old level major revamp

They have been rewriting every level from level 1 to level 2000 I think in the past few months. They are removing chocolate and bombs from all the levels now in order to make it easier for King to control the outcome of each board, to decide if we are able to pass or will definitely fail and of course more often than not be left one jelly short. Basically all the levels are now pretty much the same: Frosting, jelly, toffee swirls, a bit of liquorice, the odd cage and rainbow twist, bubble gum and those blockers we all love: gumball machines and jelly jars. The easy levels the game passes for us the hard ones we now have to spend a lollipop or 10 gold bars to pass. It's become a spectator sport now. Happy Crushing!

Now that is quite depressing. I know that they are making changes across the board to remove levels that have a chocolate or frog order. I have so far found though that generally the recent changes tend to make levels easier to pass rather than harder. What I find upsetting that they have the effect that they dumb down the game and make it monotonous and pointless, but to hear that a go-to level is now nightmarish bewilders me. You couldn't share exactly which level? It is possible your game is different from other players. King have started to experiment with test groups, so it would be good if we could compare our games. I can access all levels of the game to check them out.

Hello @Rhonda_L I did say King were removing "chocolate and frog order" levels. By this I mean levels where the chocolate is not incidental or used as a blocker but if there is an order to be fulfilled by allowing the chocolate to grow. I have noted that the same applies to the frog this past week: It's still there for us to use but I don't see the order any more.

I do believe the reason for these changes is that they want to encourage players to stay on the top win streak, and they will often give us a double colour bomb combo as a first move as a reward for keeping our win streak. With the super colour bomb enabled it will then clear the entire board twice. So any level in which this would be detrimental does not fit into their new concept I think. The nightmarishly hard and legendary levels are meant for players to pay to pass these and keep their win streaks, but many other levels (some of them our favourite go-to levels) are meant to be passed with ease. So King deliberately keep those in the game.

I just checked out level 16199 and that level does indeed still have a chocolate order, but there are 32 chocolate squares on the board with an order of just 35 and there are two chocolate spawners, so even a double colour bomb combo will not cause a player to fail this. In fact I played no boosters and passed easily, so I think this is a level King want us to pass. The rewriting is not happening all at once. They do this one episode at a time. I just wish they would pause and look at the impact on player numbers now. As you said it's refreshing to see the frog and chocolate as elements in the game. Just frosting and horrible blockers gets monotonous and boring.

Even though I’m at lower levels that what’s being posted here, king definitely changed a lot of levels. There used be ones with bombs or very challengingly the timed ones at one point so it’s not surprising that levels we did are changing drastically whether for good or bad. Depending on perspective. That’s why I have 3 versions of the game ( manner of versions of upgrade) so I can get 3 stars easier