will do the right thing. There are a lot of us seniors who enjoy playing Scrabble as a way of doing exercise for our minds. It's relaxing and enjoyable. But not now. You changed the game so it is not comfortable on our eyes. It's a total mess. Why change something that was not needed? Please consider, not only the seniors, but everyone who has played Scrabble for MANY years and would love to continue. Give us back our Scrabble.
1. NSA ratings are gone. That is a major downgrade. My theory on that is that Pogo has decided to save money by not paying the NSA some sort of fee they charge to have the ratings.
2. Game mechanics have been dis-improved. Letter tiles do not land on the square where they are dropped unless the pointer is centered in the tile AND the tile is centered on the square before dropping it (just one or the other being centered is not enough). Also, the squares are smaller, which makes that issue worse.
3. The "Expert" bots (the highest level bots you have) are still awful players, as they have been ever since the Pogo Scrabble re-vamp before this one. I beat them every game. In the Pogo Scrabble game before the last one, the Expert level wasn't even the top bot level (there were 5 levels: Novice / Beginner / Intermediate / Expert / Master), but that earlier less-than-top-level Expert bot was a challenge to play, beating me most of the time. My own rating was Expert on that older game (due to the rating reset for the newer game, my rating on that hadn't risen to Expert yet).
4. I prefer to play the original game by the original "Traditional" rules. I think the Pogo "Classic" House rules were a good alternative game (especially for children, because the lexicon is censored). But I think that the new additional variations are completely unnecessary. I suppose I can get used to the additional weeding through the choices to find the "Traditional" button each session.
5. I didn't see any option to play a human (of similar skill or even random)! Has that been removed, too? That's another major downgrade.
6. I don't like having to "unlock" the normal-looking classic game board.
I want to play the classic game of Scrabble, against either a bot that is challenging or a human of similar skill to my own, with the NSA ratings, and without having to "unlock" a normal-looking board.
Add one more game mechanics issue:
2 of the 7 tiles in my rack just changed to a smaller size, and can not be played (clicking on them will not pick them up and drag them). I'm going to have to end the game.
Update:
I was able to resume the game after quitting it, with the unusable tile issue resolved.
So... ONE plus for the new version; resuming a game.
Yes I totally agree! Ive played this scrabble for years and it has mostly been great. But with this new version you can only play bots and the whole look of it is terrible. I hope they get enough feedback to bring back the previous version.
