Mahjong Wars: cafe.com whups pogo

Man, what are they thinking over at Pogo.com?

I just can’t get into their Mahjong games. Literally. Oh don’t get me wrong, at my friends’ behest I really, really tried, but it’s like they want you to give up in frustration. For starters, the best version of it isn’t even available to everyone… you have to be a paying VIP.

Oh well, they’ve got bunches of others, I’ll just try one of them right? Oh, too bad, can’t play it in Firefox, so now I have to load up Internet Explorer (ew). Can you say inconvenient? On to the game! Wait, no… oh look, IE needs to install software to play the game… and the browser’s security protocols are blocking its own download. Great. The game better be worth all this trouble.

And meanwhile, I especially love the little add screaming “hello” at me every time my mouse passes near it. Not. Ok, forget in-browser, I’ll just try the downloadable version.

Finally, I’m playing. Ok, lots of layouts, pretty graphics, not bad…not bad… but jeez, can you say “boring”? And way too easy.

That’s it, I give up. I’m going back to Cafe.com. The Mahjong there is just a lot more challenging … I just click and play. Don’t even have to be a member!