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Connect Word: Association Game
Hitapps Games · 299,588 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 44 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
27 negative reviews mention this · 61% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Insane amount of ads. I see reviews saying there are ads after each level while I get them 2 or 3 time PER level and 90% are not skippable. Plus ads on the bottom during the game now play sound. Yes it's free but even I have my limits. I wo…" - Chris Boothe
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"play"
15 negative reviews mention this · 34% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Insane amount of ads. I see reviews saying there are ads after each level while I get them 2 or 3 time PER level and 90% are not skippable. Plus ads on the bottom during the game now play sound. Yes it's free but even I have my limits. I wo…" - Chris Boothe
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"level"
10 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Way too many ads. Between levels? Fine. Ad breaks in a level? That's an uninstall" - Ben Laforet
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"levels"
7 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Way too many ads. Between levels? Fine. Ad breaks in a level? That's an uninstall" - Ben Laforet
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"without"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Insane amount of ads. I see reviews saying there are ads after each level while I get them 2 or 3 time PER level and 90% are not skippable. Plus ads on the bottom during the game now play sound. Yes it's free but even I have my limits. I wo…" - Chris Boothe
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"playing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Insane amount of ads. I see reviews saying there are ads after each level while I get them 2 or 3 time PER level and 90% are not skippable. Plus ads on the bottom during the game now play sound. Yes it's free but even I have my limits. I wo…" - Chris Boothe
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"hints"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the cost of buying hints has skyrocketed. its impossible to earn more hints. the biggest piss off is when you use hints it flips to an ad and eliminates all of you paid for hints. if you try to get more hints it just gives you the same ones…" - Nancy McPhee
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"minutes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "enjoyed the actual game when I got to play it, the ads are horrible, they last for 5 minutes, most of them you don't have the option to exit when they are finished, instead they go to their website and then shuts your game down, then you ha…" - Kathy Patterson
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Slow and crashss
Way too many ads. Between levels? Fine. Ad breaks in a level? That's an uninstall
Rubbish. Too many amateur crummy ads and the groups don't match a well attached all. Avoid and find something better to do with your time.
love playing the game. but two days ago I couldn't get passed the logo screen and now back at level 1 after trying everything to get back in. lost my progress of over 360+ levels, very disappointing.
Very good game, but the obscene amount of ads are overwhelming. They are everywhere, even during a level. There is also no ad-free option, even if you pay for it. A great pity! I have to uninstall it. Very disappointing!
Used to be great. I loved this app, played it constantly. Then an update came and everything changed. The ads are annoying alone, but now theres so many that the app is so slow to respond you can barely play. You can't purchase a no ad version. Also, the app now essentially doesn't work without wifi. you can't play daily challenge without wifi, can play basic levels but can't x out of the ads. if I could purchase no ad version and be able to play without wifi, it would be great again
forced ads make game unplayable. permanent deletion
way too many ads and they take forever.
an app for ads, ads and more ads.
was great until they implemented always online to play.
I cannot play the game. It keeps telling me to connect to internet to download more, but I am always connected. Been like this for days.
game completely different from add
it used to be an offline game but now it's not. shame because it was great for travelling.
Ads, Ads, Ads. Then more ads.
enjoyed the actual game when I got to play it, the ads are horrible, they last for 5 minutes, most of them you don't have the option to exit when they are finished, instead they go to their website and then shuts your game down, then you have to wait around 3 minutes for your game to reopen then it goes to another ad, it's ridiculous...so I uninstalled your game since in a 30minute time I get 10 minutes of play time and 20 minutes of ads....a year later and no improvement your ads on other games
I loved playing this game. Most of the time I would play it with the wifi off so you can enjoy it. I would turn it back on to get clues and get a few ads. Now you can't do anything without the wifi on and you get ads every couple of lines you solve. I was over 800 levels into this game and just uninstalled it since it is now too painful to play. Make a version that I can buy without ads and I would get it.
uninstalling due since new update unavailable to play offline. ridiculous.
Too many ads without a "no ads" option. The ads were ok until I reached Level 50 then my game was interrupted for an ad after EVERY SINGLE MATCH. NOT LEVEL....MATCH. I am now on level 67 and have watched 319 ads.(yes, I keep count with an ad counter). Just gonna have to delete it.
