Here I am, back after my exclusive three-year tour of Europe, Scandinavia and the Subcontinent

Pyrolight111

Bonus points for anyone that gets that slightly modified reference in my title.

So this adventure and the rules

1. No hints
2. No extra turns
3. No buying gold
4. Attempt one six hour session a day if possible
5. No friends
6. Staring intra-season ie July 15
7. Yeti Avatar
8. Apparently today is hard core mode… Good lord

So for day 1

1. You can no longer change your avatar in the win app version
2. Got the double hatchling info 17 and 18
3. Intro quest but had some broken text for the win screen
4. Daily quests are working again
5. Daily Treat Machine seems to be the same for everyone now
6. Look what I got at 96
7. UFO/Party Popper still do not show up at ~80.
8. They fixed 163. It is not near impossible anymore.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3117509#Comment_3117509

I would lean towards option 2: I think the levels have been made easier for the time being. My Candy Cup game also I got through the episodes in the 200s surprisingly easy to pass with using starting boosters plus win streak boosters. Also I always read all the posts in the community and from that I can tell which level ranges have been made harder, just by the number of queries coming in about certain levels! At them moment no one is asking help for levels 200-500, which makes me think the game has become easier.

I would discount the theory that playing starting boosters might ever be disadvantageous (except that you waste them). Surely the coding will always take that into account as the game revolves around players to use boosters now. If you ever were to find they backfire then surely that must be a glitch.

Win streak boosters being more powerful makes sense. That's one way to encourage players to spend gold/money to keep their win streak is to show them how useful those win streak boosters are first of all, then suddenly put in a level that they are guaranteed to fail on a first attempt. There was one such level in my recent game (I can't remember which one, unfortunately) and I ended up paying twice for some reason (10 + 16 gold), which is something I NEVER do normally and always tell others to never do. I was so angry the game had tricked me. I fell for the "sunk cost" effect on that one. Should have replayed it, but I was out of lives I think. I hadn't made enough friends so I didn't have lots of lives and I was worried I'd end up with no lives left in the middle of the competition.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3117509#Comment_3117509

I would lean towards option 2: I think the levels have been made easier for the time being. My Candy Cup game also I got through the episodes in the 200s surprisingly easy to pass with using starting boosters plus win streak boosters. Also I always read all the posts in the community and from that I can tell which level ranges have been made harder, just by the number of queries coming in about certain levels! At them moment no one is asking help for levels 200-500, which makes me think the game has become easier.

I would discount the theory that playing starting boosters might ever be disadvantageous (except that you waste them). Surely the coding will always take that into account as the game revolves around players to use boosters now. If you ever were to find they backfire then surely that must be a glitch.

Win streak boosters being more powerful makes sense. That's one way to encourage players to spend gold/money to keep their win streak is to show them how useful those win streak boosters are first of all, then suddenly put in a level that they are guaranteed to fail on a first attempt. There was one such level in my recent game (I can't remember which one, unfortunately) and I ended up paying twice for some reason (10 + 16 gold), which is something I NEVER do normally and always tell others to never do. I was so angry the game had tricked me. I fell for the "sunk cost" effect on that one. Should have replayed it, but I was out of lives I think. I hadn't made enough friends so I didn't have lots of lives and I was worried I'd end up with no lives left in the middle of the competition.