I have been playing Candy Crush since it was introduced to my computer with Windows 10, ten years ago. Things have become more difficult, sometimes infuriating, over the past year or so. I have reached level 20739, and end up competing with players at much lower (and easier) levels for various prizes. Extra moves availability, after most failures to complete a level, for watching ads has disappeared. Now they are a rare occurrence. And the top offer of a flying saucer and three moves is paltry compared to what we used to get. I wonder if the companies paying for those ads realize that they are not getting the views they used to get. The difficulty of levels is ridiculous for the number of moves allotted. And having 3, 4, or sometimes 5 "Legendary" levels (along with several Nightmare and Very Hard levels) in a group of 15 levels is quite the challenge when it is impossible to pass them with spending gold bars to get extra moves after a failure. It used to be that the number of extra moves available after a failure indexed up with 10 additional moves after a failed try. The accumulation of these moves after many failed attempts allowed a level to be passed by spending gold bars in exchange for the moves accumulated. Now the number of extra moves available is determined by the Wheel of Destiny, the number of moves can go up or down (is not cumulative), and is never enough to justify the spending of precious gold bars to pass the level. That is the last straw. The powers at King have ruined this game for many people, due to their greed. There needs to be a balance of game satisfaction for the players and profit making for the developers. King has failed to do that. The game slogan used to be "swipe your stress away". Not any more. With that I bid you farewell, never to play again.
