8 Ball Pool‪™‬ 4+

I don’t write reviews very often but I wanted to for this one.
First off, thanks for making it entertaining enough that I want to spend 5.00 for the pool pass. So many game programmers developed a game and just expect that the players will put out cash just because. Something I really hate... But I do have a small complaint about your game. Let’s say I’m in the middle of a 5000 game of 9 ball. A friend comes online and challenged me. I leave the game I’m playing and the matchup just keeps spinning with no connection to my friend. This is extremely irritating because the matchup never works. It cannot be that hard to make it work. Especially if the friend is right here in the U.S. I’m matched up with complete strangers from all over the world, but cannot get hooked up with a friend that is in another state..... Please fix this. And then my review will change to 5 stars. Until that time, 4 is the best I can give. Thank you.

Hello, I paid for the pool pass, and was going to collect this morning but my prize money isn’t available. It’s just showing that the next pool pass starts in 68 hours. How can I collect my prize money. If I’m unable to, the review will drop to a single star. Just saying. Thanks.

I’ve been playing this game for a few years now and have billions of coins without ever paying for new cues. In fact, have never paid a cent to play this game. That said, it’s become very evident that the vast majority of games you play are fixed. Skill is such a minor determining factor of who actually wins or loses for a material number of your games, and it’s only gotten worse over time. Over the last twelve games I’ve played, you can clearly tell that four have been computers, who all get to break and have a 100% chance of clearing the table before you have a shot. In other words, if you assume you have a zero percent chance of winning 33% of your games, you can max out at 67%. Since I win 65% of my games, I effectively beat 90+% of human opponents. That said, it is very frustrating to have to take a step back in coins every so often because of the number of bots you play. If the developers want to improve the game, it should be completely human interaction. I don’t take offense when I lose to a human player, but is very frustrating to lose millions of coins to a robot. When it happens 1 out of every 3 games, the frustration is amplified. For people who pay money to play, please heed my words that you’re wasting your time and money. Hone your skills and play for free as I do. In conclusion, if the number of bots continue to increase, my time playing this game will soon reach its end.

There’s no way to report players and it’s been issue after issue for a while. It’s quite obvious when someone lines up one of the most difficult shots you’ve seen over years and years of playing. I know of a few jailbroken editions of this game that provide a line extension so you can see where every single ball will go. Not being able to report these players just makes it so they can win time after time. Second, all breaks are supposed to be simulated and never the same as the last. 90% of the time in 9 ball, unless I break, I lose on that break. It doesn’t take much skill to use a specific break that works every single time. I’ve played for WELL over 10 years (before it even touched IOS and was only available on the miniclip website). The cheating issue and 9 ball issue are at an all time high now and I’m quite tired of it. I’ll get to 100k, 200k, whatever and then lose game after game due to the specific break. There’s also an issue in 8 ball where the ball can bounce off the back of the pocket or even go THROUGH the pocket! I’ve had this happen a few times and you quite literally can’t win unless the opponent puts in the 8 ball early. I’ve played for years because there haven’t been issues until recently. The game also turned to p2w (game pass) which is disgusting to me. “Oh you can get 5 scratchers for $2.99 or you can give us $5 and get the scratchers and a million other things, EVERY MONTH!” Fix the game that I used to love, PLEASE!