Ok, so now I’m positve that I have no desire to ever play on Noble Poker. Man, what a crappy piece of software. I’m sorry but it’s so bad it almost seems like a parody of a real site.
Come on, look at this avatar:
Tell me you haven’t seen a guy just like that checking into a hotel with a girl 1/3 of his age who he insists is his niece.
I don’t think the chips had been pushed to my opponent on my bust out hand before I was in the cashier requesting a full cash-out. Yech!
Here’s my beefs (in no particular order):
Sleezebag avatars. When I think about the kinds of guys who designed this and they’re sitting around going “Yeah, that one looks pretty slick” I just can’t help but imagine what kind of person would think they hit the nail on the head. I mean, Party doesn’t even try so you can’t fault them too much. FullTilt’s are kind of cool and some are just plain funny (in a good way). This is the online poker equivalent of spinning rims.
The voice sounds on there are just annoying. Yes, you called, you avatar doesn’t need to announce it. It actually confirms some of my thoughts about the people who picked the avatars. Lots-o-Glitz, baby! Make more flashy stuff!
Two players at our table were dealt blank cards (two different hands). They looked down and just saw white cards. I guess when that happens you have to click on them to make the cards appear. Real amateur! I can only imagine the other bugs this loser must have. But who has time to worry about stuff like that when you can add crazy mad sounds to the game?
Actually the entire thing is a software engineering disaster. What’s with the inability to have multiple windows open? If I click on my player stats, now I can’t do anything at the table. When I first signed up I got one of those annoying customer service pop-up chat windows telling me that if I hurried and made a deposit they would throw me an extra $10. Of course, I was in the middle of trying to make a deposit and the pop-up screen prevented me from actually depositing. You can’t just click the window underneath to regain focus. Once that chat window comes up you have to dismiss it to get back to what you were doing. Again, nice software design guys!
No hand histories. No ability to even cut and paste from the dealer chat window.
All in all, it’s a very amateur effort by people with no design or software engineering sense. Why is this sooooooo hard? Once you build the gaming engine this other stuff should be easy. It’s one thing if you site sucks as bad as Party but it’s a whole different thing when it seems you’ve gone out of your way to make it worse!!