Playing for 10 years—just bought boosters once…now no freebies/extra moves

Hello @Deadbug It's been many years now that we have heard reports exactly like yours. In fact we have NEVER yet heard from any player here who made a purchase and then carried on being able to see adverts and gain freebies from them, it is so definitely true that the algorithm you describe exists. About a year and a half ago I tested this out when I had annoying ads in two of my games. Three days after making a small purchase the ads were gone, to my relief, as I actually find them annoying and at the time thought that as King change our games in response to spending money they might include better events to compensate. I am still undecided about this. A lot of us play very successfully entirely for free, though never getting any help from ads at all, so there must be some compensation mechanism. King do change which "test group" players are assigned to with regards to what events we get and more importantly which version of events players see in their games. This is how they control our games. They do make changes month after month, but it would appear that this one you have just encountered is the one feature of the game that is permanent: Anyone who spends real money automatically loses the ads. We have been warning about this for years here. Welcome to the Community. Come and join us in the other threads and keep warning others about this.