Gamer reviews for June's Journey - Hidden Object

Its getting old. Play is not as fun. Need too many flowers, compasses to open up land. Too many identical items which just takes up island space.

-I downloaded JJ twice. Once I was almost to the end of the story (100 chapters) when in would no longer open on my tablet. Possibly the graphics became too much for a tablet. I ended up deleting it after trying for 3 days to open the game.

-The second download: I made it to the end of the game. Things changed from the first time to the second. Rewards became smaller and the (points needed to get decent decoration, etc became higher). It is hard to get decent decorations, etc without spending quite a bit of money.

-I completed a review that popped up during the game.

I stated my disappointments about the changes. Shortly after that, my game was deleted (not by me) from my computer. I was only playing to finish decorating my island how I wanted it.

-The story line is a bit far fetched, but it is a story.

What do health insurance companies and video game companies have in common? Terrible customer service.

Perhaps you’ve played a game that you enjoyed, but, when a problem with the programming occurred, you received an AI written nonresponse response back from customer service, apologizing for the issue, but not doing a thing to fix the issue, which might have cost you time and/or real dollars?

If so, you’re not alone, but one game company seems to have set the industry standard for being so callous to loyal players, Wooga, a subsidiary of Playtika out of Israel. Playtika proudly proclaims that “Founded in 2010, Playtika was among the first to offer free-to-play social games on social networks and, shortly after, on mobile platforms.”

And how did they make “free-to-play” games for mobile platforms affordable? They incentivize players to spend real money to buy nonfungible products within the game. You know, items like more energy to play longer, more keys to open doors, or, as in the case with June’s Journey by Wooga, more flowers to move further along in the storyline.

First, realize that June’s Journey is one of the best “seeking” games made because it is in full color, and 70% of the items you have to search for in an increasingly complex image are in logical places, meaning that they get placed in spots that make some sense. There are no beach balls on top of spiked fences, for instance, although you will find keys hung in odd places in some scenes.

However, Wooga’s Customer Service personnel are ruthless. Wooga itself proclaims on its website, “Our goal is to contribute to the overall vision and think from the perspective of the long term health of the company. It means you understand that the business needs are the prime directive. It requires adaptability and occasionally some degree of sacrifice.”

Yes, they admit that keeping the company profits high are their primary goal, even though, logically, repaying a customer who has lost flowers because of a programming problem should not cost the company anything to fix. Yet Wooga will seemingly go to any length not to repay players what they have lost.

Originally, when I began casually playing the game two years ago, I did not mind paying $13 a month for small items that made game play more fun. I knew, after all, that real people were creating this game, and that they wanted to be paid for their work, just like the rest of us do.

However, after several unsuccessful attempts to get Wooga’s customer service folks to even own up to the problems I encountered, I began using those funds more judiciously, only for things I really wanted in my game, not every month.

Then, after pointing out a glitch that cost me several days of play only to end without the reward I had worked hard to obtain from play, I had had enough of their refusal to honor the tacit agreement between player and programmer—an agreement they have consistently refused to honor for two years now.

So I told them I would stop paying the $13 a month I had been paying. From then on, I have played the game without using my hard earned money for anything.

Now, however, they had a severe glitch that cost me hundreds of flowers—things I need to move forward with the story, and they have steadfastly refused to reimburse my account for that loss.

If this was a realty company, even if I was investing in digital real estate, they would be bound by laws regarding their theft of my time and energy only to cheat me out of my reward.

However, my only real tool of defense against a video game company is to warn all of you about how awful and money-oriented both Wooga and their parent company seem to be.

My ideal revenge on these companies would be to have everyone who reads this review play the game, but never pay actual cash for anything. That way they still have to work, like we do to move through the game, but they would learn what it’s like not to get what you work hard to obtain.

I keep having to get out of the game and go back in even then it wont let me in very frustrating! Also if I am in the game there are a lot of times I cannot widen the screen on my phone to find objects also it wastes my energy doing this. And If I cannot play I will not contribute to it, I have a few times not anymore. They really need to fix the issues! I have complained several times now. Words with friend's works great and you do

not have to purchase anything to play. Different programing I guess Never have had any problems with other games.

I used to enjoy playing but it has now become very frustrating because it just drop off for no reason!

