Looking Back: What’s Felt Better in Candy Lately? 🧐

Just to add when you get 5 minutes of anything free it is a waste of time as 4 of the minutes are taken up with prompts.

I am really fed up with all the changes making it practically no benefit to players. I decided last week enough was enough & have massively reduced my play. If nothing changes I will not carry on playing Candy Crush.

M_SAAD_BILAL

AOA

Yes;

I want to say some about

Current win stick & login stick

Ocording to rules

We get it One by One and fell down all progress after not winning of one stage.

I request if possible It will fell down

as we get it One by one.

Thanks!

So the Candy Pins are the spesial competitions?

I agree!

FileoFish123

There were a few bad changes for me. For example, I don't like the game being switched to vertical mode at all. I can barely see the candies, orders, text, and objectives. I don't even understand why they did this, especially for PC; it's convenient on a phone. Okay, let's move on to the next thing. I don't like the level redesigns 1000-????. The game modes and objectives in these levels are constantly changing. For example, you might encounter a level where you need to collect sprinkls and all the orders, which might feature a gumball machine and a Mall-o-matic, but the next level will be a jelly level where the blockers contain licorice and icing, and 100 more levels like that. Then, after those 100 levels, you come across a level where you need to clear all the jelly and collect all orders. Mall-o-matic and Sugar Icing might appear in the order, just for example. If I find a similar level, I know for sure that Sugar Icing won't appear until 4,000 levels, and Mall-o-matic will be more than 10,000 levels away. And all of this could be locked in orlocks, which also appear very late. And in general, these modes appear too early for my stage. Jelly-Order, let's call it that, will appear at 3809~, and Sprinks-Order, let's also call it something like that, will appear at level 5000. These are the things I don't like and don't understand. Thank you for your attention if you notice.

pv19r033

Exactly my thoughts! Plus the prompts are super annoying!!!

andersanders

"My question is: why change a system that clearly worked well?"

What works for you doesn't necessarily work for King. 😉

It’s all about striking the right balance between motivating players and maximizing profit.

Billy254

The biggest change for me has been with the Pins. Previously, the event lasted around 7 weeks and the gold rewards were significantly higher. The first batch awarded 120 gold bars, and the second batch gave out 240 gold bars — which felt exciting and motivating.

Now the rewards have been reduced:

First batch dropped from 120 to 60 gold bars

Second batch reduced from 240 to 120 gold bars

And the completion timeline shrank from 7 weeks to just 4 weeks

My question is: why change a system that clearly worked well? I used to genuinely look forward to the Pins tournament, but reducing both the rewards and the duration has made it noticeably less satisfying.

I’d love to understand the reasoning behind this change, because from a player’s perspective, it feels like something valuable was taken away instead of improved.

christinewupp

Yes you are right, the other players are definitely not real. We know they are recordings @Queen_Broccoli . King pick the players from their database of recordings to match whatever gold prize they wish to pay out to us. The amount of gold we can get from Candy Royale is determined by King's computer before we start the race.

phil_morel

The biggest change to me has been changing the Express so that you can't win 20 minutes of lives anymore. That use to be the centerpiece of my strategy and it worked well for me as I accumulated over 2k gold bars once I got the hang of it. Now that's gone and it doesn't look like it's coming back.

As a result, I decided to stop being so competitive and just play the game win or lose, without spending money. To my surprise, have enjoyed it just as much although I don't progress as I used to and I have a lot more money in the bank. If King's intent by removing this feature was to encourage more spending, well it did quite the opposite for me.

My only other thought, and it seems to be in contradiction with some of the other comments, is that overall the games seem easier. Finding about half the games in a race just not that hard, and the others more difficult but winnable even without using gold bars to buy extra moves. And again to my surprise miss the earlier days when some of the games were so weird and hard to win.

pumcar

It seems it is a trap. They ask you what is good and then they go ahead and change that good to bad. So don’t answer this trapped question

Game is too hard. When in elite race; there is too many impossible levels. And you only win 40 gold bars in elite race. And candy royale.... well, it is very annoying to play 25 levels and win less gold than with 12 levels! And other players lose in easy levels but no one loses in difficult lavels…seems like the game cheats and other players are bots. When you start candy royale, many players will lose in first levels so you would continue.

And later levels you have to buy gold bars to stick with it but anyone is losing. Last levels : no one loses.

What is Pins game? I don't know what that is in Finnish language. Many person has liked that game but I have no idea what that is.

CJACKL

Fix the problem when trying to purchase gold bars. EVERYONE is NOT experiencing internet issues! Stop prohibiting purchases

MarkyBaby

I like the fact you can effectively keep playing by watching ads to get 3 more lives. Though I'm addicted so gets me playing for longer which is maybe not a good thing.

srbong

We know there’s a lot that still needs fixing, and your feedback, both the good and the not-so-good continues to help us understand what matters most.

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But today I wanted to flip the question for a moment:

👉 Is there anything that you feel has improved in Candy lately?

Maybe a small change you noticed, something that surprised you (in a good way), or something that made your gameplay feel a bit smoother or fairer?

It could be about:

Level balance

Events

Boosters or blockers

Bugs or fixes

User Experience / Visual changes

Or just anything that felt like a step in the right direction

There’s no pressure to be positive, just honest.

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💬 I’d really love to hear your thoughts, if anything comes to mind.

