Zynga, the company behind the atrocity that is Farmville, is a company that most gamers despise. Their claws latched into casual gamers around the world, the bilk people of hard-earned dollars with micropayments for silly things like orange pigs and green alien cows.
Sadly, when looking for a Scrabble-like game on my iPhone a long, long time ago, the best I could find was Words with Friends. At that time, it was developed by Newtoy, Inc. Eventually, though, Zynga ate them like a hearty appetizer, and spawned a whole category of “with Friends” games. Now I own them all: Words, Hanging, Scramble, Chess. I hate that I feed their eager maws, even without paying for microtransactional coins and bits and doodads.
HOWEVER, these games are really good. Scramble with Friends, the newest word game (like Boggle, more or less) has been beneath my grubby fingers several times a day since it came out. So, I recommend buying it. It’s good. It’s okay to hate Zynga, and still feed them. They’re obviously hungry after all…