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WGT Golf: Realistic Golf Game
WGT · 108,083 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 75 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"
53 negative reviews mention this · 71% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Phenomenal game BUT. Once I reached level 15 - the app is stuck and forcing me to make a purchase. It doesn’t respond to any buttons but purchase. I don’t mind if it would allow me to purchase the $2.99 but it’s forcing me to purchase $59.99. I’m not able to pl…" - WillCold
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"play"
30 negative reviews mention this · 40% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Phenomenal game BUT. Once I reached level 15 - the app is stuck and forcing me to make a purchase. It doesn’t respond to any buttons but purchase. I don’t mind if it would allow me to purchase the $2.99 but it’s forcing me to purchase $59.99. I’m not able to pl…" - WillCold
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"money"
15 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Inconsistent $$$ fueled garbage. You can’t just play the game for fun and be decent. If you don’t spend money and I mean a lot, you’ll be awful. The the elevation and winds are inconsistent and are different everytime. You could hit the same club out of the fairway with th…" - DearthT88
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"spend"
12 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Inconsistent $$$ fueled garbage. You can’t just play the game for fun and be decent. If you don’t spend money and I mean a lot, you’ll be awful. The the elevation and winds are inconsistent and are different everytime. You could hit the same club out of the fairway with th…" - DearthT88
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"years"
11 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Rigged. Game is so rigged at times, game crashes a lot and takes your coins away. Game has gone down hill throughout the years" - Won’tletmeleaveareview
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"golf"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The game is fixed!!! Stay Away. Terrible odds from the start, and has become a joke, not EVEN close to real golf play!!! It’s pay to play to succeed and win, everything is way off, your drive, your irons to your putts, match ups against high end players, there clubs, no…" - Markarts
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"inconsistent"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Inconsistent $$$ fueled garbage. You can’t just play the game for fun and be decent. If you don’t spend money and I mean a lot, you’ll be awful. The the elevation and winds are inconsistent and are different everytime. You could hit the same club out of the fairway with th…" - DearthT88
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"playing"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unfair matchups. The only way to win on here is to spend more money than the person you are playing. MATCHUPS ARE NEVER EVEN!!!!" - jjvb1111
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"players"
9 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The game is fixed!!! Stay Away. Terrible odds from the start, and has become a joke, not EVEN close to real golf play!!! It’s pay to play to succeed and win, everything is way off, your drive, your irons to your putts, match ups against high end players, there clubs, no…" - Markarts
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"clubs"
9 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The game is fixed!!! Stay Away. Terrible odds from the start, and has become a joke, not EVEN close to real golf play!!! It’s pay to play to succeed and win, everything is way off, your drive, your irons to your putts, match ups against high end players, there clubs, no…" - Markarts
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"wind"
9 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Inconsistent $$$ fueled garbage. You can’t just play the game for fun and be decent. If you don’t spend money and I mean a lot, you’ll be awful. The the elevation and winds are inconsistent and are different everytime. You could hit the same club out of the fairway with th…" - DearthT88
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"been"
9 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Inconsistent $$$ fueled garbage. You can’t just play the game for fun and be decent. If you don’t spend money and I mean a lot, you’ll be awful. The the elevation and winds are inconsistent and are different everytime. You could hit the same club out of the fairway with th…" - DearthT88
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The game is fixed!!! Stay Away
Terrible odds from the start, and has become a joke, not EVEN close to real golf play!!!
It’s pay to play to succeed and win, everything is way off, your drive, your irons to your putts, match ups against high end players, there clubs, not EVEN to actually game rules and course play!!!
Graphics are holding this game together at this point.
It’s pay to play to succeed and win, everything is way off, your drive, your irons to your putts, match ups against high end players, there clubs, not EVEN to actually game rules and course play!!!
Graphics are holding this game together at this point.
Inconsistent $$$ fueled garbage
You can’t just play the game for fun and be decent. If you don’t spend money and I mean a lot, you’ll be awful. The the elevation and winds are inconsistent and are different everytime. You could hit the same club out of the fairway with the same wind and elevation and it would be different 5/5 times with the perfect strike. The game has been down for 2 days and you’re not able to login. Save yourself money and frustration and play something else
Rigged
Game is so rigged at times, game crashes a lot and takes your coins away. Game has gone down hill throughout the years
Unfair
Yeah, this is one of the biggest rigged games I’ve ever come across. It’s not even close to being fair. You play against bots way out of your league and no matter what you can’t win.
