Tired of highway robbery

I have to say, while I understand King is a business and thus interested in making money, and I’m the one who decided to use it, so don’t feel entitled to demand they make their game exactly to my liking, the whole 5 lives at a time thing irks me.

I enjoy playing, and have decided the $ I spend is worth it to me. But having an app that limits how much one can play it is odd to me, feels a bit disdainful of its players (which this community is anything but - quite the contrary). A while back, once in a while if you nearly won, they’d actually give you the 5 moves for free. It was encouraging & even made one feel valued as a customer.

And perhaps it’s just my bad playing, but when I don’t win levels, it seems like 85% of the time I was one or two more moves from success - thus tempts me to give the extra 10 gold (I am not accusing King of cheating, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they design levels to be just that much harder). And so many changes I’ve seen increase costs - remember when your piggy bank gave you 60 gold instead of 30?)

On a positive note, besides the various ways to win free boosters each day, there is a feature that I only recently figured out. When someone in game asks for a life, giving it to them does not decrease your own. Players can gift lives to each other (still with wait time between), and request them.. Few players seem aware of this, it seems, but it is quite helpful and friendly. I usually have two or three strangers helping each other out among the folks Im grouped with.

Still, Candy Crush is fun to play, I find it worth the elements I don’t like.

have to agree ! too many games require extra moves at 10 gold bars just for 1 or 2 moves. at average worth a gold bar is 10 cents so that extra move is a buck. Too expensive !!

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