The difference between haves and havenots. How can this be the same game???

christinewupp

So I'm competing right now as two players (two flowers: Echinacea and Sunflower) playing exactly the same levels. Why oh why is one of my two games such fun and the other so frustrating????

I know why: Sunflower is fighting hard to survive, losing all the gold she accumulated since the summer.

Echinacea is rich, really rich in gold bar terms, with 15,000 + gold bars in the account.

Knowing you can buy yourself out of any situation is indeed very powerful and actually earns you more gold: Echinacea is making gold, still, whereas Sunflower is losing gold, same person playing the same levels using more or less the same strategy. Is it all psychological?

I'm not sure, but @Alienscar you are right when you state that players who can spend money are at an advantage: Anyone rich enough to buy 10,000 gold bars (costing £1000 sterling at today's prices) will be able to both enjoy the game and perhaps really rock it through into the next round of All Stars. Only, please don't anyone try this, because that is a huge risk, given that if we all did this, or if even more that 10 players tried that, you would lose it all! But to some people that amount of money for a bit of fun may well not matter..?

Candy Crush is not fair to all players, so much is certain.

christinewupp

Your points have set me thinking @Alienscar:

Years ago I used to spend small sums of money on this game. I used to purchase the weekend offers of 2 or 4 hours unlimited lives plus unlimited boosters, and I found exactly what you found. I had 4 hours of fun, and £2.99 was a sum I was willing to part with to have 4 hours of fun playing a good game. I stopped spending money when I found that I this offer was no longer value for money. One day I found that my purchase did not buy me fun any more, but frustration. That was the time when King took out lucky boards. I remember the day I noticed this. My strategy used to be to use the infinite lives and unlimited starting boosters to keep quitting and restarting a difficult level until the colour bomb and wrap or stripe ended up side by side on my starting board. One day, suddenly, it no longer happened…….! Chance would dictate that once in a while the colour bomb and wrap should start of side by side on the starting board, but on that particular level it NEVER happened. That was an eye opener to me of just how very fixed and pre determined these level algorithms really are. It became really obvious the moment King took away the lucky boards from some of the levels. Since then I no longer spend anything on the game. Infinite lives are just adding to the frustration when you have to replay a legendary level until your fingers get cramp knowing that however long you try, you won't get anywhere because the algorithm demands that you pay gold or play a UFO.

christinewupp

Your points have set me thinking @Alienscar:

Years ago I used to spend small sums of money on this game. I used to purchase the weekend offers of 2 or 4 hours unlimited lives plus unlimited boosters, and I found exactly what you found. I had 4 hours of fun, and £2.99 was a sum I was willing to part with to have 4 hours of fun playing a good game. I stopped spending money when I found that I this offer was no longer value for money. One day I found that my purchase did not buy me fun any more, but frustration. That was the time when King took out lucky boards. I remember the day I noticed this. My strategy used to be to use the infinite lives and unlimited starting boosters to keep quitting and restarting a difficult level until the colour bomb and wrap or stripe ended up side by side on my starting board. One day, suddenly, it no longer happened…….! Chance would dictate that once in a while the colour bomb and wrap should start of side by side on the starting board, but on that particular level it NEVER happened. That was an eye opener to me of just how very fixed and pre determined these level algorithms really are. It became really obvious the moment King took away the lucky boards from some of the levels. Since then I no longer spend anything on the game. Infinite lives are just adding to the frustration when you have to replay a legendary level until your fingers get cramp knowing that however long you try, you won't get anywhere because the algorithm demands that you pay gold or play a UFO.