Thanks for sticking with us and for always sharing your perspective with the community 🤗

🌹

hum123

Moi je trouve le jeu sympa j'ai rien à dire de plus

kfitt

let me play!!! Have been on 16,955 with no way to advance unless I less I pay money. I am held captive by King

EugeniaHonora

The Pins feature is fun. I like to compete with your friends to win boosters, but agree that most of the other changes made recently are keeping me away from the game as they have rendered the game impossible, rather than challenging. Two things I've noticed in particular lately is that boosters make no difference. I've even been unable to win a game with flying saucers and party boosters! The other is the change from making easy level too easy to making them hard. I've been playing an 'easy' level for a couple of days now, never even getting close to winning. A good board comes along and then the final moves offer nothing to enable progress. I used to enjoy playing, now I generally just find it frustrating

HF1

This 'on new levels' requirement in Chocolate Box really feels like the last straw for me. I reconciled myself to spending money a long time ago, but at least via the Chocolate Box I could win a few coins back. Now even that is going to cost more money to complete. The only positive I've seen for a very long time is the Pins game. The other games are gimmicky and stupid.

grace76

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Perdonatemi

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GhostOrchid

Si no compras lingotes no avanzas.

Es muy difícil conseguirlos. Llevo 3 días atascada en el nivel 17522 y no hay manera

Estoy por darme un descanso del juego

TerriM

The only thing that has improved is the pins. I look forward to that event!

A couple of negatives: candy royale...you can pay to play but can't opt out why? This is the most asked question on here why wont they listen?

I've noticed the adds have changed as well, not getting that many and the timer is on the bottom of them when it wasn't before.( Minor)

Also not happy with the the troll where you could play old levels and win.

Thanks for returning the Keep Playing feature to continuing to add moves and not stop at 55.

Peaches12

@Alienscar

Tagging you.

Read all our comments on how the game has changed; but not for the better. It would be great if you forwarded all our comments to the developers and they cared enough to read them and make some good changes instead of ones that have provoked us to relay them to you.

Comments

Just to add when you get 5 minutes of anything free it is a waste of time as 4 of the minutes are taken up with prompts.

M_SAAD_BILAL

AOA

Yes;

I want to say some about

Current win stick & login stick

Ocording to rules

We get it One by One and fell down all progress after not winning of one stage.

I request if possible It will fell down

as we get it One by one.

Thanks!

So the Candy Pins are the spesial competitions?

I agree!

FileoFish123

pv19r033

Exactly my thoughts! Plus the prompts are super annoying!!!

andersanders

"My question is: why change a system that clearly worked well?"

What works for you doesn't necessarily work for King. 😉

It’s all about striking the right balance between motivating players and maximizing profit.

Billy254

Now the rewards have been reduced:

First batch dropped from 120 to 60 gold bars

Second batch reduced from 240 to 120 gold bars

And the completion timeline shrank from 7 weeks to just 4 weeks

I’d love to understand the reasoning behind this change, because from a player’s perspective, it feels like something valuable was taken away instead of improved.

christinewupp

phil_morel

pumcar

It seems it is a trap. They ask you what is good and then they go ahead and change that good to bad. So don’t answer this trapped question

And later levels you have to buy gold bars to stick with it but anyone is losing. Last levels : no one loses.

What is Pins game? I don't know what that is in Finnish language. Many person has liked that game but I have no idea what that is.

CJACKL

Fix the problem when trying to purchase gold bars. EVERYONE is NOT experiencing internet issues! Stop prohibiting purchases

MarkyBaby

I like the fact you can effectively keep playing by watching ads to get 3 more lives. Though I'm addicted so gets me playing for longer which is maybe not a good thing.

srbong

We know there’s a lot that still needs fixing, and your feedback, both the good and the not-so-good continues to help us understand what matters most.

image.png

But today I wanted to flip the question for a moment:

👉 Is there anything that you feel has improved in Candy lately?

Maybe a small change you noticed, something that surprised you (in a good way), or something that made your gameplay feel a bit smoother or fairer?

It could be about:

Level balance

Events

Boosters or blockers

Bugs or fixes

User Experience / Visual changes

Or just anything that felt like a step in the right direction

There’s no pressure to be positive, just honest.

image.png

💬 I’d really love to hear your thoughts, if anything comes to mind.

Thanks for sticking with us and for always sharing your perspective with the community 🤗

🌹

hum123

Moi je trouve le jeu sympa j'ai rien à dire de plus

kfitt

let me play!!! Have been on 16,955 with no way to advance unless I less I pay money. I am held captive by King

EugeniaHonora

HF1

grace76

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Perdonatemi

PePerdonatemépossibileavereillinkpercandy-crushcandy-crush-pin

GhostOrchid

Si no compras lingotes no avanzas.

Es muy difícil conseguirlos. Llevo 3 días atascada en el nivel 17522 y no hay manera

Estoy por darme un descanso del juego

TerriM

The only thing that has improved is the pins. I look forward to that event!

A couple of negatives: candy royale...you can pay to play but can't opt out why? This is the most asked question on here why wont they listen?

I've noticed the adds have changed as well, not getting that many and the timer is on the bottom of them when it wasn't before.( Minor)

Also not happy with the the troll where you could play old levels and win.

Thanks for returning the Keep Playing feature to continuing to add moves and not stop at 55.

Peaches12

@Alienscar

Tagging you.