Spades *

I hope you read this and pay attention. I’ve noticed some of these issues raised before. Also, I’ve noticed no developer responses. It seems like you don’t care. I’ve got other spades games and am still deciding if I’ll permanently add this one to my folder. It’s a good game but doesn’t have a lot of options. Only the bare minimum to play the game in most cases. Two issues that effect the mechanics of playing: 1. You can’t change game settings after you finish a game. Your struck with a menu that wants you to play again with the same settings. You should have an option to go to the main page, the go to settings. Also you can’t stop a game if you realize your playing with settings you don’t want. 2. The playing of a card out of your hand isn’t smooth. Many times the card just raises up but doesn’t continue to the board. There is no reason to have a raised card, anyway. Issues with the partner bot that makes you lose: The bot Ashley is mostly unsuccessful when she bids nil yet the other bots, your opponents almost always are. This really screws up your game. She also has a problem with overbidding much more than the others. I’ve seen this in many games. I would add a star for each set of issues that are resolved. Lastly, it would be nice if at the end of the game you showed a table with the outcome of each round: bids, score, bags, penalties, etc.

The game is a regular Spades game, but I OFTEN feel like the scoring is crazy! My “team” gets dinged for points, when I’m just a good Spades player, if I do say so myself. I will have a bad hand, but manage to get a few hands, even with few Spades or Aces, and suddenly, I am scored a negative 100, or some odd number that I don’t know how in the world they got the number. If I bid “Nil”, and have Spades, I’m supposed to get 100 points extra if I don’t take any hands. Sometimes I get the 100 points, sometimes I don’t. I esp don’t understand when it takes off a “hand” points amount. I get so frustrated I quit for a few days or a week and go back. My “team” often wins, and I don’t expect to always win, but I do get frustrated when I get negative points for seemingly no reason.

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Edit* After reading other reviews I’m not sure how this game got 4.5 stars and everyone seems to have been complaining about the same thing (partner bot) for over a year yet the developers haven’t acknowledged or fixed the problem. I’m glad I’m deleting... I play this game to keep me fresh whenever I can’t play actual in person games. Like right now with the pandemic going on. However, there aren’t any settings to change game preferences, and my partner bot continuously over bids or under bids. Some times I try to under bid when I know “she’s” over bid and it’ll turn out we both just underbid which in turn makes us lose the game. It very frustrating. I’m a very competitive person, yes even against a computer game and I hate losing, especially at partner games, ESPECIALLY when I know it’s not my fault. I’ll be deleting the app until you fix these problems and also having my friends and family delete as well. Thank you!

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This game is okay at the beginning until you catch on to the bot partner. Once we are ahead she starts under bidding her hand to raise our bag score. Or if we are ahead in scoring she overbids her hand. She goes totally crazy after your win % is more than 58%. Then she throws hand after hand. I had a hand where we were up by over 300 pts with 3 bags. After the next 2 hands we had over 10 bags so minus 100 pts. She had been bidding 1 trick for about 5 hands in a row trying to get our bag score up so I had to guess how many tricks she underbid her hand and adjust my bid accordingly. Then after she bagged us we were still up over 200 pts. and she bid NIL with Ace King Queen of diamonds in her hand. So another 100 point loss. And most annoying is once she reaches her bid amount she keeps trumping hands. I’m gonna delete the app. I thought it would be fun but it’s just frustrating because it’s so manipulated to control the stats.

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Very disappointed in this app. I initially enjoyed the simple app, but having a player who purposely loses ruins it. I’ve played enough now to realize how often the partner player regularly over or under bids by wide margins when there was no advantage to it. Partner player also many times will take tricks it doesn’t need to with the cards in its hand that no real player or a properly programmed one would take pushing over the bags. Seriously, again and again. It’s getting far too frustrating when the opponent players never seem to have this issue and play more like real players, so I’ll be looking at other apps now instead. You should just call the partner player “Fool” so people know what they’re getting or reprogram it to play at the same as opponents to be fair. I want to play a real game, not have to weigh each hand just how badly the partner will play it.