You know Kingdom is becoming P2W that even the whales of this 2d cookies running game decided to back out

If y'all still think that the English community is overreacting, remember that the Korean community is also enraged by this. There is now a movement in both communities to add a "plus" or "플러스" in their usernames and guild names. Spending boycotts are also being planned by whales and other top players, and there may also be playing boycotts. If patch notes confirms this info AND we will not be compensated, PLEASE join the movement. We need more people and power to show Devsis that we will not tolerate this any longer. +

Devsis becoming more greedy as time passes is so ironic because of the current story of the beasts becoming corrupted over time. Devsis secretly the 6th beast cookie confirmed??

I’m convinced that after the Black Pearl update, Devsisters has become more and more greedy, it ruined Kingdom, like really, I wish that legendary never existed. I thought paywalled decors and mystic costumes were bad but I never thought that they would literally make two versions of the same character, making the older version practically useless, like seriously, did no one at Devsisters think this was a stupid idea and that people will hate it? This hurts even more since Dark Cacao is my favorite ancient, what have they done to my king… That aside though, Ovenbreak’s new update looks way better, I love music cookies. Anyways great video as always Sofie ✨

i hope new dark cacao isn’t a whole different unit from regular cacao, but it would be rlly funny to have two dark cacaos running around in your kingdom lol edit: i saw the patch notes and um. two different dark cacao cookies! arena's gonna be pretty fun!!! not gonna lie kinda honkai-esque except for the fact you can’t put them in the same team

Really wish this was JUST a legendary costume, the most we all thought they would do is add a magic candy for Cacao. I don't think (most of) everyone was prepared to see Dark Cacao but p2w 😭💀

IF HIS AWAKENED FORM WILL BE A SEPARATE COOKIE IM GONNA BOIL MYSLELF

The official server is legit getting flamed rn lmao, well deserved if you ask me. Devsisters forgot the core aspect of Kingdom that made the game famous in the first place,its generosity. But now they forgot that and have been consumed with greed.

I honestly don't understand why they won't just release a crystal jam tbh. Like sure Ancient+ Cacao probably exists for lore reasons but STILL it's not that hard to make an ancient variant of magic candies that comes with a free costume when you upgrade it like??? BRO this is what I mean when I say Studio Kingdom succeeds at writing and fails at gameplay, IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO REHASH AN EXISTING FEATURE WITH EXTRA STEPS, who in their right minds would look at this and go "omg ancient plus so cool!!!" like whyyyy💀 Update: FUUUUUUUUCK

They should have made Dragon Lord Dark Cacao Cookie as a legendary costume.

THE INTRO??? EVEN THE WHALES ARE COMPLAINING TOO??? 😟

Kakao: peak f2p Crob: f2p if you don't care about competitive Cw: died With shadow nerfs and p2w Puzzle world: peak f2p Crk: HELL crwc : Eh?

The official discord tore this update to shreds, and like 70% of them are whales 😭😭 (I’d like to mention that the new update has been postponed to [hopefully] fix the problems that people had with it)

3:15 This reminds me of how in Ovenbreak whenever a dragon cookie gets a major update they get a second trial even tho some cookies don’t even have one 💀

Players: I hope we get a good update for once- Devsisters: LET'S MAKE ANOTHER DARK CACAO COOKIE

As a low spender A have ascension 1 holly berry pure vanilla and your telling me they’re going to useless once they their awakened from that’s stupid.

I deleted kingdom to make some space for other games, but i dont think im coming back anytime soon if this is the current state of the game. I took a very quick look (didnt read everything bc this sh!t was at 144p) at that teaser and thought that that cacao got a legendary costume, not a whole seperate cookie😭😭

Hi Sofie no Sleep, Devsisters have responded in Discord. Good News, the update got postponed and they will working to make everything better for the next update. They listened to the community now. Anyways, keep up the good work! 👍

after black pearl the game went down hill especially the anniversary and moonlight cookie that event where you were forced to get her to get all the rewards was just crazy and tragic i quit the game after that i couldnt do it anymore

CROB: no money (excluding that s9 thing...) CRKD: A L L T H E M O N E H ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

i'm personally not a kingdom player, i mainly play ovenbreak as i find kingdom to be quite boring to play (lol), but oh my god?? what is going on over there?? it really doesn't make sense for them to make dragon lord dark cacao as a completely seperate character instead of just having it as a costume. wouldn't it be easier to create a costume for an already existing character instead of having to recreate everything all over again just for it to be literally the same character? lol. anyways, that's all i really have to say. i think we should have a counter for how many bad updates devsis makes in a year..

