I agree with you. I used to play the game all the time because it was fun. I stopped because I got the same cheapo tile both times I filled my tile case. And it took me a month of playing for each of them -_-

I have never played the game and, after reading your post, I don't think I ever will. I have little patience. In fact, I'd say I have none at all! I'd be pulling my hair out I'm sure :P

I don't really have a problem with this game. I'm not so serious about it actually but I like the concept of the game alot though. I just play it once, maybe twice a day. And I just don't have the patience to do it more often. The waiting time during a finished and a new game doesn't bother me so much. The time the game itself consumes does that. I'm going for the 5 tiles achievement.. but I don't hurry.

And when I finally have all the 5 of tem (still 3 to go) - I just KNOW I will feel seriously good about it XD . This is alot of work for one single achievement, but I do not have a problem that one is a bit harder to get.. but still it's possible (some are hard and nearly impossible, that's a bit more frustrating for me actually).

I like the Tiles game just fine the way it is.

I don't think Gold users should get to play it any more often; Gold users don't need an advantage in every area of the site :( they already have loads. Honestly, I don't think two hours is too long to wait anyway.

If it had to be changed, I prefer Ariel's suggestion of everyone being able to play a fixed number of times per day... But still, I'm fine with it the way it is. People who are on the site more hours in the day get to do more of all the fun stuff, including play Tiles more often.

No, you don't "have to" trade away your tiles at the Tile Monger's extortionate rate. Simply not trading tiles is an option. Yes, it will take longer to get the first bonus game; but thereafter you'll have be building up loads of duplicates, and it won't take nearly as long to get to every subsequent bonus game. Patience: it pays off! Subeta would become very boring very fast if every aspect of it was all about instant gratification.

As for the game taking a long time to play... each regular game takes me about 2 minutes, on an exceedingly ancient, laggy computer. It's very far from what I would call a time-consuming game.

P.S. Online timers exist in abundance. :)