Fantastic Update To A Great Game!

People who voice their complaints about apps in reviews are essentially screaming at billboards. This is not how you help, or get anything fixed, or get answers to any questions! You are anonymous here, so no one can answer you!

If you have a complaint or a question about this game/app, you contact the person who made and maintains it. Its so easy. You go under the help menu IN the game, select "contact us", it will take you to an email page with the "To:", "From:", and "Subject:" sections already filled out for you. There will be codes on the page identifying the device you are playing on, which will help the developer answer your questions in a meaningful way. All you do is type out your complaint or question.

This apps developer responds to every single email – promptly. He is kind, thoughtful, patient, and he will help you. I promise.

And my suggestions and complaints, I believe, have helped to bring about the new, more readable look of the board and chat screen! I am thrilled with it, and very grateful. I could hardly bear looking at that beastly gold color a moment longer. It reminded me of everything bad about the 1960s.

I am awarding the fifth star this time because this terrific developer has finally changed that horrid gold color from the board and chat screen!!! I did not ever complain about this in my reviews, but I did complain about it vociferously in my emails to the developer. And I explained why – because it was hard for this chatty old lady to read her chats! He was interested in my feedback and suggestions, and he listened. And he did something about it!

This is an absolutely stellar game, which the developer continues to improve, always attentive to user feedback. I play UpWords incessantly and I am consistently impressed with its developer.

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I have a few choice words for Hasbro, though, the company that owns the UpWords board game and that hired the developer to create this app.

A review is a place to report problems publicly that cant be solved through emails to the developer. I have emailed my complaints about censorship many times, but Hasbro persists in their censorship like a crusading evangelist on a hopeless mission to stop people from writing or seeing the letters s-h-i-t in that order, or – God-forbid – f-a-r-t, though doctors and kindergarten teachers routinely speak the word out loud! And children are taught to say it.

Hasbro:
These are legitimate English words – in common usage, in dictionaries, and in standard word lists for games – as are the many other indelicate words that you removed from the standard list because they made you uncomfortable.

[I noticed that your censorship stopped at ethnic slurs, which you retained. Perhaps you think ethnic slurs are not nearly as harmful as the letters f-u-c-k in that order. I would argue that ethnic slurs are the only words that are harmful!]

But this the wrong place to apply your personal judgements on language use. Please find a more appropriate forum in which to defend your policy of Polite English Only. Stopping people from playing legitimate English words in a word game is an unnecessary, foolish, and unacceptable intrusion.

If anyone else objects to this practice, I hope they will speak up.

MakeGrandmaHappy about UPWORDS®, v1.6.53