Timed Sugar Drops

bearwithme · June 2019

Now that King appears to have restored sugar drops to the players who had temporarily lost them, it appears that King has decided to try out a new twist to collecting sugar drops and that is by having them timed. I am unfortunately in that group and it appears that some of the people who had lost their sugar drops are also in this group. I decided to start this discussion so that people could talk about this new version and provide feedback to King and the community moderator @Jelly Jenny.
I personally do not like this new change. I don't find it useful at all. By the time I collect all the sugar drops, half the boosters will have expired. I would collect drops daily to help me complete the new levels that are released every Wednesday, but collecting daily now with the timed drops just to complete old levels makes no sense and appears to be a waste of my time. I just hope they bring back the original version very soon! I have included a screen shot for those people who still have the original sugar drops.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/6030983/uploads/editor/fz/bbcromsq3tqs.jpg

Lindsey_Ash · June 2019

I am I this group too. I lost my sugar drops for 6 weeks and now I have them back but they are all timed so by the time I collect the sugar drops all the boosters have expired so it is like not having any at all. Often I will collect sugar drops then stop playing for a few hours and then go back later to play so King timing them is not going to work. I can't believe after not having them for 6 weeks now this is what they are doing. King!!! Please take timers off boosters. I won't be wasting my time even collecting sugar drops until timers are taken away.

Lindsey_Ash · June 2019

I have to say also that King, you are not making candy crush a very good and pleasing experience, it is just really annoying and as I said there is no point to the timers.

adylanfan · June 2019

What I cannot get to grips with is why are the same players, who had their sugar drop levels removed originally, and then after having them reinstalled, are now having the boosters timed. Why is King doing this?

bearwithme · June 2019

Actually @adylanfan - I always had the regular sugar drops and now I have the timed ones and I know some of the ones who lost them now have the old version back. I have no idea how they 'randomly' choose who is in the various test groups, but it does seem unfair that some of the people who totally lost their drops now just have the timed version. Maybe King wants to see how those people feel going from no drops to timed drops as opposed to someone like me who had drops and now just has timed drops. (I'm just speculating here).

adylanfan · June 2019

Interesting “bear with me” - could it also be possible that the stash of boosters in players inventories and the levels they are on effects Kings’ decision making.

beccasdad · June 2019

I never lost sugar drops, but I was switched to the timed boosters a couple of days ago. As "bearwithme" says, they are useless. Not to mention you cannot get hammers and hand-switches at all. Not an improvement.

Bianco_Kong · June 2019

I just played old level for the sugar drops, my inventory did not receive any credit. I only get 15 min times booster. It will not help me to challenge the new level in the future, The driving force behind play hard is save boosters.
Now, The situation is like when I am full (no food needed), but you give me "limited time food". The food disappears within 15 minutes. It is really ridiculous and nothing to use, I like the original version, boosters can be stored, free to use.

Christina_S · June 2019

I also never lost the SD, but was only able to play for them with Firefox,
Safari did not work. Now a couple of days ago suddenly all boosters were timed and there were no more hand switches and hammers to win. This is a bad move from King, since collecting SDs now is completely useless. They should know that some levels in the new episodes are impossible to pass without boosters, even the most skilled players have to use them for their YT-videos. So this has to be another trick by King to force people buying boosters after all the stored ones are used up. They are about to ruin this game for good. Please put back the normal boosters and remove the timed ones!

addym · June 2019

I agree with the comments regarding the timed boosters now obtained by the sugar drop challenge. They are of no value whatsoever whilst the previous system of collecting the bonuses allowed the choice of usage plus that bonus would reappear during the course of the level. The timed ones occur once. Further, it would appear there are no longer the hammers and switches available arguably the most important of the bonuses. This would seem to be an extremely pointless change of no benefit whatsoever, in fact the opposite, ultimately limiting player's options.

Lindsey_Ash · June 2019

I agree with all of u regarding timed boosters. They are totally useless to me as by the time I collect my sugar drops the time has run out on the boosters. There is no point to them. After 6 weeks of having no sugar drops to now this...timed boosters...this is really upsetting. It seems like King is jerking us around. If this is what they are going to keep doing then I will find another game to play.

Lindsey_Ash · June 2019

KING, please take timers off the boosters.

bearwithme · June 2019

Great feedback everyone! Welcome to the community and thank you for voicing your opinions @addym, @Christina_S, @beccasdad! I hope all of you will explore the community and visit different threads, enter contests to win gold bars, play some games and share some ideas. BTW - you might want to check out this fun poll: https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga/discussion/258574/who-is-your-favorite-candy-crush-saga-character/p1?new=1

King has listened and responded to feedback from the players in the past, it just sometimes takes longer than other times. Build-a-bot can now be used again on lower levels and they restored people's ability to be able to reset the board. Hopefully King will listen and get rid of the timed drops. Today is Wednesday and I haven't even started the 30 new levels yet but I will have to be much more cautious with my booster usage since I have the timed boosters at this time. I am tagging the community moderator to help ensure our opinions are passed on to the game developers.

@Jelly Jenny - can you please make sure the feedback from the players about the new 'timed' sugar drops gets back to them? As you can see - it is a change we are definitely not fond of. Thank you.

beechgal · June 2019

Lindsey_Ash said:

I agree with all of u regarding timed boosters. They are totally useless to me as by the time I collect my sugar drops the time has run out on the boosters. There is no point to them. After 6 weeks of having no sugar drops to now this...timed boosters...this is really upsetting. It seems like King is jerking us around. If this is what they are going to keep doing then I will find another game to play.

Yes, this is pure BS. I either get timed boosters that are not even usable on the level I am playing or I am out of lives or something else useless. Good players use their boosters for strategy...saving ones until hard levels and knowing when to play. Now that a booster expires after 15 minutes....no more strategy and completely useless. First I go over a month without SG's and now this. Great job King---you have outdone yourself making this game miserable. No more fun=no more spending $$=no more play soon. Buh-bye!

Lindsey_Ash · June 2019

beechgal, thank u for your input. Until they fix this problem I will not be playing candy crush anymore. No more fun.

Joe000 · June 2019

Another slap in the face from the King. We are all part of the Kings Test Trials without our permission or compensation. This latest change is just another way to make CCS more profitable, just like Soda Crush or the other King games. I hope they remember what happened to Coke in 1985 when they changed the formula. The American public's reaction to the change was negative, and "New Coke" was considered a major failure.

I must say that the new version of Sugar Drops does, on occasion, rewards Lollipop Boosters. Few and far between.
Joe

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