How many hours does it take to reach the last level? Doesn't that game have over 600 levels? At 10 minutes average per level we're talking about 100+ hours, which is several weeks of full-time occupation. If you have lots of friends who did that, we're talking about collectively months of FTE. If those had been paid hours, how much money would they have earned in that time?

I'm not going anywhere with this, just wondering about the staggering amount of time that gets sucked into games like candy crush.

The game has been out for more than a year. So you can get far playing just half an hours or so a day. Unless your goal is to beat the game as fast as possible, you'll get there eventually.

Even I am at level 450 before I kinda quit playing it.

> If those had been paid hours, how much money would they have earned in that time?

This is no different from playing other games or activities. Unless you are pushing this particular game as evil, I don't see the point of saying "he could have spent that time doing better thing than watching movie or playing game I don't like".

Also, isn't it great that I can spent my time on a single game instead of having to move on to new game all the time?

There's a perl script that will talk to the server and complete the game ...