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Is this surprising? I've drawn an airport 7 times now.

Might seem like a trivial comment, but this is a classic case reflecting inability to service player wants. If they kept their word list updated and used a better algorithm to filter out repeat-words, they probably could have mitigated their user churn rate.

Yes, perhaps a larger word list was part of their monetization strategy - but Zynga should've realized that was a bad idea when it acquired the company. When users pay for something, there needs to be an instant sense of reward, and a noticeable lasting sense of reward. A larger word list doesn't really fall into either of those categories.



This, and the number of games I had going on at one time were the main reasons for me uninstalling it. The game was fun, up until I had 30 games going on at once.


I've had "Olympics" at least 7 times.




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