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New: useless hints

I have noticed today that game hints have become simplified and follow a strict hierarchy. This must be a new change as I am sure I would have noticed this before. It seems to be so in all of my games.

The pattern the hints follow is:

a combo of two special candies
firing off a special candy
creating a special candy
some other move, usually near the bottom of the board

This strict order of priority means that the hints are no longer useful because they will not show the best available move. Hints have lost their "intelligence" and are now brainless and provide no help at all. In my experience creating more special candies should always take priority over blowing up a special candy. Hints are programmed to advise the opposite now and players are being told to blow up any special candy into nowhereland.

One example is the board below.

The game now hints the player to make the orange match with the striped candy, which quite obviously is completely pointless.

What is going on with this game? Is there anything left they can do to make it any worse?

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Alienscar

I wish I had taken a screenshot of a level I was playing today @christinewupp because I saw something that makes me agree with you.

The hints were telling me to make a match that would set off a striped candy. The move I made was to create a Colour Bomb that then aligned with a striped candy. I am sure that previously it would have hinted for me to make the Colour Bomb

At least we got a new font style and how many boosters we actually have.

TonysC8

Christine , your insights are always appreciated !

I always loved Candy Crush , but for me there is absolutely no more incentive to spend my valuable time playing . With all the manipulation tactics King uses on its players and every substantial event that is so obviously rigged , this game is nothing but annoying . Sure they make it possible to qualify but when you get to finals it looks to me like there is no way to win . Unless of course you forego eating , sleeping and spend every minute of the event playing feverishly . Oh and yes putting a second mortgage on the house is pretty much also required .🤣

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Alienscar

I wish I had taken a screenshot of a level I was playing today @christinewupp because I saw something that makes me agree with you.

At least we got a new font style and how many boosters we actually have.

TonysC8

Christine , your insights are always appreciated !

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