RIP Chess W/ Friends
I’ve been a user/player on this app for YEARS! Finally going to ditch it. The lack of control over your own profile and inability to screen users/players is unacceptable. I’m done. Its chess, that’s all it should be. However, I’ve been harassed repeatedly by ‘players’ on a regular basis. Many of whom are either attempting to solicit bitcoin or themselves. It’s obnoxious and the app offers no solution to report them.
I’ve met a few cool people on this app out of the thousands I’ve been played over the years (which I’ll happily converse with on another app). But it’s really unfortunate that I feel the need to find another place to play the game I love because the OG devs have lost sight of the users that this app was intended to serve. RIP Chess w/ Friends…..
I’ve met a few cool people on this app out of the thousands I’ve been played over the years (which I’ll happily converse with on another app). But it’s really unfortunate that I feel the need to find another place to play the game I love because the OG devs have lost sight of the users that this app was intended to serve. RIP Chess w/ Friends…..
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NO NOTIFICATIONS FOR 3 YEARS!!!
After a recent much-needed update, they still fixed only a small portion of the issues. Notifications still not working although you darn sure get notifications if "Chess Master" wants to challenge you! Or if Tech support has replied to a message.
But NOPE! Not a single notification if a player moves or sends you a chat!!!!!
It's such a shame that in 2010 the app worked fantastic. Then it slowly degraded and with an update in February 2020 it all really went to heck in a hand basket!!!!!!! ZYNGA is sorry for not caring. How difficult can it be to repair notifications? They sure work in their "Words With Friends" app!!!! Ridiculous and takes the joy out or playing chess!!!!!
But NOPE! Not a single notification if a player moves or sends you a chat!!!!!
It's such a shame that in 2010 the app worked fantastic. Then it slowly degraded and with an update in February 2020 it all really went to heck in a hand basket!!!!!!! ZYNGA is sorry for not caring. How difficult can it be to repair notifications? They sure work in their "Words With Friends" app!!!! Ridiculous and takes the joy out or playing chess!!!!!
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Anybody Home?
Hey Zynga, are you guys still moderating and updating this app? Doesn’t look like it! About 3 years ago this app used to be really fun and reliable. Now it’s trash. Two major problems need to be fixed ASAP:
1) The app doesn’t send you notifications when it’s your move.
2) Your opponent can just abandon the game and leave you hanging there waiting for him to make a move. There is no time limit for making moves.
Easy for Zynga to fix that. Just set a day limit to five days and if the player doesn’t make a move the app should automatically resign him. The app used to do this. Now it doesn’t. Super annoying.
If Zynga fixes these two problems this app has the potential to be fun again. But right now it’s just frustrating. Because you never know when it’s your move. And games can last forever because there is no day limit. Because nobody is receiving move notifications.
Hey are there any Zynga employees reading this? You guys have ads that pop up during game play so you must still be making revenue. How about you listen to your customers and make some simple fixes to make your product more enjoyable. A response would be appreciated. Or maybe this negative review will just be lost amongst the dozens of other negative reviews for this app… Hey Zynga anybody home??
1) The app doesn’t send you notifications when it’s your move.
2) Your opponent can just abandon the game and leave you hanging there waiting for him to make a move. There is no time limit for making moves.
Easy for Zynga to fix that. Just set a day limit to five days and if the player doesn’t make a move the app should automatically resign him. The app used to do this. Now it doesn’t. Super annoying.
If Zynga fixes these two problems this app has the potential to be fun again. But right now it’s just frustrating. Because you never know when it’s your move. And games can last forever because there is no day limit. Because nobody is receiving move notifications.
Hey are there any Zynga employees reading this? You guys have ads that pop up during game play so you must still be making revenue. How about you listen to your customers and make some simple fixes to make your product more enjoyable. A response would be appreciated. Or maybe this negative review will just be lost amongst the dozens of other negative reviews for this app… Hey Zynga anybody home??
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Rife with scammers
This used to be a good, casual game to play chess. Now it is loaded with scammers. Unfortunately you can’t look at a players chess profile (games played, losses, etc) prior to playing to try to assess if they are a real player. Then when you get stuck with one and you block dr harassment then it counts as a loss. If they stop playing for some reason it doesn’t time them out so their profile sits there for months as waiting to play. I’ve watched the profile picture change from men to women and back. That has screwed up my ranking and is definitely not worth playing new people anymore. 99% will be hello what’s your name? Where are you from? I want to get to know you better? Where can we talk? Ridiculous. I have 3 people I’ve played against for many years now and that is only reason im still on the game. Don’t get started on this one because the app developers have done nothing about this along with some of the weird bugs that crop up where it is your turn but you can’t move your pieces as well as a few other annoying glitches.
