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Derby County fan buys into club after making £500m in Candy Crush investment





Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003
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So Derby has access to new funds, and Cellino of Leeds is about to trouser £69million for selling Cagliari. Looks like there might be a bit of spending power in the division after all.
 


edna krabappel

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So Derby has access to new funds, and Cellino of Leeds is about to trouser £69million for selling Cagliari. Looks like there might be a bit of spending power in the division after all.

Leeds also have significant debt though, and isn't there still some cloud hanging over Cellini?
 


Barrel of Fun

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On the subject of Candy Crush. Yes, it's quite an addicitve game, but I was amazed how much the collective spend each day on buying what-have-you.

It's not beyond the realms of possibility of 'fixing the odds' rather than randomness to ensure poor souls pay, is it?
 


halbpro

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Jan 25, 2012
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On the subject of Candy Crush. Yes, it's quite an addicitve game, but I was amazed how much the collective spend each day on buying what-have-you.

It's not beyond the realms of possibility of 'fixing the odds' rather than randomness to ensure poor souls pay, is it?

As with pretty much all mobile games of that ilk, the odds are heavily fixed, evaluated and tailored, sometimes on a user to user basis (although grouping users together is more typical).
 




Barrel of Fun

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It's amazing that they manage to convince a collective to part with thousands of £s daily.

Is it £600k a day or something around that.

I'm sure I read a story about an app developer doing something similar, but Candy Crush took off.
 


willyfantastic

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Mar 1, 2009
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On the subject of Candy Crush. Yes, it's quite an addicitve game, but I was amazed how much the collective spend each day on buying what-have-you.

It's not beyond the realms of possibility of 'fixing the odds' rather than randomness to ensure poor souls pay, is it?

theres an interesting article i read somewhere that studies the success of candy crush - and from what i remember it's success is to do with how perfectly balanced the gameplay is, meaning that the player doesn't feel cheated when they lose, and they usually come close enough that they will immediately try again - add to that the limit on how many goes, and paying to unlock, and people will happily pay a small amount (a very small amount compared to time invested/enjoying the game) - but it all adds up for the developers

also they change the level design often, but dont mess around with the gameplay, which means people stay interested with the new level designs, and dont have to learn new controls, which i guess is a big deal for casual gamers
 






Barrel of Fun

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theres an interesting article i read somewhere that studies the success of candy crush - and from what i remember it's success is to do with how perfectly balanced the gameplay is, meaning that the player doesn't feel cheated when they lose, and they usually come close enough that they will immediately try again - add to that the limit on how many goes, and paying to unlock, and people will happily pay a small amount (a very small amount compared to time invested/enjoying the game) - but it all adds up for the developers

also they change the level design often, but dont mess around with the gameplay, which means people stay interested with the new level designs, and dont have to learn new controls, which i guess is a big deal for casual gamers

I've noticed that some levels are passable with ease, giving you a sense of victory, , but others are far more difficult. I've been getting messages to buy stuff.

App deleted.
 


edna krabappel

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I've noticed that sometimes you think you've got a game in the bag, everything is falling into place, and then you lose on the final move with the prize tantalisingly close.

Derby County, you say..?
 


Goldstone1976

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I've noticed that sometimes you think you've got a game in the bag, everything is falling into place, and then you lose on the final move with the prize tantalisingly close.

Derby County, you say..?

Now that is just evil. Very funny, mind :lolol:
 



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