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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In October of 2017, an app called HQ Trivia hit the market and was quickly a growing phenomenon. It is a creative spin on the popular idea of trivia games. While most trivia games are viewed at home in front of a television with only the viewers viewing and the contestants playing, HQ Trivia connects everybody all at once to participate in correctly answering twelve questions in a row for a split prize somewhere usually between two and ten thousand dollars. On some special occasions, the prize money will rise to fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. It sounds like a great idea. At first glance, I was immediately hooked to try and win some money without risking any. However, there a myriad of reasons that HQ Trivia must improve their processes and systems to ensure they have returning participants.<\/p>\n
I was lucky enough to win one of these games one time. I had played many times and was becoming more and more disheartened by the fact that it seemed impossible to win. I had guessed on the multiple choice answers of questions ten and eleven and somehow knew the answer to the final twelfth question as I poked my screen with confidence. I won and learned that I had to split my 2000 dollar winnings with 139 other people totaling a whopping $14.29. As I disappointedly clicked through to try and collect my enormous prize of the equivalent of a couple of burritos from Chipotle, I came to learn that HQ Trivia does not let you cash out unless you have at least twenty dollars\u2019 worth of winning. Not only that, but if you don\u2019t make it to at least twenty dollars\u2019 worth of winning after a certain amount of time, they keep the money you have earned! They have what I can only understand as an unfair stipulation in their terms and conditions when someone signs up to play their game. When I researched this topic further, I learned that this was not their only problem and I am not the only person who has vowed to never play HQ Trivia again out of anger of not winning at least twenty dollars, unwillingly forfeiting the winnings after a certain amount of time.<\/p>\n
Another problem the game has is malfunctions with their servers every day. They sometimes reach viewership of over one million people logging on to play and their servers often cannot handle that kind of workload (Vox). This should prompt them to create servers that can actually handle the capacity for more than what their expected viewership is. It is truly maddening when you have successfully answered eight problems, and then you are kicked from the game through no fault of your own.<\/p>\n
Lastly, it has become more and more well known that the co-founders of the popular online game have had some problems with dealing with their employees in the past. They were also co-founders of Vine, a popular six second video streaming app that was later bought by Twitter. Colin Kroll developed a reputation at Vine and subsequently at Twitter as having a \u201c\u2019creepy\u2019 behavior around women, as well as being a bad manager with an \u201cabrasive\u201d and \u2018abusive\u2019 temperament\u201d (Vox). Furthermore, the other co-founder, Rus Yusupov, has recently had a strange and undeserving freak out on the increasingly popular host of the game show, Scott Rogowsky. It seems problematic that these things are happening within a company and makes me, as the user, even more inclined to stay as far away from re-downloading that app ever again.<\/p>\n
Perhaps, the main investors of the company should consider new management if the co-founders\u2019 erratic temperament persists and their servers continue to malfunction. Hopefully, they will be able to see my cause-and-effect fishbone diagram seen at the bottom of this page for why I think they are going to be losing viewership. We can deduct that HQ Trivia is having problems within their company and that is driving many viewers from wanting to use their poorly run, mismanaged systems to try and win a prize that they might not even be able to cash out on.<\/p>\n
Sources:\u00a0https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/1\/22\/16851342\/hq-trivia-lag-scam-explained<\/p>\n
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