One of These Things Are Not Like the Other

I don't understand that you don't have the event. You posted screenshots of it? It was run a few weeks ago.

I agree very much with @PummyRaj ,who is a player just like all of us here. We cannot choose which version of the various events we are given. Luckily although we do spend some time comparing events here in the community we take it "with a pinch of salt" as I would say, and there is no animosity in this community about it, thank goodness. We all know King are unfair in the way they use "test groups" for everything from adverts, events, payouts of events, top win streaks to the actual level design. It is best to take it not all too seriously since it is only a game. Since King provide this game for free and no player is forced to spend any money on it (if the only way to play seems to be to spend money then we all have the choice to quit!) they can run the game whichever way they like really. We either go along with it or stop playing it. The latter is really quite easy for anyone to do: Uninstall the app.

You might be interested in my question about All Stars which I post below just in case it might interest you. I don't care that much about fairness in the actual game any more for the reasons I stated above, but in a cash prize competition I really do think ethics of fairness matter hugely.

To be honest @Colleen12 I am not too sure I can answer your issues as King aren't transparent enough in their working practices or communications for me to come to any absolute conclusion.

I would say this isn't a suggestion it is an actual fact. It is a definite fact that levels across the platforms are of different design and difficulty, so it follows that features across the platforms are likely to be different, or in some cases non-existant. Additionally it is not just across platforms as people on the same platform can have different (no) features.

Personally I disagree with all of the complaints about unfairness as for me Candy Crush, at its heart, is a single player game. The overlay of features that try to make out that you are playing against/with other people is just a smokescreen and should be ignored. That is, the problems only arise if people compare their game to someone else's when there is absolutely no reason to do this. If people just played their own game with the features they have they would be much happier. I find it odd that people claim that something like the 20 gold bar difference in the Bash for Bars is unfair as realistically what difference would the 20 bars make. In other words if people didn't know about the 60 gold bars they would have been perfectly happy with 40.

When people are fond of something they get really defensive/protective of that thing. The problem is when this happens some of the dissatisfaction can be summed up as 'we don't like change'

I gave you that address Colleen, so please try this one instead candycrush.techhelp@king.com

As for the main reason for your post there is nothing I can say to answer this as the only people that can genuinely answer your question about why we see features with differing rewards is someone from King.

The situation you highlight with your screenshots is nothing new as pointed out by PummyRaj and it is something that has been going on for years. Even the Treat Machine caused complaints when it was first released when it was discovered that some people received UFOs from them. There were even versions with more and less tiers.

In my opinion the only thing wrong with the feature variations is King's language when describing them. Every feature/Event is described as a test and quite frankly this is ridiculous.

The constant use of the word test in response to queries about why players haven't got a particular feature/Event is, I believe, the biggest reason and cause of frustration in players.

Every person that plays Candy Crush will have encountered some kind of test in their life and they understand that every test requires a reason and a result. So when King tells us that a feature such as adverts that have been in the game for years is a test for most people this comes across as obvious obfuscation.

Another example of how ridiculous the word test is when used by King is the All Stars. The All Stars is a major $1,000,000 event splashed across social media and it comes with a Hub and a change to the Home screen of the game. Yet any issues with the event are met with the response of 'it's just a test'. Any right thinking person realises that tests aren't advertised first and for weeks in advance on social media.

So in case it isn't clear I don't see the variations between the features as an issue and the real issue and cause of frustration is the obscure language used by King.

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