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by Vintagehussie

I’ve been playing on this app since 2017. I play the rated version with real people and up until the last year or so, everything has been fine. But over the past year, they way the multiplayer is set up has become increasingly frustrating.

You get punished for the dumbest things. Like I get being “punished” for quitting a game that you’re losing but at the same time there are people that will purposely make bad plays, but I get punished for not sticking around when they are clearly sabotaging the game. And the more you “quit” the more the algorithm will purposely match you with lower rated players as “punishment.” but what about punishing the other end? People will literally bid 0 and purposely win books to make you lose 100 points and nothing happens to them.

My rating was in the 2000s and I quit 1 game because a lower rated player that was my partner just went off the rails making purposely dumb plays and now my rating has dropped to the 1600s and can’t get back up because I keep getting matched with partners that have THE lowest ratings. It literally makes no sense. And I can’t even delete my profile and start over. Like literally WHO CARES IF SOMEONE QUITS THE GAME?! I find myself HOPING that my partners will quit, because the AI partner is better than a real person.

by ButterlySheFlies

I downloaded this app less than 24 hours ago and will be uninstalling. My partner and I were winning and there was a racist jerk on the team who became upset he was losing. He than began to tabletalk actually telling his partner what to play and harassing me. I clicked on his profile trying to report the issue and/or block the player and there was not an option to do either. I emailed the developer detailing the experience and suggesting the option be added to the app to report, block players etc. I received a response from the developer whose name is Jason. His response consisted of thanking me for emailing about the AI of the game and that he was sorry I had a bad experience with the "AI". My email had nothing at all to do with the AI of the app. It seems like he just clicked a random auto response and used it to reply to me without even taking the time to read the actual email I sent. I know that developers cannot control actions of other players but they do have control of the level of appreciation(or lack thereof) that they show their supporters. This has been a terrible experience and I refuse to support an app(rather free or not) whose developers show no appreciation or concern for their users.

by Goldenpony

This game would be 5 stars if they would fix the poor sport quitters that leave every game!! 9 out of 10 games today had a player leave cos they got set! Usually in the first hand and the AI bots have crappy abilities to play as a team player. A lot of times the other player quits too because the game plays much worse once you have to depend on the boy to think as a team player! They need to double the penalty points on the quitters that leave a game early and that team loses, and double the points on the winner that wins with a bot partner….ALL quitters should be penalized and lose major points even if their team wins and the losing person that finishes shouldn’t lose anything and if the quitters team wins they should still lose not just get a zero!! Suspend these quitters ability to play again for an hour after they quit, first offense, 2 hours second, and 24 for 3rd! Block for a week if they repeat offend multiple times after warnings! They have RUINED this game!! It’s not fair to people that play out the game….win or lose!