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Candy Crush Saga is a free-to-play mobile match-three puzzle video game released by King on April 12, 2012, for Facebook; other versions for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Windows 10 followed. It is a variation on their browser game Candy Crush.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Candy Crush users through our website.
- Glitches (38%)
- Sign in (24%)
- App Crashing (24%)
- Online Features (10%)
- Microtransactions (5%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Candy Crush outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Portes-lès-Valence
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App Crashing | 6 days ago |
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Lyon
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Glitches | 1 month ago |
 Brighton
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Glitches | 1 month ago |
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Brighton
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Sign in | 1 month ago |
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Brighton
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Sign in | 1 month ago |
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Brighton
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Glitches | 1 month ago |
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Candy Crush Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Rob (@SamuraiPizzaRob) reported@conrat4567 Using the term “non gamers” in your own tweet sort of helps make the point that attitudes have not really shifted that much. Which is half the problem. Someone can play Candy Crush every day on their commute and will still say ‘oh my know I’m not one of *those* people’.
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Chris Fox (@heychrisfox) reported@quadrapuni @_Hero_Hei_ The only issue I have with this is they are not easy to replace. Viewing devs as replaceable commodities is how we ended up in this situation. We fired the expensive people with talent, and hired Jessica who said she played candy crush 1 time, losing all that institutional knowledge.
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craig shostak (@mymets86) reported@msSharanKaur the problem isn't the census, it's Mr. Candy Crush delivering it.
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Pixel Operative (@PixelOperative) reportedIs this the beginning of the end for Xbox? One telling data point for me is that King and Mojang are the biggest studios at Xbox. When you think of Xbox, do you think of Minecraft and Candy Crush? I know I don't. I guess that's the problem. Studios being sold off: * Compulsion Games * Double Fine Productions * Ninja Theory * Undead Labs * Arkane appears to be closing entirely.
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Nahum✝️ ⚓🐟︎(Nico Robin's) (@naheshas) reported@soupybabee @KounaraChan It's not a problem for me to say I'm in a female domiant space when i say I play Candy crush, as if I were a woman and I say , I play RPGs which are male dominant space.
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𝓓𝓪𝓲𝓼𝔂 𝓑𝓮𝓷𝓳𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓷… (@daisybenjamin_) reportedworking out or playing candy crush
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Ryland Grace (the one with the sick mullet) (@SadOldSpaceMan) reported@1Hope4Human1ty I’m hiding in a hole in the beach playing Candy Crush, loneliness is the least of my problems at the moment.
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power_mac (@PJJMD) reported@cheeseonearth @edwardrow The fact that they have to cram all their ******* use into the one half day they have off is the real issue with 15 hours in the candy crush mines.
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Alex Minecan (@alexpagepilot) reportedmeta's ad dashboard is blending your numbers and hiding where your money actually goes. here's the report that shows the truth ads manager > select any campaign > breakdown > by placement what you'll see: your $6 CPM is actually $14 on facebook feed (where people buy) blended with $2 on audience network (where people accidentally tap while playing candy crush). meta averages them to make the number look good. your "cost per impression" looks cheap. your cost per BUYING impression is 2-3x higher than the dashboard shows the fix: go to ad set level > placements > manual placements > uncheck audience network entirely. also uncheck messenger. these placements inflate your reach with garbage impressions from people who will never buy. they exist so meta can charge you for volume one operator turned off audience network and messenger. dashboard CPM went from $8 to $13. cost per PURCHASE went from $22 to $14. the CPM looked worse. the results got better. because every impression now went to a placement where people actually shop while you're there: breakdown > by time of day. you'll see which hours convert and which burn money. most stores: 10am-3pm weekdays is the lowest converting window. 9-11pm weeknights is the highest. you're paying the same rate for both. schedule your ads to increase spend during the hours that convert and decrease during the hours that don't. same total budget. more conversions
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TanningChatum (@TanningChatumm) reported@transromano Now do this for cops playing candy crush and padding their pension in their last couple of year working.
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Edgy Boi (@Deadfool6969) reported@Sir_Dammed The big issue is how the demographics of games like Candy Crush is used to torture statistics and give companies misleading data. There is no amount of gay race feminism that will get Candy Crush moms to play Call of Duty.
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EvilCat (@Evilkatto) reported@Luseraphiel @tajbanis @BleuSpheres I think the problem is that we call very disparate things "games". At least I'd separate gamey games and cinematic experiences (CinEx anyone?). I even have my doubts if Candy Crush (the original, from the web portal) should be in the same category as Candy Crush Saga (MTX-based).
