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I don't know if you are still here @writchie . I doubt it, but your post does illustrate beautifully though in a financially wasteful manner (I assume you are loaded with money so you could easily afford to run your test) how King's tactics have changed over the past few months. Us long standing players will have to change our playing tactics and strategies accordingly.
This is how I keep going:
Don't pay for anything. Don't play the game at times when you hit a wall of episode after episode loaded with impossible to pass levels. In April I believe there was such a wall in levels leading up to 10,000, which may be why @writchie was driven to this mad experiment. King were counting on players to spend money to reach that milestone. There is also such a wall in levels 15,000+ at the moment, as King are counting on players to spend money to catch up with the end of the game. Those are the level ranges particularly targeted with impossible to pass levels. If you find yourself in one of those blocked ranges and out of boosters stop playing! Your progress and gold is safe as it is saved in King's servers. Then do one of the following:
I don’t know what’s going on, I am assuming they have made levels so hard that people will pay for boosters and gold bars. This week I am still on the same level. I have not passed it and I’m on day 4. I had a ton of gold bars, boosters etc.. because I saved them up instead of using them so much. I now have 4 gold bars left. I notice now after using all my gold bars and boosters to pass levels that something is up, and I don’t like or appreciate it. I am ready to stop playing this game completely. It’s very sad how everywhere you turn people want all your money. This use to be fun to play and now it is not. Why play something that pisses you off. If this doesn’t change soon with an update, I’m out. I’m very disappointed King. I’m sure people are paying so it won’t change.
Exactly! I’m tired of it. I used all my saved items and the levels are ridiculous. When they give you 20 lives and you spend your gold bars for 100 tries (because you keep waiting for that amount to make sure you pass it) and it takes you 20 more then something is up. I’m almost done with this game, it’s not fun anymore and it pissed me off also that it’s in portrait mode now!