Cannnot sign in
Genuinely cannot sign in loads up fine sign in with Facebook the game just shows the load screen no overlays have tried redownloading twice. I also cannot create a new account same issue persist so how about suck a dick and fix it tha Game already tries to force you to use real money now this bs
Garbage
Complete garbage game
Horrible Inconsistent Game
This game used to be decent but now it’s terrible. I recently re-installed it after not having played it in over a year.
The physics are so inconsistent. How people are shooting 60’s in tournament conditions is beyond me. On one par 3, you’ll have no elevation and hit the club that’s correct for that distance but come up way short, even hitting it perfect. The next par 3 you’ll have an elevated green, wind in your face, then again hit the club for that exact distance and be over the green in a bunker. Speaking of bunkers, don’t hit in one. Same with rough. It’s never consistent from shot to shot. Even taking into the slope, you can never gauge even close to the right distance you need to hit it. I’m sure if I bought the 1200 credit balls it would be different, but instead I’m using the lowly 300 credit balls. Oh, did I mention the ads now? Way worse than ever. Deleting the big hunk of a dog turd and never reinstalling it again.
The physics are so inconsistent. How people are shooting 60’s in tournament conditions is beyond me. On one par 3, you’ll have no elevation and hit the club that’s correct for that distance but come up way short, even hitting it perfect. The next par 3 you’ll have an elevated green, wind in your face, then again hit the club for that exact distance and be over the green in a bunker. Speaking of bunkers, don’t hit in one. Same with rough. It’s never consistent from shot to shot. Even taking into the slope, you can never gauge even close to the right distance you need to hit it. I’m sure if I bought the 1200 credit balls it would be different, but instead I’m using the lowly 300 credit balls. Oh, did I mention the ads now? Way worse than ever. Deleting the big hunk of a dog turd and never reinstalling it again.
Too expensive
This is not a game for poors. It’s a good game, but you have to fork over the cash if you want to do well, or have a chance to compete. If not, TS. You’re stuck with beginner equipment and will be relegated to the end of the pack.
Horrible
Suck
What happened
Used to be a 5 star game but either greed or new ownership has gotten in the way. When you level up you don’t get gold coin anymore so if your wanting specific equipment you must purchase and it ain’t cheap or reasonable. Sad to say but the best golf game out there is becoming less desirable. Reading other reviews, I’ll add, yes there is a racial problem among a lot of other issues. You can level up and get good until they don’t want you to be. There is a cheaters hack witnessed it myself. At least be fair, pro vs pro not hack vs legend. The real game is hard enough but when you can’t relax over a video game….Life is too short to have to deal with this pettiness. They deleted my account because my name is Mike Hunt. Ain’t you all got things better to do than to worry about someone’s name and how it makes other people’s poor feelings get hurt. Like I said life is too short. That’s 10 minutes I’ll never get back…..?
Terrible physics.
Enough said
Sucks
This game forgot, which way the wind was blowing, and I set up for which way the wind is blowing, and then it blew the completely other way
GAMEPLAY ABSOLUTE TRASH
Instead of rolling out another BS promotion where you are charging customers $70 and ripping them off, maybe take your resources and put them into the trash gameplay. You clearly made this game to screw customers over (at some point) just so you could force them into buying new clubs. Fix the gameplay garbage.
PLEASE READ
I have played this game for nine years. This game is 100% rigged and designed to make every match close if you barely win or barely lose, you’re more likely gonna be addicted to the game the more addicted you become the more likely you are to spend money on this game. This game is designed to give you to spend money. Don’t waste your time or your money. This game is 1000% rigged and designed to make every match closed just to get you addicted to the game so that you spend more money. This is exactly why they had a class action lawsuit against them years back look into it.
Golf
It is very stressing when you lose and not even as good graphics as I was expecting it dosent even have the real physics in it, it’s all luck
Review
Way too many ads. Already a dumb game why make it worse.
