Candy Crush Saga 4+

First the game is fun and sime of the new stuff is cool. But it’s incredibly frustrating that I can’t opt out of the Candy Royale. All of the animation is annoying to wait on. Then with each update, we lose really neat boosters that we used to win in the previous version. Now they’re just timed boosters. I don’t want to win 5 minutes. I want the booster to use when I need it. It used to be at the end of the “six first daily games” episodes that we would get a UFO. Now it’s times use od the UFO and you can barely use it in the little time given. Big loss. And what’s worse is all the Candy Royale animation takes up the few useless minutes of time we do get. Thank you for fixing the mixing of the stripes and wrapped which had turned into explosions for a while. But the wrapped with wrapped explosions don’t seem to clear as many candies. Also, lately the fish target all my boosters and are starting to hurt rather than help. And lastly, please bring back the strip at the bottom where you can see all your friends that have played the level and give lives to them. It was a nice feature. Just saying that I notice each time I get an update all I end up with is LESS of something I really liked and dread getting the update. I want real boosters not just limited time with them. Don’t keep taking stuff away cause at some point the disappointment and frustration will make me not want to come back.

To be honest, it’s the only game app I have besides Scrabble. I have played Angry Birds and occasionally have tried other games but have been playing this quite a while now. I like puzzles and to me this is a puzzle game. You can definitely get better at using the boosters and the design and ingredients in each puzzle.

I get the frustrations of some reviewers, but my biggest issue is the constant pop up windows trying to get you to buy something or participate in some extra feature. Some of us just want to play the game.

As far as spending money to pass levels or buy boosters, pay attention here: I am on level 13,407 and have never, not one single time, bought anything. I haven’t paid a dime for any extras like boosters or lives. I have been a tick on one level for several months before. I have passed 30 levels in a day before. Still, never cost me a penny. I used to be at the point where I would finish the levels and have to wait for updates to get new ones, but the levels got harder and I didn’t play much and got behind again. Still zero $$ ever paid. If they had an option to pay a few bucks and see fewer ads and pop ups I’d do that probably.

I never ever writes reviews, but this app has caused me so much frustration, I felt compelled too! Let me start by saying, the moto “swipe your stress away”, big joke. Let me be frank, this game is seriously addicting, and honestly was fun at first, now here at level 694, almost every board takes days and days to get past. Some of the levels are literally not possible to beat without using boosters, which every 5 seconds this game continuously shoves in your face the “special deals”, this game is free, no ads, they have to make money somehow. Whatever, I get it. However it eventually comes to a point every couple of levels you have to pay more and more to win. Before you know it, you’ve spent wayyy more then you’d like to admit, and AS SOON as you start buying things, the algorithm will INTENTIONALLY make the boards impossible to beat without purchasing, so instead of now being a valued buyer, you’re not someone this game will do everything in its power to walk alll over your completely embarrassing addiction to this game, and frustration of being stuck on a level after playing it over and over 80 times.

Moral of the story, if you play this, never cave in and buy, or you’ll be in a trap of being forced to continue buying in order to move on. Even better option, just don’t even play. It’s easy to say you won’t spend money, then get addicted and almost hypnotize into buying. This game is a pay to win scam, nothing relaxing about that.