Golf Strike

Have played the game over 2 years, and despite the same connection issues experienced by everyone else, I’ve just continued to play for free. I had amassed a large bank of coins and gems. Twice recently, I’ve had over 4 million in coins just disappear from the account. WTH is that about! LOL! What if I’d paid for those coins!?! Today was a first for the gems. 10,000 gems….. poof! Vanished from the bank. I hope anyone playing this game doesn’t actually purchase anything from them with REAL money. It’s a fun game to play, just don’t purchase stuff. It’s easy to earn all you’d need by just playing and winning, which isn’t hard to do. The game developers have clearly designed the program to shut down and rob players, and in my case, if the shutdown theft isn’t enough, just deplete your account. Don’t know how they haven’t been sued out of existence. Add to all that, the program design particularly in the “Duel” game is hysterically cheating. The more you play, the more the program dials up shots by your fake opponent that get increasingly ridiculous. I’ve gotten good enough to Eagle most holes, so guess what? Fake opponent just shot an albatross the last 3 out of 5 games played. LOL!! The game is about you ultimately losing no matter how pathetic and obvious the cheating gets. Have fun, but you’ve been warned. Update: 6 straight albatross shots by opponent! LOL! Why doesn’t the program just come up with a notice, “you don’t get to play anymore”. LOLOLOL!! What a joke.

Update: Dropping to 1 star. I just played seven games with a $10,000 entry, won four of them and placed second in the other three. Connectivity seemed good, so I risked playing a 40,000 coin entry and was booted before finishing the first hole. Developer now owes me well over 240,000 coins, just in entry fees, probably close to half a million if you count what I would have won based on my position at the time of being booted. This isn’t accidental, it’s flat out theft. I’ve been playing for about two months now and love the game, I have spent probably $30 on gems, no issues with the purchases.I have 1 GB fiber Internet Service and a top of the wind Wi-Fi hub, never have any issues with interruptions in service and never get bumped from any of the games I play, except this one. It’s quite clear they disconnect you from games either because their server is completely unreliable or to take your coins, there is no third explanation. At this point, I would say they owe me about 200,000 coins off of disconnects that are all happening at their end. Of course they will come back with some garbage reply saying I’m being disconnected at my end, but that is patently false. It happens with such regularity, that I find myself afraid to play the higher cost courses, as I know I will be disconnected and lose my entry fee. Get it fixed, stop the intentional disconnects, I don’t really care which it is or you can kiss my purchases goodbye.

This is a good game, but I’ve lost at least 20k in the last week from games quitting randomly. It’s extremely irritating and a clear money grab so people will purchase more coins. To play. Lost another 5k so far since posting this review. Going to keep updating. DO NOT SOEND YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME. I haven’t spent any, it’s so fun it’s really tempting, but they literally just keep taking it from me by disconnecting games. I was in 2nd place in a match with potential to win 7k and got disconnected just now. When I count the money I’ve lost, I don’t include potential winnings. Only coins I lose when it disconnects my game. If I counted potential winnings lost, the number would be tens of thousands higher. Lost another 1k just now. 326pm. Less than ten min after updating this review last. Lost another 1k just now, 333pm. I was in first place, I sunk the putt on the last hole and while waiting for everyone else to finish it disconnected me. 339pm. On the third hole, in first place, I lost another 1k. This is three straight matches with an excellent opportunity to win I’ve been disconnected. That’s cost me 7500 in winnings. This game is becoming unplayable and that’s unfortunate. If not for these constant disconnections I’d probably spend money on in game items, this game is so much fun. It’s equally frustrating and I’m close to never playing again. 344pm in a 1v1 duel, as my winning chip was going into the hole, literally halfway in, the game disconnected. That cost me 2k more in winnings. I’ve lost 20k in winnings in the last hour alone. 9.5k in the last 13 minutes. 4pm - After the last review update I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. My very first match, in second place, disconnected again. Cost me another 1800. Update at 911pm - disconnecting still. I was in first by two strokes on the second hole before it cut out. 913pm it disconnected before I even teed off the first hole. Still lost my 1k though. This game is bogus. I clicked the app support link next to the review link, and the app support link isn’t even a working link. They know it’s trash. Complete money grab. 920pm another disconnection. Was in first place again.