I recently downloaded QuizUp for my iPad. This decision was facilitated by a friend who had been playing the game on his phone, and recommended it as a fun diversion. Of course downloading the game and creating an account is only the first step to playing QuizUp. From there I selected the first quiz and clicked start.
All of this is part of the normal experience, but I was then faced with the screen “Finding an opponent.” I punched the cancel button, went back to the homescreen and hid from the iPad for the next fifteen minutes. This is a perfectly normal reaction to being suddenly thrust into a multiplayer game without warning. Of course in hindsight I should have realized that “Start Game” would have, you know, started a multiplayer game in what amounts to be a quiz game that doesn’t have a single player option.
