We analyzed 166 negative reviews from the top 5 Basketball Coach apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
28% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Game crashes after 2-3 games in a row. If you have the music on, it will often start up during the ads, which slows the game do"
"It's really a good game and I would love to continue playing it but I cannot because every time I run the game it only let me stay on it for a few minutes the suddenly freezes or crashes and closes out"
26% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I had a team ranked #10 with everyone being a 9 overall or better and lost to a team with 8"
"I have a whole starting 5 of 10 overall players and a bench of mostly 10's and 9's. I'll go with 4-5 losses a year and then lose in the f"
18% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The biggest problem is training. The mini game for it is so confusing and so hard to successfully train the players with"
"The practice I found is very inconsistent and kind of ridiculous and hard to the point where I just keep doing auto and resetting the game till it's successful"
15% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I paid for 'everything' which I did because it would seem logical that it includes removing ads, apparently it does NOT! What a rip off, another money grab from the devs"
"Be careful when it says 'buy everything' that doesn't include ads. It should all be a one time purchase not multiple to unlock 'everything' and stop ads"
22% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"First off, you'll need to unlock ads otherwise you're stuck watching theme every minute or so"
"There seems to be a video ad after every continuation, and what's even worse is that there's an ad on the b"
14% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The recruiting does not make sense as players won't choose the top schools. I had a recruit that had me as their first choice and I was leading the other schools but he didn't go"
"Recruiting doesn't matter in terms of investing points into a player. Even if you're by far the favorite, it really is a coin flip"
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Players consistently report inability to progress past 7-8 seasons due to crashes during save or sim operations, forcing them to restart entire careers
"Every time I reach past 8 seasons on a coach the game crashes when I try to sim past recruiting and in the season and this has happened on 7 of my careers"
Users report that changing offensive/defensive strategies doesn't affect game outcomes, making strategic planning feel meaningless
"I change offense, defense strategies to fit my l team, still, losing seasons, change strategies to not fit, lose"
Frequent reports of game freezing during post-season awards or failing to increment year properly, blocking career progression
"However, I can not advance past year two as during the post season awards the screen freezes and you can not advance this point"
Multiple users report sending bug reports and emails with no response, creating frustration when spending money on broken features
"I have turned in multiple errors and nothing was ever done about it. I ask multiple times if they got the pictures I sent to prove it and again not only was nothing done but they did not even have the courtesy to email me back"
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