No longer able to exit an unstarted board without losing lives - Information and feedback

Pounawea said:

Dear community,

First of all, thank you very much to all you for coming by and sharing your opinion with us and a warm welcome to the forum to all newcomers. 🙂

I wanted to let you know that your feedback has been shared with the Studio and we will be having more conversations around this change in the game during this and the upcoming weeks. Also, I've changed the title of this topic (thank you very much for the suggestion!) and pinned it as an announcement. 

I would also like to confirm that, for now, there are no plans to undo this change in the game. However, due to your feedback, the Studio will be looking into this, we acknowledge the want to be able to preview the levels and will be looking into different ways on how we could incorporate that into the game. 

With that being said, I cannot promise that something will definitely come into the game nor I can give you an estimated date, but I'll certainly keep the conversation going with the Studio so they know what's the community opinion. 

Last but not least, an open question: Can you think of a different way for us to preview levels in the game?
If yes, please share it with us here and I'll be taking it to the Studio! Let's discuss together ideas and options that could be implemented to the game in the future!

Once again, I'd like to thank every one and each of you for sharing your feedback with the community. Please, keep it coming!

Have a delicious day  🙂

There are numerous ways for this issue to come to a peaceful resolution.
If a player wants to back out of the board and sacrifice a life, that's their prerogative. But the game has to allow them to keep the boosters they earned through hard repetitious work on levels that aren't even labeled as "hard" yet take days to complete. 
The timed boosters are also EARNED by hard work and when they are awarded the timer starts ticking regardless of whether they can be used. Most of the time they CAN'T be used because the current level doesn't give them to you EVEN THOUGH YOU COULD ACTUALLY USE THEM.
There is no level that can't have a coconut wheel or check-mark booster to use, but for some reason, probably by design, they are not there and the timed booster is a worthless reward. Give with one hand, take away with the other.
When a player wins a days long contest and is rewarded with 6 hours of boosters, they have no choice as to when you use them because they start ticking when awarded as well. 
King chose MONDAY to give this reward so that the players that have JOBS never really get to use the full six hours. Five lives go away fast when you can't reset the board during those six hours, rendering the reward pointless and knocking the winner off their pedestal. It discourages them from competing again.
We can't all AFFORD to pay to play and that's not going to change. Being thrown under the bus because of that is disheartening and discrimination. The only people that can keep going in the game are those that can pay to play.

The ones that pay to play will ALWAYS pay to play, obviously, and the ones that CAN'T pay to play won't START just because you are trying to force them to. You're actually forcing them to quit and at the same time pissing off the ones that pay and driving them away as well! Taking the videos out of the game is also one of the stupidest things ever done. I can't wait until those sponsors start getting the emails being written at this very moment.

King wasn't making enough money already?? Really? I seriously doubt that. You can't "FIX" what wasn't brokenand has been part of the game ALL THIS TIME and nothing can be said to justify it. Absolutely nothing.

JethrinaBodina said:

Pounawea said:

Dear community,

First of all, thank you very much to all you for coming by and sharing your opinion with us and a warm welcome to the forum to all newcomers. 🙂

I wanted to let you know that your feedback has been shared with the Studio and we will be having more conversations around this change in the game during this and the upcoming weeks. Also, I've changed the title of this topic (thank you very much for the suggestion!) and pinned it as an announcement. 

I would also like to confirm that, for now, there are no plans to undo this change in the game. However, due to your feedback, the Studio will be looking into this, we acknowledge the want to be able to preview the levels and will be looking into different ways on how we could incorporate that into the game. 

With that being said, I cannot promise that something will definitely come into the game nor I can give you an estimated date, but I'll certainly keep the conversation going with the Studio so they know what's the community opinion. 

Last but not least, an open question: Can you think of a different way for us to preview levels in the game?
If yes, please share it with us here and I'll be taking it to the Studio! Let's discuss together ideas and options that could be implemented to the game in the future!

Once again, I'd like to thank every one and each of you for sharing your feedback with the community. Please, keep it coming!

Have a delicious day  🙂

There are numerous ways for this issue to come to a peaceful resolution.
If a player wants to back out of the board and sacrifice a life, that's their prerogative. But the game has to allow them to keep the boosters they earned through hard repetitious work on levels that aren't even labeled as "hard" yet take days to complete. 
The timed boosters are also EARNED by hard work and when they are awarded the timer starts ticking regardless of whether they can be used. Most of the time they CAN'T be used because the current level doesn't give them to you EVEN THOUGH YOU COULD ACTUALLY USE THEM.
There is no level that can't have a coconut wheel or check-mark booster to use, but for some reason, probably by design, they are not there and the timed booster is a worthless reward. Give with one hand, take away with the other.
When a player wins a days long contest and is rewarded with 6 hours of boosters, they have no choice as to when you use them because they start ticking when awarded as well. 
King chose MONDAY to give this reward so that the players that have JOBS never really get to use the full six hours. Five lives go away fast when you can't reset the board during those six hours, rendering the reward pointless and knocking the winner off their pedestal. It discourages them from competing again.
We can't all AFFORD to pay to play and that's not going to change. Being thrown under the bus because of that is disheartening and discrimination. The only people that can keep going in the game are those that can pay to play.

The ones that pay to play will ALWAYS pay to play, obviously, and the ones that CAN'T pay to play won't START just because you are trying to force them to. You're actually forcing them to quit and at the same time pissing off the ones that pay and driving them away as well! Taking the videos out of the game is also one of the stupidest things ever done. I can't wait until those sponsors start getting the emails being written at this very moment.

King wasn't making enough money already?? Really? I seriously doubt that. You can't "FIX" what wasn't brokenand has been part of the game ALL THIS TIME and nothing can be said to justify it. Absolutely nothing.

Responding:
Excellently put, exactly how I’ve felt for quite a while. I have been spending way too much, now will be saving plenty of money. The 6 years I’ve been playing, I’ve never won a jackpot, and have 137 coconut wheels - really? I have already left a 1 star review.