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Trivia Crack Retro Brain Games
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Top complaints - extracted from 47 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"
26 negative reviews mention this · 55% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sad. I don’t mind free games with ads but this is ridiculous" - Nathaniel Matkin
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"play"
17 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much interference. The fact that you cannot simply play against yourself is a disappointment. I am deleting this one." - who decides what is good
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"every"
12 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disaster. I had never seen anything like this before. This much advertising in the middle of every game round and after every question - awful." - 123reza123
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"trivia"
11 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "FIX UR ADS BRO. It LITERALLY takes four minutes trying to get out of some of the ads on this stupid app. I clicked the X 101 times and it keeps taking me to the App Store for whatever the ad is for. It happens every turn. It’s the most infuriating thing ev…" - tikababy17
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"question"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disaster. I had never seen anything like this before. This much advertising in the middle of every game round and after every question - awful." - 123reza123
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"turn"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "FIX UR ADS BRO. It LITERALLY takes four minutes trying to get out of some of the ads on this stupid app. I clicked the X 101 times and it keeps taking me to the App Store for whatever the ad is for. It happens every turn. It’s the most infuriating thing ev…" - tikababy17
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"questions"
7 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Boring, easy Adware. Questions are way too easy and repeat. Full of ads" - Student #7373627
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"money"
7 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Greed Like You’ve Never Seen. Trivia crack is such a good game at it’s core. Unfortunately, to reach that core, you have to peel back 10 onion layers of constant pop-up advertisements and in-game purchases. To remove ads from this game, you have to pay a MONTHLY SUBSCRI…" - Hunter Bradley
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"play game"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
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"crack"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Greed Like You’ve Never Seen. Trivia crack is such a good game at it’s core. Unfortunately, to reach that core, you have to peel back 10 onion layers of constant pop-up advertisements and in-game purchases. To remove ads from this game, you have to pay a MONTHLY SUBSCRI…" - Hunter Bradley
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"people"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Greed Like You’ve Never Seen. Trivia crack is such a good game at it’s core. Unfortunately, to reach that core, you have to peel back 10 onion layers of constant pop-up advertisements and in-game purchases. To remove ads from this game, you have to pay a MONTHLY SUBSCRI…" - Hunter Bradley
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"answer"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "More ads than game. Answer a question…Ad….Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question…Ad….Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…" - MissChargers619
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Too much interference
The fact that you cannot simply play against yourself is a disappointment. I am deleting this one.
Sad
I don’t mind free games with ads but this is ridiculous
Disaster
I had never seen anything like this before.
This much advertising in the middle of every game round and after every question - awful.
This much advertising in the middle of every game round and after every question - awful.
Ads
It’s ridiculous how many ads there are. Ruins the game.
WARNING DO NOT BUY ANY LADDER REWARDS
If you are buying the ¢99 ladder reward for the Free “No Ads” tier be aware that it is only for 24 hours only. It is blatantly misleading to scrape ¢99 off of anyone who thinks they got a good deal.
Boring, easy Adware
Questions are way too easy and repeat. Full of ads
So bad.
Too many ads, boring questions, too many pop up’s just let me play the game! Don’t download you’ll just delete in a few days.
FIX UR ADS BRO
It LITERALLY takes four minutes trying to get out of some of the ads on this stupid app. I clicked the X 101 times and it keeps taking me to the App Store for whatever the ad is for. It happens every turn. It’s the most infuriating thing ever. I have never left a review before, but I am because I need this to be fixed. You have to click it in the most perfect orientation or it’ll take you to the App Store. Ridiculous. Also chill on the ads. This is a multi million dollar app that has been around for YEARS. I am trying to play trivia, not fund the continuation of the entire company. Thx
Plagued with ads
Honestly a fun fun game to play. However, good luck with all of the forced ads. I hate apps that force ads, it waste my time and I lose interest in the game.
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Riddled with Ads
After every single turn you have to watch an ad. It’s ridiculous and totally ruins the game play. It’s quicker to close the app and restart after every turn than watch the ad. I downloaded it to play the game, not watch ads. Absolutely awful.
Questions don’t make sense.
What size ball do you need for basketball?
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Large
Clearly these are not ‘sizes’ of basketballs and the fact that someone posted this question and it was put into the game but the excellent trivia questions I suggest never make it. I am going to in download this game most likely. This isn’t trivia whatsoever.