I enjoyed this game, even put up with the excessively long ads, but it has now started losing one of the answers. Up till now it has rectified itself but now I am stuck on a level and cannot get past it because I need that hidden answer to pass the level. so sadly I will stop paying it.
mid level ads. "ads make the game free to play." the ads dont need to be intrusive and impede game play. the ads dont need to make the player feel like they have a computer virus. the ads dont need to occur mid game play. skip it.
too many adds.
ads ads ads! get a hint. take a break. open app & all hints are gone so watch ads. this one is deleted.
Too much aggressive marketing here.When some ads play, they force you to download an App and can not go back to the game.
I don't mind ads usually but I cant even finish a level without multiple ads playing. im only on level 5. 2 minutes into the game an an ad pops up. try to get to the main menu and an ad pops up. so many ads.
my game keeps getting locked in a loop that keeps playing the same ad over and over and I can't get back into the game. uninstalling and re installing did nothing except lose all my progress.
Why did you change the hints process. You ruined it.I play for relaxation. coin cost makes it much less enjoyable.
The game screen doesn't fit my cell phone, so I am unable to start and play the game. I am thinking of uninstalling game
love this game but since the last update, the ads are out of control. not only are they between stages on levels but I can't even navigate to the main menu without one. it's ridiculous. have to play without wifi or data on to avoid it. it's stupid, the amount of ads now
like watching adds on TV. shame, otherwise interesting game. uninstall!
to many adds hard to play game. They try to annoy you with adds for a profit. Very intrusive. Then the glitches force you to restart. I play games for enjoyment not to stress over adds & apps that don't work right.
GAME SUCKS. After waiting through like, 20 minutes worth of ads to get power ups to help me figure this out, it took the currency I EARNED enduring the stupid ads and then didn't even give me the information to solve the puzzles. Can't even finish the second one at all. What a waste of my time. This is hands down one of the WORST games I have EVER played, even as bad as Mine sweep, I would say. And please don't bother responding to this developers. You seem to give them same canned responses.
ad breaks are only acceptable between games, not three times in the middle of one game
Got to level 1210. Game froze. Would not let me in. Uninstalled to Reinstall. Lost levels. Back to beginning. Such a Letdown
Insane amount of ads. I see reviews saying there are ads after each level while I get them 2 or 3 time PER level and 90% are not skippable. Plus ads on the bottom during the game now play sound. Yes it's free but even I have my limits. I would gladly pay 5 bucks to play without them but there is no option to do so. After 125 levels and increasing unskippable ad breaks I can sadly no longer say I enjoy playing this particular game.
the cost of buying hints has skyrocketed. its impossible to earn more hints. the biggest piss off is when you use hints it flips to an ad and eliminates all of you paid for hints. if you try to get more hints it just gives you the same ones it already had...ready to find a different version of this game
The puzzles are entertaining. But at some point, the ads started appearing several times during the middle of a puzzle. They weren't so obviously intrusive before. I'm not sure if they only occurred in between puzzles previously or what. I wish I could pay to remove them.
the game is nothing like the ads
I am terribly disappointed in the latest update. I can no longer play offline. I contacted support, twice, explaining the exact issue, including the exact wording of the message in the app. Both times I received the generic "Connect to the internet/restart the game/clear cache . . ." all of which I had already done. I can only conclude no one reads the requests for support. Until this problem, I truly enjoyed the game. But it can no longer be played offline
Would give it 4 or 5 stars, but the ads are HORRIBLE. I don't mind watching a short ad, but these are long, interrupt the game mid-level, and you have to do three different things to get back to the game. I was playing offline, but they just updated so you can't play the daily game offline. I will be uninstalling it.
You have to watch ads to get points for hints. Can't select which hints you want, so you have to use LOTS of hints, which means about eight to ten minutes worth of ads to finally get a useful hint. Sometimes the ads have a software hiccup, and you are thrown out of the game. When you return, ALL the hints you watched previous ads to get have disappeared. and in order to get to another useful hint you waste another ten minutes. LOTS of ad time not commensurate with game time.
uninstalled because ads
many of the puzzle references make no dang sense
Could be good but the ads for 5 minutes at a time kill it.
I've sent you a picture of the problem and it still keeps happening!!!! I get a blank square and the tile on either side has 2 words!!!! NOW ya'll took away the ability to buy packages of hints!!!! COME ON!!!!
Sentiment summary
89%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)