Rigged not realistic
It’s rigged. You play courses that require shot shapes you can’t do that. The developers obviously have never played or watched golf. It is possible to get a ball to stick on a green sorry but it is, on this game no way burns through every time. If you play the tournaments that you have to pay for don’t bother you’ll lose. You’ll go under par for a hole or two then it’s bogey central and it’s very noticeable why, because this game totally screws you over.
Don’t waste your time
Terrible putting mechanics, unrealistic distance expectations, pay to win clubs, and just a downright rage inducing game to play. Save your time and play any other golf game on the market. Wish I could give it 0 stars.
Terribly inconsistent
Gameplay is ridiculously inconsistent. Yard meter around the greens is terribly incorrect-like perfectly good shots are double the yardage of what the meter says it should be. It is so bad it makes it absolutely NO fun to play. I can put up with the ads and paying to get better equipment, but why would I pay when the game play stinks? Ba-bye.
PAY TO WIN
There’s holes where guys with drivers and wood they bought can reach it in 2, but with a regular set you can’t even get there in 3. No matter what there’s a clear ceiling if you don’t spend money, so I wouldn’t waste your time if you don’t plan on dropping $100 on a game
Cheap
This game is expensive to play and now they are making the players watch commercials before every match
Unfair matchups
The only way to win on here is to spend more money than the person you are playing. MATCHUPS ARE NEVER EVEN!!!!
Scam
This is now the second time I go to log in and all the sudden my profile can’t be found and have to make a new one. Usually happens after I cave and decide to spend a few dollars.
I have never played a game where this has happened
I have never played a game where this has happened
Scam
They allowed me to make purchases. Then they closed my account. Total theft of my money. They refuse to refund. No other way to look at this other than a crime was committed. Any lawyers out there?
Junk
Pay to win. To many bot’s. Fake, fake game.. don’t spend money on this game..
Showdown is luck of the draw when there are tie scores
The play itself is good however they need to reevaluate how they supposedly break ties. The tie break algorithm is broken and the only response, after giving them detail showing them how it’s broken, is simply sending me the same list for tie breaks in the game.
I sincerely believe there is a hidden tiebreak criteria towards the top of the list.
MONEY SPENT ON THE GAME.
Just be honest WGT, I’ve spent $0.00 so I’d understand being slighted for that reason.
FIX IT AND I’LL CHANGE MY RATING!
I sincerely believe there is a hidden tiebreak criteria towards the top of the list.
MONEY SPENT ON THE GAME.
Just be honest WGT, I’ve spent $0.00 so I’d understand being slighted for that reason.
FIX IT AND I’LL CHANGE MY RATING!
Pay to play
Trash game where the best players are ones who spend the most money. The physics are very quirky, and what may seem like a good shot sometimes isn’t.
Horribly inconsistent..need to pay
The game has such ability to be good but it is Horribly inconsistent. Wind affects some shots not others, distance is an absolute mess with length of the clubs you hit never the same. After all these years this game should be soooo much better!
Rip off
If I’m not losing balls why am I out?
Absolute garbage
The app doesn’t “require” purchases. It just pairs you with people that spend $ on clubs and ball so that there is no way to win UNLESS you spend $
TRASH APP
TRASH APP
Multiplayer
cant play with friends until a certain level
Recent Update is Trash
Lipouts are now a consistent issue. Wind against will cause you to be way short on your shots even when compensating, however, wind behind you will launch your ball way past the hole and hard to hold the green, even when trying to play it short. Not sure what they did in this most recent update, but the inconsistency of accuracy has increased tenfold and it’s not as much fun to play anymore. My averages are in the low 60s, so I’m a decent player, but the inconsistencies have caused the frustration level to increase significantly and I really don’t want play anymore.
Deleted due to ads
Awful ads now before every round or match. No chance I am sitting through those to play. Deleted the app and won’t be downloading again.
Greedy B@st@rds
They set up algorithms to frustrate you just enough to spend more and more and more time
Freaking Ads
I get needing to sell Ads for revenue but holy geez. I have had this game for years but stopped playing so much when they added the huge ads before you can even get to the playing part. Thought I could just ignore it for a few minutes but they are so bad now that I can’t do it anymore. I just deleted the game from my phone. Too bad. Liked the game.
