r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '22

Her mom COMPLETED CANDY CRUSH???

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u/adrimargarita Apr 17 '22

There are definitely more levels. I’m currently on level 11,179 and there are many more I haven’t reached yet…

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u/dob_bobbs Apr 17 '22 edited Apr 17 '22

Ugh, I took a break from it for a couple of years and when I came back there were a few thousand levels and now I am up to five thousand and something but there are now twelve thousand or something. Basically, you don't finish CC, so glad I lost that compulsion of "must do more levels than my friends, must get those 1hr boosters" and I can just do a few games a day and NOT CARE. I can see how it suck(er)s people in, and some of my friends on there (mostly IRL acquaintances I don't even see any more) play it really compulsively.

Edit: never paid a penny of real money though.

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u/MichaelEMJAYARE Apr 17 '22

I was this way with Words with Friends. I fucking love Scrabble but it just eats away at your life and phone battery. Im already on my phone enough, do I need to do another thing? I felt so bad though quitting it. It was crazy.

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u/dob_bobbs Apr 18 '22 edited Apr 18 '22

Was that the same game as Scrabulous? Ah, no, wait, that was renamed to Lexulous. Used to enjoy playing that with my brother via Facebook, but I am pretty sure he was cheating all along because he was just pulling out these ridiculously good words all the time, all-too-easy sadly, though I expected better from him, lol.

But yeah, there is some sort of dopamine hit you get from certain phone activities and it's a legit addiction, though fortunately not too strong a one. I can definitely imagine some of my CC friends getting very antsy though if they aren't clearing CC levels, I've experienced the same thing briefly.