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Words With Friends Loses Support for Android Honeycomb
While the details surrounding this remain murky, we can confirm that the popular Scrabble-like game, Words With Friends, is no longer available on the Android Market for Android Honeycomb devices. And the interesting part is, Zynga’s support team apparently has no idea what’s going on.
AndroidPolice first reported on the disappearance earlier today and one look at the Android Market on a Honeycomb tablet confirmed that game is no longer available. Worse off, Zynga support isn’t being helpful whatsoever:
Thank you for contacting Zynga With Friends Customer Support!
Currently, Words With Friends and Chess With Friends are only supported on Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) and Android devices. We are working to support other devices and hope to provide access to our players using these other devices in the near future.
You can follow us on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/WordsWithFriends and
https://www.facebook.com/ChessWithFriendsThank you for the inquiry!
Kind regards,
Gavin
Zynga With Friends Customer Support
Uh, OK. That doesn’t really explain why the game worked two days ago with Honeycomb but apparently now isn’t compatible with it. So, like we do with all of these mysterious stories, we want to inquire.
Can anyone see Words With Friends on the Market with their Honeycomb tablet? Does the application even work anymore? Let us know in the comments and we’ll see what we can dig up in the meantime.
John
06/29/2011 at 2:39 am
Installed and running (poorly) on my Transformer
Tmbear
07/01/2011 at 12:26 am
Worked fine on my Acer 500 for past 6 weeks and today says need to update but says incompatible with device. Game does not appear in the android market.
Joeys110
07/01/2011 at 2:02 am
Same here. Can’t play anymore because its trying to force and update, but it doesn’t show up in honeycomb android mkt.
And the web version won’t let me install on my galaxy tab10.1
Joeys110
07/01/2011 at 2:02 am
Same here. Can’t play anymore because its trying to force and update, but it doesn’t show up in honeycomb android mkt.
And the web version won’t let me install on my galaxy tab10.1
Jjo1123
07/01/2011 at 9:33 pm
same with me on acer a500. has apple had a go at zynga??? maybe it was becoming too popular and allowing ipad users to join the real world
Toddo4884
07/04/2011 at 2:35 am
G-slate not working since the mandatory update. I downloaded the older version which works fine. The upgrade pop up keeps stopping me from making moves,
Kimberly Rockwell
07/11/2011 at 7:19 am
Used to work. Now requires an update on my droid htc, but cannot update.
Basically, another zinga “win.”
They will never take responsibility for any of their programming stupidity, and every person that works for zynga should commit collective suicide for their tard-like incompetence. But they won’t because their mommies all told them they were REALLY SMART and they believe it.
Um, zynga? Mommy lied. Either that or she was too stupid to know the difference.
(former) WWF addict
01/10/2012 at 5:02 pm
A Dec 29 Words with Friends software “update” once again made it incompatible with tablets running Honeycomb. The game force closes every time it is opened, and uninstall-reinstall cycles don’t fix anything.
You should check out the comments in the Android Market for more detailed user complaints.
The whole point of social games like Words with Friends is to get us sad people addicted to them. Why isn’t user misery be a top priority for these people? How is it possible that Zynga has not fixed the problem in 12 days?
Words with friends cheat
02/09/2012 at 7:27 am
I just got the Words with friends on my iphone, so much fun ..Oh man, this game has given me so many hours of fun. I usually don’t cheat, but there are times that I gotta use the ANAGRAMMER, google it my peeps!”
JJ
11/01/2013 at 11:49 am
Not getting any responses to my support e-mails