Good App, Horrible App

I downloaded and have been playing a couple of new apps recently. One is great, one is possibly the worst I have ever encountered.


Kard Combat
I'll start with the good one. Kard Combat is made by the guy who originally created Magic the Gathering. And it shows. There are a few variations to the formula, but it's basically the same thing: two wizards battle each other by summoning monsters and slinging spells. You power your spells by using mana. Of course, given that I love Magic, this isn't a bad thing for me. I'm still getting the hang of it. There's still a few things to the strategy I'm not getting yet, but I'm still pretty early in playing it. For $2.99, you get a lot of game. Anyone that enjoys Magic or similar games, I recommend this one.


Words With Friends
Now let's move on to the horrible game. Words with Friends by those same guys that make Farmville and Cityville. I mean basically, this is Scrabble. How can you possibly screw that up, right? It has been a nightmare of an experience so far.

I started off downloading it on my iPod, and that was fine. Linked it to my Facebook account, all good. Then I made the mistake of downloading the free version for my Droid phone. First off, this should be familiar to anyone who's played Zynga products on Facebook, the advertising is RELENTLESS! Every time you make a move, you are presented with a full-page ad that you have to button-press to dismiss. EVERY MOVE! I would gladly pay money to not have to deal with that, but on the Android version you don't get that option.

Then I made mistake #2. I entered a different e-mail address than the one I use for Facebook. No matter how many changes I've tried making to my account settings, I can't get a single account now, they are split into two. And there's no way to undo anything. No, if I want to change how I log in to the game, I have to UNINSTALL the app. It's utterly ridiculous. I've deleted and uninstalled and re-installed the game on both my phone and iPod multiple times, and I can't get my accounts to merge. And now I can't get the version on my phone to synch up with Facebook at all, since there's already an account tied to my Facebook.

So if you want to play this game, DO NOT MAKE A MISTAKE ENTERING YOUR E-MAIL. And I would strongly recommend avoiding the android version altogether. Stick with the iOS version, make no mistakes hooking up your account, and you should be fine.