Comments such as вЂOnly green color winsвЂ™ or вЂAlways yellow color winsвЂ™ can be seen again and again. вЂњWe see a lot of angry and frustrated comments on our app with people claiming that the game is rigged. The Ludo King team had also come across many such comments in the form of emails from disgruntled users who are convinced that a group of hackers run the game. We use a complete random dice number, but people always feel that the system is against them,вЂќ Ahmad said. вЂњA lot of people complain that the game is rigged. In most of the matches your last token will be stuck at 1 and that 1 will never come.вЂќ In the Apple store, a userвЂ™s comment for Ludo King read, вЂњthe game is so biased that you tend to lose most of the games you play, you struggle to get the numbers and thereвЂ™s always one opponent who gets all the good numbers.вЂќДЄnother wrote, вЂњThe game is a total fake game. In the online platform, especially when playing with unknown players across the globe, leaving the game in the middle after repeatedly getting cut is a common scene.Д«oth Ludo King and Ludo Star are highly rated apps, but the comment section in Google Play Store and Apple Store tells another story of angry users who strongly believe that the game is rigged. Since the whole game is ruled by a dice, a winning move for one player can wipe off the hard work of another in seconds, making the latter feel frustrated. While Ludo can be all fun and entertaining, it can, at times, get on peopleвЂ™s nerves. However, for Ahmad, who has been working on the game for the past three years, Ludo is now more work than leisure. In fact, I like to play high risk, high stake games,вЂќ Jaiswal said. The average age group of the majority of Ludo players as per Ahmad and Jaiswal is between 18-34. Witnessing similar results, Afsar Ahmad, co-founder, GameBerry Labs- maker of Ludo Star, saw 300% jump in daily user engagement after the lockdown kicked off with the average daily time spent being 1.5 to 2 hours. вЂњWhile the daily average time spent on the game increased from 32 minutes to 49 minutes, there is a considerable amount of people who play the game for 4-5 hours daily,вЂќ he said. He added that before the lockdown, they were using 8 servers, but to make the platform work smoothly without crashes and lags, they had to increase the number of servers to 200 after the lockdown began. вЂњWe were not prepared for that,вЂќ he told ET Digital. However, Jaiswal and his team had not anticipated such a huge spike. According to Vikash Jaiswal, founder and CEO, Ludo King, the firmвЂ™s active user base of 1.5 crore before the lockdown increased to 5 crore users per day from all across the globe after the lockdown began. A game familiar to all generations, Ludo once again found its momentum, this time through digital means.ДЄn indication of this rekindled friendship is the booming user base of Ludo King, whose tagline itself reads вЂRecall your childhoodвЂ™.

Confined in homes with friends and family, the lockdown was no less than a nostalgia trip for many, where people rediscovered the joy of watching Ramayana and Mahabharata on television.

Just like Kazi and Tayal, a sizeable number of people in the country have rekindled their relationship with the age-old game. It is an old childhood game for many and people feel an emotional connection towards the game.вЂќ When asked why Ludo particularly became famous during the period, he said, вЂњAnyone can play Ludo, be it your family members, friends or strangers. вЂњSince a colleague suggested the game, I have been playing at least 2-3 games every day post lockdown,вЂќ he said. Some 1000 kilometers away in Gurugram, 27-year-old Yogesh Tayal too joined the bandwagon of the Ludo rage during the lockdown.

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