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I've already stopped playing @saygrays. Got the 🤬 Wheel on 16th June after I'd started a new Episode. I'm a player who starts and finishes an Episode in one go, didn't get the Wheel until I'd finished the first level and entered the race. So I completed the Episode using strong boosters 🎉🎉 for the majority of levels, as all I kept getting was a spin of 10 extra moves for levels requiring at least 35. After finishing the Episode I decided that was enough, let's face it a bucket full of gold was need to complete an Episode before this 🤬 Wheel was introduced, to pay for the extra moves built up, but at least I knew what I was doing. So this is my 9th day of not playing any new levels 🙃.

Being at the end of the map (well I was, before I stopped playing), I had stopped getting the Super Colour Bomb, haven't had it for a year or more. Now even though I'm not playing, I always open my game every morning to send lives to those in my Friends List. And 🤣 look what I got this morning ⬇️

🤣😂 If King thinks this is going to make me start playing again, with the 🤬 Wheel still in my game, it just goes to prove they really don't understand what is appealing, and what makes players want to play.

I can't imagine for one minute that any of the developers play the game for fun and relaxation, in fact I doubt one of them has ever downloaded the game to play 🤔

I'm still waiting to hear the final decision of what they are going to do. If the Wheel is going to be permanent, it will then be rolled out to everyone. Whoa, if that happens, the Community will be FLOODED 🌧️ with new posts. Think if that happens, the Community will become as boring as the game is now 😭.

Guess it's up to each individual player on what they want to do, if they've got the 🤬 Wheel. And we'll just have to wait and see what happens, but I'm out for now 😕

I will now add my voice to this thread @QueenB

I had one account that saw the dreaded wheel. I gave up playing that account in protest and in order to support everyone else here.

For anyone who has not seen the Wheel in action, this is how the wheel works:

The wheel is set up to give players what the app wants them to receive, so if a player is meant to pass with 10 gold it will offer them the number of moves that will help pass, if the player is meant to spend more than 10 gold it will offer them too few moves and continue to do so until the player either gives in and pays or has the sense to stop playing. This means the wheel is yet another way for the the app to control the outcome of players' games. It increases the boredom for all, and the frustration of any player still looking for a strategy. The Wheel makes the player a spectator in an app that now essentially plays itself.

Yes, players who generally play to keep their win streaks won't be affected by this wheel. So its introduction will make no difference to those people. However, there are millions of players who use a different strategy to play (I would call this the "replay" method) and King risk a mass efflux of players if they continue with this wheel. Judging by the opponents I see in live events the majority of players do not keep their win streaks but use the replay method to progress.

Yes, we used to only get +5 extra moves or only up to +35 extra moves in the long distant past. However the level difficulty has changed drastically since then. In those days there were "no boosters" solutions and players would get a lucky board to help them pass eventually if they replayed a level often enough. Since the demise of no boosters lucky board solutions players have adjusted their strategies and have used the "pay 10 gold bars when you are offered enough moves to pass" strategy instead. This method is the foundation of how people play and enjoy playing Candy Crush. The Wheel alienates all of those players and directly counters the methods millions use to play and enjoy the game! If King go through with this they risk losing half their player base.

We the players are the true game experts. Trust us on this one: The wheel must go.