Shame on you Junes Journey game!! I have been with you for years! Money Money is all you look for From All of Us! Never Were You Like This When I Started With You Years Ago. My Friends and I always Loved Your Game! It Would always Make Me Happy! I am Living On Borrowed Time with With Health Problems. I don’t have the Money. So I Will Find Something that doesn’t ASK FOR MONEY? One Star is All I Will Give You! You Made Me Very Sad!! What am I Going To Do When I Have Too Sit and Elevate my legs Everyday? Margy

Get support to help the players, instead of sending them elsewhere! We need new buildings for the island, materials will start stacking up and that is no good. A lot of people can't afford to buy things because of inflation and I am one of them. I can't keep this up, plus I have a family emergency!

I was trying to win gold tin from secrets game, 4 away, actually, so now after losing g 360 diamonds, my energy, I keep getting error message. Reload. Very disappointed.

Frustrating when you can't get a questioned answer. Why are the ne lines like fairground fortune not paying 2oo bolts were played and received 28 points . Very frustrating.

Expensive little sucker. I got to finish level three, but there doesn’t seem to be. A way to level four without spending a lot of money. Real us American dollars kind of money. I don’t mind buying a game, but spending money (lots of money) to play the game isn’t in my playbook.

A lot of Reading/Google question. Lots to learn, never ending. Can be very complex n costly.

This game used to be great but it has become focused on just trying to get players to spend money. I’m thinking of deleting it.

I used to love playing June's journey. They keep raising prices and cutting back options for free stuff to help us continue to play. Recently removing Bush giving feature to a lowsy system. They keep changing this that are good and replace with crazy stuff.

So it seems I need to purchase flowers in order to move on to chapter 7. Not going to happen.This is ridiculous

Management charges about 5 times more than it should for each item.

Then they give out SUPER TINY ‘rewards’ like mail tank you of 15 coins, which isn’t close to buying anything.

Now the memoir game gives out deja vu in the memoir packs that it claims EQUAL, ARE SAME as regular snippets that can be placed immediately in a memory page.

ie, a 3-star deja vu is = to a 3-star snippet per Junes Journey and meets the ‘guarantee’ of getting minimum ‘snippets’

So you could Buy a very expensive 4-star or 5-star snippet pack-to get snippets to complete a memory page, then get only 4-star or 5-star déjà vu which can’t be used on a memory page

= false ads, bait & switch guarantee

packers

Disappointed. You can’t play without decorating. But if you can’t play then there is no money to decorate. I can’t afford to spend cash money so I just simply find it frustrating.

Ik hou van het spel, maar ik kan geen aankopen doen in de store.

Liked it better before the changes. Too many changes too quickly. Employees must be covid bored.

At times very frustrating when my score in hidden objects is reduced after achieving a higher score.

Qooga has become Greedy. Unless you are willing to spend real money, you can't get great decorations for your island. If you tell them you like certain decorations like the trees, they raise the prices....if you spend more money, the raise the prices. Prices are different for each player. Remember, the more you spend, the higher the prices.

To soon to tell I just started so confusing.

Waste of time. Too many glitches. Too many ads. Unless you want to buy the nice stuff don't waste your time. They don't even give you a shot at some of the best stuff unless you kick down $$$.

I like the game but I think I will quit because I don’t want to spend money on it if that is what it takes to advance levels. I am on level 105 and can’t get to level 106.

I loved this game until the challenge of proceeding forward in collecting compasses became markedly prohibitive.....not fun anymore ....frustration has taken the place of a fun game

I’m not sure yet. The fact that you have to buy things to keep getting flowers and you run out of space to put stuff you didn’t really want to buy but had to so you could keep playing the game. That kinda sucks.

I love the game but not the support. I need to uninstall & reinstall. One star because of poor service. 5 stars for a good game.

It’s ok, but this situation is about to make me delete the game!

I've loved this game for several YEARS ans spent quite a few dollars. I'm getting upset as all my islands are done, my ship of extra is full and all I have heard is a maybe an island opening on July. I see a dark cloud on the map and read what it says, but, come on Wooga Team, how long do you expect ur players to play same scenes over and over?.

I'm very unhappy with the changes in the game. I couldn't wait to play everyday but their changing it so much that it's not as much fun now. Small teams can't win the competitions and now you can't win the key contests either!!