I returned a couple months ago for White Lily Cookie, left the moment the best rarity popped up. This is really frustrating. I'm glad theres channels out there who record the stories and upload them becuase idk if I could survive with this mess!

I dropped both this game and first cookie run years ago, and now I accidentally stumbled upon this video. No regrets at all

Its just so weird to do this stupid “ancient+” seperate gacha rarity when we JUST got Beast which is cool, but we have all the ancients and legendaries, and only ONE DRAGON still. This shouldve just been a crystal jam, we havent gotten a new crystal jam in ages and those still need an update too like ENOUGH new shit flesh out whats already HERE!!

I remember where crk is still f2p freindly

i predicted they would use the same ascension way as mystic flour, and i think the data leakers proved it would be a new rarity, but why did they call it “ancient+”. god the ancients and legendaries and the dragons and defiantly the super epic (that rarity was MADE for whales) were mostly for whales, but god the beast and ancient+ guys are for the blue whales 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Ah, CRK finally competing and becoming like Identity V I see

Being here for the lore is just amazing.. The story is the best part of crk.. But like arena is gonna be in SHAMBLESSSS

2 new rarities within like 2 major updates💀. It is truly dark cacaover

I DON'T EVEN HAVE MYSTIC FLOUR!

I just checked the ratings, and now it's 4.5😭😭😭😭😭

THIS is why i quit CRK. The overwhelming thought of keeping up with the game makes it so much painful to play and feels like a chore rather than a game. Hearing dark cacao's new form being a completely separate cookie instead of a legendary costume and soul jan really pisses me off. I honestly think CRK needs more critism

It’s very sad seeing that Dark Cacao cookie’s The Awaken Form is Separate from the Ancient Dark Cacao Cookie that we have is the same as Mystic Flour Cookie as you promote Her you get accessories from the back of her and this will go the same with Dark Cacao but is Awaken Form (I’m Not Disappointed or upset with this but lots of ogs or people will be disappointed) but crk is probably running out of Rarity Ideas and other things to give it a new role they could have made Dark Cacao Cookie better or make a soul crystal jam but they decided to go with making a separate. (But I’ll still love Crk No matter What Happens.

Yall the towers PISSED ME OFFAAA, like are you kidding me rn? I can’t even beat the first level on the dark cake tower shi, HOW TF..and the old rewards from the older cake tower was removed!! This may not be a newer update cuz I haven’t played in a few months, but I am maaaaaad about the towers bro

“Caters more to the people then to the pockets” PREACH SISTER!!!🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️

Agree, like bro when moonlight cookie got that power she was looking so much different, and they made it a legendary costume! But dark cacao cookie…awakened…ancient something…..not a legendary costume? I’m dying

And here I am without having gotten Mystic Flour until now and they are already launching another banner......i love this game💀 I remember that when I was pulling for White Lily she only came in pity 250........DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GET A COOKIE BUT HAVE TO GET IN THE MAXIMUM PITY?!💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Good thing the update got delayed and the ancient plus rarity has been removed and replaced with the new awakening system. It should make it much easier because you can get the stones by logging into the game on certain days.

This is why I only play ovenbreak now💀. Like even if Ovenbreak is kinda pay to win at least its not that hard to at least get good cookies.

"Battle Cats more superior than CRK when Whaling is optional route as accelerating progress, not instant progress and advantage"

They should a made a soul jam gacha, like it would have been something that you could collect in gacha

while yes, awakened and regular dark cacao being separate would be one of the worst things to happen, on the plus side, we can have an Undertale: Time Paradox moment with this

That also means their leaving the OG ancients abandoned with no future buff just sitting their abandon just like sonic and tail cookie

Me seeing my favorite cookie getting a buff: *pure happiness* Also me seeing that its a separate cookie: *Wtf*

watch him become mystic flour 2.0 where you literally cannot win against teams with him

Screw you kingdom I'm going back to Ovenbreak. My Timekeeper misses me.

the only funny update this year in my opinion was town square, it was genuinely cool being able to interact with other people as your favorite cookie and make goofy moments

personally, i feel like crk isn’t as fun anymore, the new stuff like beast yeast and like the new costumes (all that stuff, new tower of chaos too, i can’t remember the other stuff but yeah) are just like,,not it. maybe it’s just me bc i don’t like change? like too much change..i feel like the new gold costumes and all are just..lame…and this just is like…stupid too.

