I had an account I have had for many years and even spent money on it. So one day they thought my account had been hacked, so they closed it. After countless emails back and forth, my account remains closed and the money I have invested in the game is lost. So for me a clean money machine. !!!
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Futt O.
wgt.com (free online golf). Realistic & did work well - world golf tour - some minus points
wgt works for me - just one MINUS... revision 16.Nov… some MINUSES
For me it worked well at least first few months, …more recently some frustrating things
+ it is challenging to become better at it.
+ the play and adjusting for shots is initially very realistic (I play real golf since decades) - the only difference is that in real life you are less consistent than hitting a mouse button at the right moment.
+ non-consistent / inconsistent "hit meter", odd effects of wind, and unexpected shot outcomes is programmed into it, especially for lower level players and the initial free and cheaper less good equipment/clubs - this is like real life - sometimes a shot goes wrong or unexpectedly wrong/different
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+ You can choose whether to spend cash or do things like online surveys to get credits, or by winning head-to-head challenge games for credits vs other players (tricky if you are not yet good of course). You need Credits to get better clubs (longer driver/woods; irons and wedges that spin the ball so it stops when landing on the green; putter that more consistently hits the putts...)
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A MINUS point is that it seems you can somehow annoy wgt in such a way that they lock or disable your account without warning or real proper explanation, meaning have to start from beginning again! A friend who was scoring good (too good?) from day1 and for some time, then suddenly account was disabled, explanation was automated gobbledygook.
… Similarly, a close family member was only in for less than 2 weeks, then had account banned and locked out, accused of being a double account (“multi-accounts”) presumably due to logging in through the same laptop/wifi address as another family member (at different times as they were using the same laptop!).
It has been said elsewhere in other reviews that members of same family or friends get accounts locked on basis of assumed "double account", when they have entered with different devices, even simultaneously into same game, through same wifi… which will be the case for a family or friends at the same place. If that is true it is understandably frustrating...
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Update 16.Nov.2018, MINUS POINTS. It is stated by others in wgt that game gets very frustrating as you become good / really good.
Initially, other than very occasional "hyper-speed meter jumping" & occasional strange/odd erratic shot outcomes, had not yet seen that myself.
However as I have got better, with higher rating (lower average), more erratic things are appearing… such as shots strangely veering sideways against the wind direction landing the ball in the rough, especially when playing in tournament / competitions. Also odd putts swerving off uphill just before going in. Some have elsewhere suggested this is the game’s clever algorithms / programming designed to take credits off you and also to make you need to spend on better equipment just to stand still, otherwise, the fun evaporates.
- there are other reviews of wgt.com elsewhere that can be found until more people post a review here.