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From bad to worse
This is the second time, and it will probably be my last one, that I decide to remove the game (unload the application ) from my phone. Why? I keep getting invitations to play from people that only want to chat about selling something, and the latest is that a game against a much higher ranked player that I was winning by far was misteriously blocked and assigned as a win to my opponent. I am here to have fun and enjoy the game, but these people need to be controlled and or blocked.
I have a handful of games that were abandoned by suspicious players once I decided not to chat nonsense with them. Hackers? Salespeople?
I will give the game another chance
I have a handful of games that were abandoned by suspicious players once I decided not to chat nonsense with them. Hackers? Salespeople?
I will give the game another chance
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Please fix this game!
I have played nearly 1000 games on this app with dozens of opponents. I play every day for years. Whatever you guys did on this most recent update totally blows. In my first ~900 games over many years I had exactly one corrupted game. In the last three weeks I have had 8-10. It keeps happening. I also invited two friends to play with me, had them download the game, and my first three games with each of them corrupted. They are no longer playing the game. Please Fix!!! When it is fixed I’ll give a new review.
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Scammers and System Problems
If you want scammers to constantly try to sell you crypto currency, or you want to lose games because of system issues, this is the app for you. I played on the app for about 8 years and finally deleted it because I couldn’t stand it any longer! When you tell the scammer you are not interested, they quit playing and they remain in a “pending their move” purgatory as an unfinished game. While they are not help accountable for their time to move, you are held to a strict time period. I lost games because my time ran out when the system didn’t advise me that it was my time to move (no visible evidence on the screen that it was my move).
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Buggy dark mode and heats iPhone
I’ve been using Chess with Friends for 3+ years now and while I’m happy with how many people I get to play, the app itself is terrible - and Zynga doesn’t appear to give a hoot. I reported the “invisible” text bug when trying chat while phone is in dark mode (their developer appears to have forgotten to invert it from the background) over a year ago - it’s still there.
But more worrying, I think Zynga must be using my phone as some sort of CPU node for something not related to the game. Moving chess pieces around should not take any cpu whatsoever, but whenever I am in this app, my iPhone gets hot as heck! They’re doing *something* not chess related!
But more worrying, I think Zynga must be using my phone as some sort of CPU node for something not related to the game. Moving chess pieces around should not take any cpu whatsoever, but whenever I am in this app, my iPhone gets hot as heck! They’re doing *something* not chess related!
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So many scammers on the app
I really like the app but good lord seems to be about 40% of the players are people trying to get information to get into your financial accounts. The app really needs to have a way to report these users but as with most apps they don’t seem to be doing anything to keep these people off of their platform.
If not for this I’d give them 5 stars.
Be careful who you accept a game from.
If not for this I’d give them 5 stars.
Be careful who you accept a game from.
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Glitchy App / No Bug Fixes / No Support
App has several bugs:
- When typing on chat board, you cannot see the text you’re typing until you click send.
- Notifications do not work. You just have to occasionally check the app to see if it’s your move.
- Bogus accounts start games and try to chat/scam. When you don’t fall for it, they stop playing. The game never times out. It just stays in your game queue for eternity. Reached out for help, but they said the games don’t show on their end.
- When submitted a Help Request, the feature to add a photo/screen shot does not work. It’s nearly impossible to get to the place to submit a request, so it’s frustrating to have it not work once you get there.
All this is quite disappointing for an app that I PAID FOR and used to work.
- When typing on chat board, you cannot see the text you’re typing until you click send.
- Notifications do not work. You just have to occasionally check the app to see if it’s your move.
- Bogus accounts start games and try to chat/scam. When you don’t fall for it, they stop playing. The game never times out. It just stays in your game queue for eternity. Reached out for help, but they said the games don’t show on their end.
- When submitted a Help Request, the feature to add a photo/screen shot does not work. It’s nearly impossible to get to the place to submit a request, so it’s frustrating to have it not work once you get there.
All this is quite disappointing for an app that I PAID FOR and used to work.
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Crypto scammers
I have enjoyed chess with friends for years but lately it’s all people who start a game and then message you and ask where your playing from. If you don’t answer in appropriate time they send ???. Every one turns out to be an expert in crypto currencies. It’s amazing! The worst part is, once you call them on it they won’t resign and they don’t play and you have a bunch of open games that won’t end. The only way to get rid of them is resign and take a loss… c’mon…. The funny thing is most of all these scammers can’t spell or misuse words and they are always the same words. Chess with friends…. Stop this please!
