Candy Crush Saga 4+

I really absolutely love this game, but i feel its unfair when we get a challenge and do not get rewarded when we’re not connected to the Internet. I understand that challenges work on the internet, but do not allow us to play if we’re not connected to the internet. Everyday I get my notice from candy crush saying I have full live or times running out and I should play to keep my position. Today when I went to play to keep my position in a certain challenge, I was told that I was at 5th position with a score of two thousand some odd, when I got home and I was connected to WiFi, it told me that I hadn’t made it to the top in the challenge and it showed me that my score was one thousand some odd. I couldn’t have decreased because I know that’s not how it works. My point is, when we’re not connected to the internet, don’t allow us to play for the challenges and give us false hope of winning something when we’re not going to, rather tell us that we should be connected to the internet to win challenges. Beside that, this game is amazing and really addictive😊

I love Candy crush but at level 1334 you get these spinners that fill your board with chocolate faster than you can play. It really pisses me off to loose the game because of this. How do you get one move to clear 3 candies BUT the spinner fills up 8 blocks? And on top of that it will cover stripped candies so you can’t use them but when you clear the chocolate that candy is no longer available???
Playing is now more of a frustration than entertainment!!

I enjoy this game. However, it is clear that the game is designed to stimulate the areas of the brain associated with reward and addiction.

It is also clear that psychologically manipulative measures are employed to motivate addiction and spending.

One of the subconscious assumptions about a game is that it is random and fair. However, these games are rigged and manipulated. Again to condition the player to play and spend.

As the above manipulative and behavioural conditioning is not public knowledge, not explained to the player and the player is not even aware they are happening the game is unethical. Additionally, the methods employed are not common knowledge and, even if they were, operate on parts of the brain which tend to over power logical and executive thinking.

King is a listed company. It is driven solely by profit with no regard for how that profit is obtained nor the exploitative methods it used to generate income.

This is not uncommon amongst companies however, government should protect the public. It should enforce or create legislation to prevent psychological conditioning and exploitation. Since it cannot be unknown by government health or monitoring agencies that this is happening, the fact that this game/company is allowed to continue to operate is testimony to the fact that government is more interested in profit than discharging it’s mandate. A mandate, by the way, awarded to government as a trust.

Yours,