Large
Small
Medium
Large
Clearly these are not ‘sizes’ of basketballs and the fact that someone posted this question and it was put into the game but the excellent trivia questions I suggest never make it. I am going to in download this game most likely. This isn’t trivia whatsoever.
Ads Ruined this Game
This game use to be so much fun but now it’s nonstop ads for things no one wants to download. It’s extremely frustrating and ruins the whole experience.
Greed Like You’ve Never Seen
Trivia crack is such a good game at it’s core. Unfortunately, to reach that core, you have to peel back 10 onion layers of constant pop-up advertisements and in-game purchases. To remove ads from this game, you have to pay a MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION. Even if you were to do this, you will be hit with more in-game pop-ups asking you for money every time you are doing something new. I truly wish this was a game I could play and recommend to people, but it is a soulless cash grab.
More ads than game
Answer a question…Ad….Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question…Ad….Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…Answer a question….Ad…
Why?
I wanted to like this game. But every time I open it up to play someone back it auto answers a question and I just lose a turn. Despite me only opening the game. It’s infuriating
Poor and greedy design
The entire nature of the UI of this game is designed to keep children or impulsive people glued to the screen at all times in an effort to get them to spend money. Everything is flashing at you or begging for your attention with exclamation marks and pulsing images. There is an ad on your screen at all times, including full screen pop up’s occasionally.
There are also paid loot boxes in the game which most certainly promote gambling in children and other impulsive people. While this scheme exists in many games of its type, it’s just icing on the cake with all of the other blatant attempts to milk money out of the player.
Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that everyone needs to make money to pay for server costs and staffing and such, but when you already have plenty of other games on the store (all tagging on the original success of trivia crack), there is likely no need for such an aggressive money scheme for any reason besides greed.
The UI itself is also quite unintuitive, with an unclear system on viewing active games, and the always viewable option on the main menu existing only to start new games. While I understood this quite quickly, I currently have 8 active games with a friend who didn’t understand this. Also there is no option to turn off random games being started with you via a random person. If I do not want to start a game with a random person online, don’t send me invitations to do so. Whether they searched for me or found me by pressing the random button, I would like a setting that disables this.
Some of the trivia questions are good, but some of them are very bland or of a low knowledge level to the point where you don’t need to know the answer 100% to answer and it just feels free. Some questions I’ve found to not even fit their respective categories.
There are also paid loot boxes in the game which most certainly promote gambling in children and other impulsive people. While this scheme exists in many games of its type, it’s just icing on the cake with all of the other blatant attempts to milk money out of the player.
Now don’t get me wrong, I understand that everyone needs to make money to pay for server costs and staffing and such, but when you already have plenty of other games on the store (all tagging on the original success of trivia crack), there is likely no need for such an aggressive money scheme for any reason besides greed.
The UI itself is also quite unintuitive, with an unclear system on viewing active games, and the always viewable option on the main menu existing only to start new games. While I understood this quite quickly, I currently have 8 active games with a friend who didn’t understand this. Also there is no option to turn off random games being started with you via a random person. If I do not want to start a game with a random person online, don’t send me invitations to do so. Whether they searched for me or found me by pressing the random button, I would like a setting that disables this.
Some of the trivia questions are good, but some of them are very bland or of a low knowledge level to the point where you don’t need to know the answer 100% to answer and it just feels free. Some questions I’ve found to not even fit their respective categories.
TO MANY ADs
You can’t let lose the turn every time u fail to answer quiz, a ads will appear every time , so annoying!
Hard core adult casino
All the money grab trash gets in the way of using the app. It’s a mess.
TOO MUCHHH ADS 🙄
TOO MUCHHH ADS 🙄
Too many ads and photos
Far too many ads, the app is practically unusable and extremely frustrating. Additionally, why on earth does a trivia game have so many photos. Don’t just show a photo of a film director and ask who he is, instead mention a couple of movies they’ve produced and then ask who they are, that is how trivia should work.
Ads
It has ads in the middle of a game. Not worth the download
Ads and pay to win
The game is basically an ad every other turn. You could use in game currency to buy extra turns. I used to love trivia crack original but dang the game has sold out really hard.
Terrible
No matter what username I try to use it always says invalid, and there is no option to upload a picture.