Randy Hess
This game with the new owners have destroyed this great game. The GREED that is shown bye these new clowns who don’t care about the game. The numbers are WAY down. Just ask ChatGPT. Game is in serious trouble of collapsing. ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC WGT. PAY 2 PLAY is off the chart
Decent game
Decent enough game but wants contact info to play simple tournaments. We have enough spam mail and callers in today’s world. Better to just sign up for Apple arcade and play the real golf game.
No title
This game is terrible. Not a real players, way too many robots. My opinion the winds are way too strong and they’re not consistent one time. They will affect your ball another time. They have no effect at all makes it hard to judge how to play.
Ads
I spend more time watching ads than playing this game. I’ve been playing for years but it has gotten sooo incredibly bad, it may be time to move on.
Primark ruins it
I get that there are ads. But Primark advertising sucks. Ruined the game and I’m gone.
Ads galore!
I gave up after repeatedly forced to watch add for something I would never purchase. This game has been RUINED!
Adds
Nothing but adds. You can’t even hardly play!
Game problems
You download the game and it doesn’t want to open
Can’t go back in
I did not play for a month because of ads but then when I went to go back in it said my internet connection was poor when I had full bars
App sucks
Won’t allow me to make a password. B.S. deleted app
NOT EVEN VEGAS ODDS!
Here’s a game which is overly priced by greedy developers!
Players can look forward to less than even odds! The game doesn’t offer an even return. You must bet 500 coins to win 400, or bet 10000 to win 8000. What kind of gambling odds are these? At least offer even money.
NOPE, The game is designed to deplete the players purse, and that’s not even counting the ca$h required to upgrade your clubs and buy balls, which these developers obviously don’t have. If the game locks up you are screwed out of your coins spent from their error! This game freezes 3 out of 5 times when on stroke play with three players or more. I don’t know how they calculate earned XP points, because one game earns 250, then the next, like 35! There is no penalty for players who quit in the middle of a round and your coins are gone as a result. Unfair, unbalanced and unnecessary.
Players can look forward to less than even odds! The game doesn’t offer an even return. You must bet 500 coins to win 400, or bet 10000 to win 8000. What kind of gambling odds are these? At least offer even money.
NOPE, The game is designed to deplete the players purse, and that’s not even counting the ca$h required to upgrade your clubs and buy balls, which these developers obviously don’t have. If the game locks up you are screwed out of your coins spent from their error! This game freezes 3 out of 5 times when on stroke play with three players or more. I don’t know how they calculate earned XP points, because one game earns 250, then the next, like 35! There is no penalty for players who quit in the middle of a round and your coins are gone as a result. Unfair, unbalanced and unnecessary.
Rip off
This is the most crooked game out there there is no customer support support i’ve been playing for about six years and I have spent a little over 100 the tournaments wow what a joke I have played in every tournament for the last three years and I have not once made it to the top 10 and I have asked every opponent that I’m playing. Have you made it to the top 10 they all say no there is your proof or can I mention you’ll watch your ball move just before it gets into the hole this game picks and chooses who’s gonna win it’s a joke
Match ups ridiculous
DON’T SPEND MONEY! As soon as you drop money into this game your match ups with other players change drastically. I am a LvL 73 and am constantly being matched with LvL 100+ players. If there is a lower player match up then that player has spent hundreds on equipment. The devs do this so that your coins drain fast and you are compelled to spend more money. Ridiculous ripoff game.
I QUIT!!!
After years of playing and reaching level 117, I’m tired of the opponents getting better shots than me. No matter what adjustments I make, it’s to no avail. Tired of opponents approach shot land in a foot or two from the hole while I’m lucky to get within 10 ft. They sink incredible putts. I refuse to play their silly ts with so much inconsistencies. This game deserves negative stars. WGT says there is no favoritism. Just play a hack when they get 20 ft gimmies, the wind has no effect, approach shots get within feet of the hole. This game has so much BS. I will miss daily playing but my nerves and attitude will be much better.
The game sucks!
The game has changed and not for the better! I have been playing for years purchased higher end clubs and a few balls. The last few months the algorithm will no longer let you win! It is predetermined before you and your opponent ever hit the first! There is absolutely no consistency and the slider has varying speeds that precludes an honest match! Used to be fun! Now it just pisses you off! Save your money!
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Sentiment summary
88%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
7%
Negative (1-2★)