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Uninstalling (it's become a cash grab)

After 11 years and 18,440 winning games won, I have noticed that the developers are now making the levels not just difficult (or "legendary"), but completely impossible without paying money to buy extra lives.

They are forcing people to pay money to pass a level by giving 20 moves on a single ("legendary" status) level. It's so transparent.

I'm so done with this game. It's not even fun anymore. What started as a harmless boredom killer turned into a cash grab by the developers. No thanks - I haven't got the financial resources for that.

I hope more people who feel similarly follow suit.

Welcome! 👋

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Solitaiew

Totally agree. I'm quitting now. This game is no longer fun. At the 18000+ legendary levels, its mpossible to win without boosters.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3435910#Comment_3435910

I just answered your post in the Help section, so if you missed it take a look. It does not offer any new insights other than what has been said here and what you already have realised.

I did also in the past write this advice to players on the matter, which does create one other option for anyone who does not want to give up playing the game altogether.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/463701/hit-a-wall-of-impossible-levels-and-used-up-all-your-gold-and-boosters-what-to-do

NiceNL

Feel the same!
Currently stuck on 18339, for weeks. It just makes no sense anymore to continue trying and I refuse to pay money.
And very well put: from a harmless boredom killer to a cash grab, so CCS likely stands for 'Candy - Cash Stealing'.

Just uninstalled the game from mobile devices

christinewupp

Hi @CalebMurdock Yes! So here it was buried in a subthread. Thank you so much for investigating and finding it! Great to see I'm not going senile just yet! 😁

oxmo02

Bonjour, je suis totalement d'accord avec vous. Plus de 15 ans que je joue sans exagérer tous les jours. J en arrive à être dégoûtée. Impossible de finir les niveaux sans faire d'achat. Ce n'est même plus un moment de détente mais d'énervement

CalebMurdock

Hi, Christine. This is the post that you "lost". I appreciate everything you said. You've obviously been playing CCS longer than I have. I have a monitor which is squarish, so the game isn't squished TOO much, but still more than I like. I have older eyes now, with replacement lenses due to cateracts. As an older player, I have money to spend, but King wants too much of it. I can see spending $10 a month on a game like this, but I was spending $50 for a while, and that's too much. I think that I may try to wean myself off CCS and give it up altogether. It is wasting my time in any event.

Thank you for sharing.

Doreliz

Totalmente de acuerdo con este comentario, ganan millones a costillas de los jugadores y ni buenos premios dan por superar niveles o por participar en competencias... y ni soñar con que compartan sus ganancias monetarias con nosotros.

En la primera etapa para competir por 100 lingotes, acumulé más de 1600000 puntos, quedando superiormente de primera, el premio: UN PLATILLO VOLADOR.

ESTAFADORES.

donnaf62

I feel the same way exactly they do nothing

christinewupp

Hello @CalebMurdock That is a heart felt statement many of us can identify with, so thank you for sharing those thoughts with us. Like you I have played the game for many years and I too used to spend some money on it, in the days when I found that spending money on some deals was actually value for money: I got six hours of enjoyment at a weekend by binging Candy Crush when I had time to spare. If it's money you can afford and you get value for money from spending it then there is nothing wrong with that. However I have seen so many changes in the game in the past two years, all of which have made the game less enjoyable for me. One of those was the move from landscape to portrait only. I play at the table on a magic keyboard on my iPad. It's kinder on my joints and back. I have had to adjust by playing the game horizontally with the candies "dropping" sideways, which actually works for me.

The entire games market has changed since we were younger. I miss those apps that we used to pay a one-off fee for to download and play. I do still have a few of these myself, and like you see those as a good alternative to the ever changing cash grab apps with in-app purchases that now flood the market. Candy Crush is just one of many. All the ones I try out follow the same format: They start off easy and then are rigged for us to fail so we have to pay to continue. Candy Crush is one of the worst at this. Every aspect in the game is manipulated in order to make money from young and inexperienced new customers. Those are the changes that make the game unplayable for the older generation. Young newbies play on mobile phones, not computer screens or iPads. This is no longer a game for middle aged or middle class people, or for nerds. It has been dumbed down to appeal to a completely different kind of person. It really is time to let go now.

CalebMurdock

Yes, but King continues to advertise on TV, so they must be flush with money. SOMEONE (me!!) is paying them a lot of money to play the game.

CalebMurdock

I am in precisely the same place. I am on level 5090 (which I know is low compared to many of you). When I realized I was dishing out $40 to $60 a month to King, I decided I had to do something about it. Now I will play a level 30-40 times in an effort to win it without paying money, but the developers are clever. First, they make it impossible to win the level without buying gold bars. Then, they "get" you by pressuring you to win levels so as not to lose your "progress". I have found that Candy Royale is one of their traps. They design the game so a player can win 6 or 7 levels in a row, but then the 7th or 8th level will be too difficult to win. Since you have to win Candy Royale 8 levels in a row to get gold bars, there is tremendous pressure to pay money so as not to lose your progress in the "streak". What I'm shooting for now is to pay no more than $20 a month to King, but that is still $240 a year, which is just too much. I mean, I have games on my computer which I paid $25 for ONCE and get to play forever.

However, something new has just happened that I think is going to cure me of Candy Crush. It appears to me that the size of the playing field has recently shrunk, which means I have to squint at the screen in order to play (I use a desktop computer). They have subtly rearranged the playing field elements so as to make everything spread out, but that has caused the individual icons to shrink. This for me may be the last straw.

Faz405

I absolutely concur with you. I am stuck on level 18801 without the gold bars for about 2 weeks, and and can't see any prospect of passing this level without spending money. So I may say good bye to candy crush now.

PyroFunk

Many have, especially since they are doing that crap in the early, I mean pre 200, levels.

Comments

Solitaiew

Totally agree. I'm quitting now. This game is no longer fun. At the 18000+ legendary levels, its mpossible to win without boosters.

christinewupp

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/comment/3435910#Comment_3435910

I just answered your post in the Help section, so if you missed it take a look. It does not offer any new insights other than what has been said here and what you already have realised.

I did also in the past write this advice to players on the matter, which does create one other option for anyone who does not want to give up playing the game altogether.

https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/463701/hit-a-wall-of-impossible-levels-and-used-up-all-your-gold-and-boosters-what-to-do

NiceNL

christinewupp

Hi @CalebMurdock Yes! So here it was buried in a subthread. Thank you so much for investigating and finding it! Great to see I'm not going senile just yet! 😁

oxmo02

CalebMurdock

Thank you for sharing.

Doreliz

En la primera etapa para competir por 100 lingotes, acumulé más de 1600000 puntos, quedando superiormente de primera, el premio: UN PLATILLO VOLADOR.

ESTAFADORES.

donnaf62

I feel the same way exactly they do nothing

christinewupp

CalebMurdock

Yes, but King continues to advertise on TV, so they must be flush with money. SOMEONE (me!!) is paying them a lot of money to play the game.

CalebMurdock

Faz405

PyroFunk

Many have, especially since they are doing that crap in the early, I mean pre 200, levels.

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