Personally I do love the awaken dark cacao the design goes so well with him The new rarity’s name is kinda weird I like awaken better it feels better to say but really aren’t people gonna stop complaining about the new rarity once the update comes out cause didn’t many people complain about the many other new rarity’s but completely forgot all about the hate for them And no one has to spend so much on a mobile game for cookies either free or pay which ever you do no one will mind it’s still a game at the end of the day But yeah I do think there should be a new system to get cookies MUCH more easier like they did with ovenbreak and witch’s castle

I’m a free to play for the most part and started slowing down playing around a couple of updates ago cause I struggled way too much to keep up And seeing the state of the game now??? Yikes

As a former whale for KZfaq videos and stuff like that, I can confirm that kingdom has made it less fun and I have spent much less now because I’ve pretty much given up lol

My Dark Cacao was already maxxed ready for the new update just to see what you need to roll ANOTHER never gacha to get ANOTHER cacao.... cocky greedy devs watch out

devsisters think they are supercell 😨 😨

Quitted the game over an year ago and left the guild I founded 3 years ago in shambles. Literally nobody is online for over 2 years

My breaking point was all the way back when they did the Moonlight Kingdom cookie release boogaloo. That and the newly implemented pity system. I'm so done with the F2P/P2W grind in games now. It literally makes me want to gag now. Bring back actual fun for once, developers...

I played this game since Cotton Cookie’s update and although I deleted the game around Black Pearl’s backstory update. Got the game again around white lilie’s update and deleted it. I can confirm CRK has gonna insane on being P2W really ever since 2024 mostly. Now rarely I see epics in arena and now a bait team is barely as powerful then an average F2P team. It’s honestly really sad. When playing CRK I loved it because I can get far into the game and arena because it was so F2P now when I used to play it in 2024. I had rarely any enjoyment. Trying to get all the cookies and they were super epics, dragons, etc. To be honest I thought when they released the beast cookies or whatever they are called is so they could get more money. When I heard about it. I felt so confused because it just got thrown out of nowhere and I felt like it was just to get more money ngl.

someone play the titanic music, cuz this ship is going down

"never cook again" ahh update

I honestly thought that ancient+ was something that could be unlocked after after you ascend him(1A) and then unlock the costume or get a new appearance after 2A like mystic flour. If this is an entirely new cookie then I leveled him up to lvl 80 for what? I could've used all those star jellies and skill powders to invest in a different cookie 😭

For one sec i thought she was gonna say Whales are gay

Game burned me out months ago. This game was so P2W it’s insane

We got Peach Blossom Cookie, but at the cost of poor Dark Cacao Cookie's dignity

I first play this game when it came out and it was so generous back then, even people praised it saying its better than genshin, now i havent even touch this game or even see any content related to this game anymore for like maybe 2 years? Since it came out and now i found this… and just shocked at what they’ve become now… its crazy to think that theres lots of new stuff, like ancient and super epic

With every new game cookie run releases the previous one becomes p2w 💀🙏

I can’t wait for my special ancient plus ++ limited edition omega shining alpha deluxe edition 🔥🔥🔥🔥

They should've put the new rarity or something named "Awaken" because he like awaken a new power and a magical girl transformation

I kinda stoped playing Kingdom after they took out the option to play in portuguese bc i used to play with my friends and they don't speak English so i am soooooo lost rn

Everyone’s mad at devsisters for this update. I’m mad at them for not putting any ovenbreak characters into kingdom to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the franchise. We are not the same.