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Mike Chong (@realMikeChong) reportedanother great Chinese invention after DeepSeek and GLM-5.2: 90-second fake billionaire divorce dramas that somehow make more money than Netflix on mobile sounds stupid until you look at the business model it’s not really “streaming” it’s TikTok + soap opera + mobile game monetization you get a crazy opening: poor girl secretly married the billionaire CEO evil stepmom humiliates her ex-boyfriend appears someone gets slapped then right before the reveal… episode ends next episode costs coins this is the important part: Chinese short dramas are not competing with HBO they’re competing with TikTok, Candy Crush, gambling loops, romance novels, and boredom the user is not thinking: “is this cinema?” they’re thinking: “wait what happens next?” that is a much stronger business than people want to admit the format exploded in China because it solved 3 problems at once: creators could produce much faster than normal film/TV platforms already had short-video traffic web-novel style storytelling already trained users to pay chapter by chapter China basically turned internet novels into vertical video vending machines and the unit economics are brutal traditional streaming: spend huge money make 8 episodes hope people subscribe wait months for feedback short drama: make cheap episodes test the hook immediately kill what doesn’t convert scale what makes people pay it’s closer to mobile gaming than Hollywood and that’s why the App Store rankings look insane you now have these short drama apps ranking above serious billion-dollar streaming platforms not because the shows are better because the loop is sharper Netflix asks for attention short dramas demand resolution big difference the other interesting part: this format is now going global ReelShort, DramaBox, ShortMax, DramaWave, NetShort, etc. same structure, localized tropes: US market: werewolves, mafia romance, secret babies, billionaire husbands China market: revenge, family status, hidden identity, social mobility fantasy SEA/LATAM/India: localized melodrama + mobile-first payment loops this is also why AI video matters Seedance 2.0 and similar models won’t instantly create a perfect 90-minute movie wrong mental model the first real use case is much smaller: generate test scenes make fake trailers localize actors/backgrounds A/B test hooks turn scripts into animatics make ads faster produce low-budget vertical scenes cheaper short drama is one of the first entertainment categories where “AI slop” may actually be economically native because the audience is not paying for prestige they’re paying for: plot velocity emotional payoff identity fantasy cliffhanger resolution so the question is not: “can AI make cinema?” the question is: “can AI make the next 90 seconds addictive enough that someone pays 99 cents?” that is a much easier problem and probably a much bigger market than people think my take: short dramas will not replace Netflix but they will take time and spend from mobile games, romance apps, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and casual entertainment the next big entertainment company may not look like Disney it may look like a game studio running hundreds of tiny soap operas with AI-assisted production and casino-level retention math
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Ryan (@Ryan25700722538) reported@Roo_VT See, the problem there is that mobile games skew the statistics and candy crush isn't exactly what people are talking about when they talk about video games.
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KHudsonStories (@KMH_Stories) reportedGen-Z is not lazy or stupid, and telling them they are will just make things worse. They have executive function issues as a result of being handed a screen ever since they were children by moms who became addicted to candy crush by the time the kids were around 7.
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DJH32X (@DJH32X) reported@PatManJones62 @nib95_ All in would mean console only exclusives They are in huge financial trouble and have been for a decade Only Activision is making profit with candy crush, wow and cod.
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BabaGod (@BabaGodBanger) reported@asha_shar We might be in time line where sony having downfall and xbox returns to it's old self in a way from early 2000s Decision to not close studio quickly i guess was right, the one who should be fired /laidoff are people in charge of those studios and i agree that that xbox should focus on games and studio who are working fully,and are not idle or making sloppy games Time for halo franchise as top xbox game is gone now too, minecraft and candy crush definitely carrying it now 🔥 I do hope halo studios do something productive and make good halo games But having them Activision... They might milk it like callofduty, just hope story and gameplay stay good Future of gaming is grim but not lost yet Sony falling down with their stupid decisions , xbox need to rise up
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leonardoro (@leonardoro_) reported@acolombiadev when i hired for hbo, many candidates had used only netflix. i see no problem. when i hired for candy crush, i never cared if they played it as long as they could bring examples of other games. nowadays, working with HSMs, i am happy if someone knows what it is.