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Crypto salesmen ruined the game.
I have been playing this game since 2012, and I love it. But recently there are a lot of new accounts who just want to sell you Bitcoin, and when they find out you won’t bite, they stop playing, and you end up with many dead games still active, clogging up your list. There is no way to get rid of them without taking a loss. They used to expire. But now they just stick around forever. Zynga should fix this because it used to be a great app.
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Not what I expected
After playing words with friends for so long, I expected much more from this. Upon download, I chose to link to Facebook so I could play with friends( like the name suggests) and was severely disappointed. I linked Facebook only to find not a single one of my friends was available. Nor could I invite Facebook friends. The only person on my list of friends was some random photoless entity named Brandon. Although I do know a few Brandon’s…. This was none of them. Additionally, the user interface and options are not as customizable as one would think reading the description. I will say that the game itself works as a chess game if that’s all you want. If you expect to play with your friends, this game isn’t it.
The game needs a serious overhaul if Zynga plans on this game becoming even a tiny fraction of what WWF has become. Please address the connection and crashing issues immediately. What a shame.
The game needs a serious overhaul if Zynga plans on this game becoming even a tiny fraction of what WWF has become. Please address the connection and crashing issues immediately. What a shame.
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Could be ALOT better
Both the search and invite Facebook friends to actually play “Chess With Friends” doesn’t work. Which is annoying. What’s more annoying is that you don’t get an app notification when it’s your turn. A notification that alerts me when it’s my turn you’d think would be on the checklist when developing this app. But no my friend and I have to constantly text each other to let each other know it’s their turn. Which is super annoying super inconvenient. Would like to see these issues get fixed
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Lousy turn of events.
I love this game, but lately I have been having way too many troubles with it. Before a player would have to move within 5 days or lose. I have had players who no longer move, yet they stay onl my game. It is quite irritating. About ten of them tried to sell me on the wonders of Bitcoin Mining. When I said “Not interested” they were somehow able to disable the game. I just tried to dump the app to get rid of these non-players. I must have hit the wrong button, because now my game is active, but it is not on my screen. How do I fix these problems? I want the the game on my phone, but I want these disabled games gone. So annoying. EllieA
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New scam
Someone claiming to be a nice old lady that has a rating of 1200 with 575 wins and 43 losses but who only started playing 32 days ago is currently trying to sell me information on crypto currency that she generated with her “AI bots” designed to make my profit grow 500% “more faster”. I’ve told her I’m interested in buying her bots. This could get interesting. Will update
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They don’t know chess
And absolute waste of money if you’re planning on spending is to get rid of the ads. I had numerous games that end up as corrupt games and I’ve even had one that ended as a draw by mutual agreement when I was in a clearly winning position. When I tried to complain about this to the technical support team they could even annotate the game correctly and try to explain the rules of stalemate to me. When they don’t know the rules themselves. Once this game that I’m playing is complete I will leave this app and never come back to it ever again. I do not recommend this to anybody it won’t do nothing but stress you out.
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3 bugs that ruin games
1. Games become “corrupted” for inexplicable reasons, randomly. This has happened numerous times to games where I was winning and where I was losing. Not fun. Please fix these bugs.
2. Chat becomes invisible if iOS is in dark mode. Chat text becomes white text on a white text bubble background when iOS is in dark mode, please fix this bug.
3. Profile pics not syncing. The app does not allow profile pics to be changed (why was this feature removed?) and does not sync properly with Facebook profile pics. Please fix these bugs.
2. Chat becomes invisible if iOS is in dark mode. Chat text becomes white text on a white text bubble background when iOS is in dark mode, please fix this bug.
3. Profile pics not syncing. The app does not allow profile pics to be changed (why was this feature removed?) and does not sync properly with Facebook profile pics. Please fix these bugs.
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Please fix badge notifications
My dad and I have been playing this game for years. We love it!! But the latest update made it so that badge notifications no longer work, which obviously makes it difficult to see when it’s your turn. If that gets fixed, then I’ll gladly give this a 5 star review!!
Note to developers
The game is great and would be perfect only if it has time limit per move, I’m pretty sure everyone is tired of waiting five days for their opponent to make the next move. It gets frustrating sometimes seeing people taking advantage of it by intentionally not playing for days.
