The Words with Friends team spent 6+ months and hundreds of engineering days on a "fast play" feature that was never tested with real users; when tested, only 1% of players clicked on it, meaning they would need to accept a 99% rejection rate just to be at the minimum 5% target for a viable feature.

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Speaker

Mark Pincus

Evidence Quote

What did you get in your click test? And they said, "Well, we're currently at about 1%." So 99% of Words of Friends players say no [ __ ] way

Source

You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille CreatorThe Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:09:28 AM

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