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Millions Stop Playing Draw Something

It seems that the level of entertainment players receive from Draw Something might be drawing pretty thin at this point.

Only a few months ago, Draw Something seemed like the hottest app on the market. Now, the Pictionary-like mobile app is loosing players by the millions. Zynga bought Draw Something creator OMGPOP for nearly $200 million in March, but according to BBC News, WebMediaBrands data suggests that almost five million daily users have abandoned the game over the past month.

I know I stopped playing, and went back to Infinity Blade II. What are you playing on your phone right now?

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  • I started playing because ONE friend sort of demanded I play with her. After a couple games I lost interest and the time between turns went from hours to days to weeks... I haven't even looked at it since late March I think. I played probably ten rounds total.

    It didn't seem like it was suited to the small-ish screen of my phone and I have no practical reason to get a tablet so it's a game that just didn't quite do it for me.

    I don't play any games on my phone now. There was a nice one called Hex Defense that entertained me but I completed all the stuff in that eventually.

    Words with Friends lost my interest long ago--either I always beat a person or they always beat me. Angry Birds was mostly trial and error hoping that the iffy physics in the game would eventually swing in my favor. Had Dead Space but touch screen controls just weren't responsive enough for it to be enjoyable for me. Cut the Rope eventually stumped me and so I just stopped playing. Game Dev Story got boring pretty quickly. And aside from the supposedly fun RPGs (which were clunky and full of way too much text and obtuse story for a 5 minute bout of play) there isn't anything else I've bothered with.
  • It blows because you can't log into your account. I KNOW I'm not the only person with this problem. Being a hater of the corporate ploy that is Facebook, i chose to play Draw Something with an email, and it constantly says invalid login info, when i know for a fact it is correct. I have read many forums on this, no one can solve it, accept for OMGPOP themselves, who seem to not give a crap, especially considering it was fine UNTIL the update. Ridiculous. Thank god for Mass Effect draw something can suck it

  • I used to adore that sport on my galaxy telephone, then I've each a iphone and its horible on that cellphone so I have not tried once more considering. I detest my apple iphone current market compared to your android market.

  • I loved it, but wanted more from it - like leaderboards (weekly and monthly), be able to post my amazing (**) drawings to FB or Twitter... I like simple concepts, but this one forgot to promote itself through boards and social connections.

    Plus, I hate Zynga with a passion. Selfish bastards. I also stopped playing when they bought it. Hope it burns, Zynga

  • I'm still playing it, but there's not much to the game, which is why I'll probably stop soon

  • All of those mobile games lose steam eventually. Unless the developers are willing to give it updates or make sequels, people will stop caring. Reason why I believe mobile games could never take the place of actual full length video games.

  • I still play this whenever someone else sends me a drawing.  But lately I've been playing Pandemic 2.5.  I've eradicated the Earth several times since yesterday and I can't stop O_O

  • My wife and I still play it, but my interest has been waning as of late.

  • I am a statistic.

  • Really? They bought form them? Okay for one thing. Zynga has some bad games and stuff. Maybe if it gets suckier I'll uninstall this app and go back to playing Temple run on my Droid phone.

  • Maybe if they offered easier things to draw people wouldn't be exiting in droves.

    I swear to God one of the options I was given to draw was Rhiana. How the **** do you draw that? My friend introduced me to this game and it was all right in the beginning, but now it's boring and the majority of our drawings break down to just writing out clues as to what it is which defeats the purpose of a DRAWING game.
  • I own www.drawsomethingcheats.com which was at the number 1 rank in Google in 2 months and can unfortunately agree that millions of players stopped playing gradually.

    The site at its highest point had 65.000 daily visits and is now not even remotely close to that.

    I dont think it will pick up again but I hope Zynga has a good synergi in store for their next game.

  • rofl XD

  • I am absolutly the worst Draw something player ever so im glad people will stop bothering my tablet