Recent CCS activities/changes are towards loosing active players. Do you agree?

It's simply impossible to play Saga without ingots for extra moves and without events you don't have power-ups, so I think it doesn't seem like they want us to play. ten years and never seen this, it's a shame.

Let's be realistic, Ads alone is not going to support this game, the vast majority of King's revenue comes from in-app purchase of boosters. At the end of the day, any changes King makes is an attempt to boost up revenues. I think we see a lot of the changes being implemented in the 2nd half of 2021, judging from the revenue trend, people are willing to spend more money, so their strategy worked. Unless they see a downward trend for revenue, they will just continue to put out more and more restrictions, turning CCS into truly a pay to pass game.

Limiting lives is another strategy to force you to use gold bars, but personally I think people put different value system on lives, which have traditionally been free. I am not sure how many of players are willing to use gold bars to obtain extra lives. They have experimented this for a while now, I am sure they have the statistics to support their change.

The way the games are designed now is that they give you one extraordinarily good hand in every 1000 games. Therefore, technically you can pass the game without boosters, but you have to have that one good hand, by limiting the lives, they are forcing you to not be able to play and play until you hit that hand, so either pay up or get stuck for weeks or months.

Personally I understand all that, and it's a personal decision how you want to play CCS, treat it more leisurely or simply give up, it's entirely up to you. My biggest gripe is that games are constantly changing, initially relatively easy, then it's tweeked to impossible number of moves, then after a few weeks relaxed again, it's incredibly unfair to people stuck in the impossible stage.

I fully agree with all of this I've been playing for over 8 years now and just recently the changes are making the game less interesting I saved over 400 lives and then came the day the limit was 20 per day that's a bad day if I struggle then what wait til tomorrow I'm slowly giving up on CCS 😔

It's true. Recently, CCS team force the players to quit after irritation and losing some money.