Instead of the lives being left in messages until needed.? Basically this means to receive lives from friends, they must be online, playing this game at the moment I request one,AND check their messages, then send, AND I wait around in the game I have No lives in - for minimum 15 minutes, hoping a friend does this, and I don't rip my hair out in boredom during this wait.
Even going thru messages is a chore, extremely slow, with no lives in there, have a tendency to skip them
Why? Every other game developer lets messages sit until we open, then accept. Which makes us play longer stretches of time, which I'm assuming is the idea. With no lives left, I exit the game. Knowing this, it isn't my first choice game either.