8 Ball Pool‪™‬ ٤+

The ads should be enough. Game play is good but after you win some games it starts to cheat against you. I suspect that may change if you give up your Facebook info ( no way I’m doing that) or pay money ( I might if I didn’t feel cheated). As others say, you will see that some players just smack it hard and win. If you really try, you can see how the cue ball or your object ball is “influenced” by game handicap. If you like to feel cheated, this is the game for you! Update... so I leave a 2 star review and now it won’t connect. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Update 2022- definitely cheats. I have paid occasionally and fared better. I played even though I know it cheats and I got up to 5M coins! I have a 53% win ratio. But then started losing and dropped to 600k. Scratching like crazy, make 7 in a row and then oddly snookered on the 8 ball. All kinds of strange things like missing a super easy shot or terrible bounces off the rail. Playing 100k games means I had to lose 45 more than I won or I would not have gone so far backward. That means if I played 100 games, I had to lose more than 70 of those. And yet my win ratio has remained the same. It just doesn’t make logical sense that my losses could suddenly pile up like that.

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!