Unfair
Playing with friend. He consistently keep spinning a crown. Every single time. This is not luck or chance. I only spin science. There is something weird going on , clearly some bug in this version. Needs to be fixed.
Adds adds adds
Its a great game gameplay wise, but nothing is worse than getting an answer wrong and then being punished by thirty seconds of an ad that takes 4 clicks to get rid of
Ads
Way to many ads
Ads Galore
I recently reinstalled trivia crack 2 to play with my friend and neither of us could bear to finish even one game. After every round there is an ad. Want to play a different game mode? Ad. I remember when the first one came out you could play as long as you wanted. Sad to see that this company is so greedy as to guy its player-base by including an ad after every single round. Have some shame.
10% trivia 90% ads
Title says it all- not worth your time
Too many prompts
You bombarded me for a review here ya go
Takes to long to download
It’s taking to long to download I’m trying to play whit my friends and it’s taking forever
No comment 😑 by Pomnifan333
Well,there is one.It’s stupid that you have to actually pay with actual money to get more gold bars to revive yurself ! I hope the trivia crack creators see this,not some poor,innocent people 😥
I am sorry for the people seeing this.Except the Trivia Crack creators.Y’all aren’t sorry at all,are you?
I am sorry for the people seeing this.Except the Trivia Crack creators.Y’all aren’t sorry at all,are you?
To many adds
I should get an add within 30 seconds of playing the game just because I got an answer wrong. I feel punished by my mistakes due to the add playing every single time I miss a question. The whole point of the game for me it to learn while I play. Having adds when you fail a question is absolutely negative incentive and make people get off the game rather then stay and play. You would make more money if you used less add and just relied more on in app purchases.
Approved and Rejected Buttons Don’t Work
When I try to check the status of my questions in the Question Factory, the approved and rejected buttons do not work when I select them. So I can’t even see which questions I got approved or rejected. Also, when I select the under review button I can only see two of my questions. I refuse to play this game any more until the devs fix this.
Too many ads
ADS!!!
Pay to win trash
The game would be legitimately good if it didnt ask 5 dollars every time you load in or bug you with ads after watching 3 ads i get you need to make some money to keep going but 10 to 6 bucks for a nothing burger of items that do nothing plus 10 lives and i have to wait 15 minutes to play again why even bother especially when the questions i get are ridiculously specific on a subject ive never seen or even had to patients to watch or ask questions and its in the metric system but it has the correct answer for my region but its wrong because theyre not using the same system as me like yes a marathon is 42 kilometers but its 26 in burger freedom units trash game.
All ads all the time
There’s very little game play. 10 seconds for a question then a 1 minute ad. Repeat.
Don’t play this game
It’s an Advertisement filled mess. Don’t waste your time.
Don’t waste your time
If you’re playing with a friend, whoever goes first only gets to win 3 characters and then the second person can go in and win everything so it’s impossible either way. Also the questions were too easy and very repetitive
Fix the error
The message “an unexpected error has occurred. We’re working to fix it soon” popping up whenever I try to play a game through my iPhone for more than 2 hours. I really enjoy playing this game but y’all need to fix the error as soon as possible because it’s getting annoying not able to play any classical mode game.
Ad and Pay-to-Play
Used to be a very fun game that ruled the App Store for a long time. Now all they want is money. Downloaded it and played for just a few minutes before I was slammed with ads and pressured to purchase in-game add ons.
Ad minefield
Literally shows me an ad every other question. Not to mention the micro transactions shoved in your face at every turn.
Fun Trivia
Waaaaaaay too many adds other rigmarole junk that’s not needed. Just trivia games is what the people want.
A nugget of what I want and a mountain of what I don’t want.
The scene is clogged with pointless options that I do not want or care to see. You have to click through several ads/offers from the game each time you play it. You get pulled into games by strangers and it gets treated the same as a game you actually want to play. This app is a hellscape of attention stealing distractions. Too much like crack, not enough like trivia.
Game constantly crashes
For some reason I will be in a middle of a match with a friend and it just turn off for no reason having me start the match all over again it is very frustrating
Ads are insane and take so long
I remember this game from many many years ago, it’s a blast but there’s so many ads it’s just turns me off the game. Developers don’t realize people will just delete the app.
Total mess
Ads and purchases everywhere. Impossible to enjoy playing
Sentiment summary
92%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)