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Bodega Sushi (@InshallahVato) reported@spencerpratt I’m ok with my taxes helping the working class instead of being used for NYPD lawsuits / more cops do sit around and play candy crush
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ademiji💗 (@j1s0l4_) reportedThis is such a non-issue, but I was playing candy crush the other day. I was in a challenge that I was very close to winning, and I had a timed booster, I'll lose both if I lose a level. Wasted all my hard-earned gold bars on extra moves on this stupid level
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Johnny Utah (actual surfer) (@_perlstein) reportedBPD love working detail on Grateful Dead and Phish shows at Fenway Park because they get paid to stand around playing Candy Crush while raking in overtime to look intimidating in the presence of the worst affluent people imaginable that are tripping *****
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Azuris (@Azuris753) reported@RohanKarMooN That is one of the problems why we have ****** games, management and others don't differ between Candy Crush and Starcraft. Both are games, but very different customer base, even if they overlap.
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Matt Gerken (@matt_gerken) reported@rpwbrowne To say they don’t have the IP is crazy. Elder Scrolls Fallout Doom Quake Wolfenstein Minecraft Overwatch Call of Duty Candy Crush Crash Bandicoot Diablo Guitar Hero King’s Quest Space Quest Spyro the Dragon StarCraft Tenchu Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater World of Warcraft Fable etc
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LamboCorp © 🌎👑🏰🏝️💵 (@lamboc0rp) reported@FreeSolGamesDev @AzFlin @Poki Problem is the barrier to success with low skill games like candy crush is you can't get attention among a million similar games. Back to the distribution problem
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جلوريا (@timoteotoronja) reported@bad_beaner everyone at the mexican consulate is slow asf. they told me it was gonna be half an hour to process my passport and it ended up taking five whole hours while they no joke played candy crush
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Clarissa (@fluffykittensox) reported@tumblr Tumblr sweetie please fix your ads. There’s a candy crush one that is bugging out and there’s no way to report it because it’s bugging out and the only way to get rid of it is close the app and lose one’s place.
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The Welder (@RadiatedEngine) reportedBack to playing candy crush. He may have a problem-
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30 (@prewardarkroom) reportedLA metro discourse triggers psychosis. It’s not good. It’s slow, it goes halfway to nowhere, and there’s always someone in distress while cops play candy crush.
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BotOrNot (@KaptainPetrovs) reportedThe Air India Boeing 787 has flight recorders, satellite feeds, and NVM chips tracking everything down to the pilot's heart rate, but the government is still convinced Aunt Priya's Candy Crush high score holds the key to the crash.
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Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) reportedThe new boss of Xbox took one of its biggest games and put it on PlayStation, the console its arch-rival sells. It sounds like a mistake. Instead, it became the best-selling new game on PlayStation last year and has passed 5 million copies, beating Sony's own new games. That single move tells you what Asha Sharma is really doing. She took over Xbox in February 2026, after Phil Spencer, who had run it for years, retired. At Bloomberg's tech conference this week, an interviewer asked what winning would look like by 2030. Her answer was blunt: the number one gaming and entertainment company in the world. Xbox is not there yet. She even called the business "not in a healthy spot," with sales falling in four of the last six quarters. So she stopped trying to win the old fight. For decades, consoles worked one way: you keep your best games locked to your own machine, so people have to buy it to play them. Sony does this better than anyone, selling close to three PlayStations for every Xbox. Sharma looked at those odds and walked away. Now she sells Xbox's games to the people who already bought a PlayStation, and last year Forza, Doom, Indiana Jones, and a stack of others showed up on Sony's console. A 70 dollar game brings in the same 70 dollars no matter whose machine you play it on. The bigger prize is reach. A few years back, Microsoft paid 75.4 billion dollars for the company behind Call of Duty and Candy Crush, the most expensive deal gaming has ever seen. Candy Crush alone has more than 200 million players a month, most of them on their phones, not on an Xbox. Count every phone, PC, console, and TV, and a Microsoft game now reaches over 500 million people a month. Sony's online network reaches 132 million. Her other moves point the same way. She cut the price of Game Pass, the monthly games subscription that works like Netflix, after admitting last year's price jump had chased people off. Sign-ups started climbing again. She scrapped an Xbox AI assistant because players did not want it and it solved no real problem. And she revealed the next Xbox, a machine built to play both Xbox games and PC games. None of this is a sure thing. The chips Xbox needs keep getting pricier instead of cheaper, because the AI boom is buying them up, and Sony still crushes Xbox on console sales. What Sharma has done is change the scoreboard. She is racing to reach the most players on every device that exists, and by that count, Xbox already sits near the top.