PogoReviews 302

Don't join Pogo unless you love daily frustration. The games do not load, on Explorer, Edge, Firefox etc. I have been a member for awhile now and am quitting my membership before it comes due again. The people who run Pogo do not care how bad it is. They never give any technical support when you ask for it. They say games don't run because my Flash is out of date, even though I have the newest version installed. I have Windows 10 and they say my operating system is out of date and no longer runs their games. Baloney! Do not join, you will be very, very sorry you did. When we joined they had a lot of members but when they interfaced with Facebook, everything went bad. They now have less that half the members they used to have. I have lost total interest in Pogo because it is such a waste of time on something that is broken and never works.

Won't even run a simple game like Texas Hold Em. Fix your $#*!.(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)(´ω)

Outdated games aimed at the elderly. Pogo presumes we all have a mentality of a 3 year old. Very difficult to communicate with staff; they respond in a condescending manner and if you are critical they can ban you from forums. High yearly membership cost for which you get to win worthless tokens and make up little avatars and collect stupid badges. (not real badges-- virtual badges.) To top that off- you can actually gift those badges to your loved one for Christmas or send them to friends Paid member are forced to buy things for cash if they like a game and want to play it. As lame as it gets. Stay away.

Still uses an outdated NPAPI plugin in Java that was no longer recognized by all the major browsers due to security reasons back in 2015. I have called customer support and they told me to try Google Chrome, then Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and then Microsoft Explorer 11. None of them can open the games I try to open on each browser. The only browser that could open 2/3 that I tried was Explorer 11, and Chrome actually opened 1 game once, but then not again for some reason.

Games are also really boring and slow even when they do load. For instance Texas Hold'em is so bad. Just go to pokerstars.net or any poker app and its just 500% better. Also their multiplayer Monopoly game only lets you play 35 turns and then it just calculates the game from where you're at. At that rate, why even play the game? Just let us click 1 of 4 slots, and simply run an algorithm and just determine the outcome of the entire game. That ruins the game, and its NOT Monopoly at all!

I like the idea but I hate the quality that you've had to lower it to, to combine all these games together. It apparently can't be done properly and affordably with all the licences you have to pay to get these games.

There's not even a simple difficulty option for games like checkers. You can't choose easy, medium, hard for the cpu (which I always have to play against because there also aren't very many players in some of the games, making it very very long of a wait to get an opponent).

By the way, sitejabber.com gave me this stupid cat avatar even though I chose nothing. Way to go sitejabber. Just posting images around randomly on other peoples profiles? Very professional.

This site has a ton of games. Little by little the few I saved stop working. I'm down to only a small handful I actually play, one of them is called mahjong escape. Not long ago when you try to get on that game, the site sends you to an unrelated game. And good luck trying to find a way to report this. They do have a forum board but it's only user to user support. This is on their end so users can't do anything. Some people can get on, but reports of this glitch are many and there is no help to be found. Searching through google, (pogo is run by EA games) I managed to come up with a support contact page and submitted a ticket. To which I get back, in part,
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"If you need an immediate fix to continue playing a game, go back to EA Help and select a topic other than Report a bug."

So if you have encountered a BUG you cannot send in a BUG REPORT?
How stupid is that?
A game linking into another game is a glitch ON THEIR END. It has nothing to do with browsers, cookies, cache or any of the usual nonsense support always sends. It's a bad link. Some programer was asleep and goofed. But with no way to contact anyone, there it sits.

And people actually PAY to be "premium" members on here?

Companies who make communication with their own customers impossible or next to impossible will always get a zero rating from me.

Oh. I have had this same issue with games I bought and installed onto my computer. Support is nowhere to be found. I have avoided buying ANYTHING from EA games for a long time now. They just don't get it.
Play free, what little you can, or find something better somewhere else.

I have been a member for some ten years and posted a joke which was deemed not politically correct and was warned, I bet it was not even a club member who reported me. I will not be told what jokes to tell and who to tell them too. Snowflakes can get lost. I have been a club pogo member and spent a lot of money on the site and this is how they treat paying customers. I have appealed and have heard nothing, sort it out or you will lose the few remaining customers you have left. While I still live in the West and we have freedom of speech here and not Sharia Law, I will use my rights. Humour and Levity are not offensive among my friends, only to the serially offended