"PIUUUUREEEE GOSSIIIPAHHHHH" DAMN THAT WAS CLEANNNN

Why not just do like the Sdorica Skill book style, where instead of a whole new separate unit, is just a reskin with changes to skill to help them suit an alternative playstyle? Like an Armor Breaker becoming a True Damager, but toggleable. Changing a skill slightly so they do more damage to a specific type of enemy, but less to another. That type of thing, if they so badly want to do something new. Dark Cacao 2: Electric Boogaloo is just stupid.

Generally they could of made it a crystal jam for this, but there money hungry mfs wanted not, made a whole new rairty, 2 whole rairtys in a whole update it self (counting all the beast yest 3-4 update as one huge one(

aaawww i really like cookie kingdom TT why are they doing this, i just want cute cookies

If this is true, I think I might reconsider if I should keep playing kingdom for the most part. I play all three (CROB, CRK, and CRWC) but play kingdom the most. Might have to switch to mainly CROB for fun and CRWC for lore. So sad CRK is turning more P2W, and I’m losing that fun it had playing events. Plz devsis, don’t make it a whole separate cookie and just make it a soul/crystal jam (prolly won’t since it is now confirmed by leaks but still)

Dont forget nowadays most players can't sign inside the game its "glitched", that's how bad it is. Plus they didnt brought Sonic Cookie back in July? Hello? His bday passed??? Atleast he should be free for those who don't have him (and Tails.) I've been trying for weeks and the game keeps saying "you can't use an account that was deleted, you have to wait 30 days." I didn't delete any account, and if i try to use the method i used to get in it doesnt work.

It's like the Dan Heng thing from Honkai star rail

wonder how things are gonna progress 🫢

with the game being really unoptimized and crashing for a lot of people, now adding in this update to the mix, i think kingdoms cooked here if they dont fix this mess I havent really dealt with the crashing at all, but I HAVE dealt with horrible luck [gc, wl, and hell even mystic flour have taken me more than 150 pulls and ive literally grinded out all but 3 missions on the light of apathy event] i might see if my luck turns around but i highly doubt ill even have the motivation for kingdom. At least tower of adventures is almost here... It just feels tiring going after the new meta cookies, especially when you have really well leveled cookies and they cant be used because they're not in the meta. (especially sea fairy, who i thought was going to be in meta after her crystal jam update....nope) tldr: kingdom's screwed, honestly. esp with how horribly unoptimized the game is already. a shame we once had a really good game that fell to shambles to its greed.

Remember when a few years ago everyone was praising DevSisters for generosity? Sad story

honestly they could've just gave him a soul jam and make a legendary skin.. also if you're able to use both of the dark cacao, imagine the chaos when white lily and golden cheese cookie gets their awakened version 💀

this situation reminds me of Honkai Impact. Because like, it’s just the same characters, Kiana Kaslana, Raiden Mei, just repeats.

3:56 "Whales are gay-" caught in 4k!!/jk

I quitted this game 3 years ago and remember how f2p friendly it was and then suddenly I read this video's comments section and everyone is saying that Devsis has became greedy??? Wtf happened😭

I'm an og player of CRK that has already pre-registered the game before it's release. The game starts out nice,, the packages are in an affordable price, got me grinding on the game a lot and even stop being F2P during the Disney collaboration event. But ever since the Moonlight update, it's harder to get legendary cookies (Like Stardust for example) and it's harder to get more pulls than how it used to be. After 2 years more of playing that game, I quit. People used to compare CRK with Genshin like how DevSis is more generous than Hoyo etc.. until it's not anymore. The game is getting grindy ever since the dragon update, which is the update before the mermaid's tale. A lot of my friends who is also an OG player decides to quit the game for how p2w it has become. Those old characters that are used to be op has now become a laughing stock if you use them in Arena for DevSis protecting the power creep or DevSis decide not to buff those old characters, making them seen as "weak", etc. it's sad seeing your favorite character get replaced for them being old

I haven't spend one single dollar un this game and I will never do it. I have been playing this thing daily since the realse of Frost Queen. I fucking completed the Disney update and that was hell. I have a full ascended Pure vanilla, 3 starts ascended Dark Cacao and 2 starts ascended Holly Berry. I really thought that awaken Dark Cacao was a legendary costume like Lily + a Cristal Jam. What they were thinking doing this update??? I'm really invested in the story and I don't want to leave the game for this situation.

This is why I prefer crob then crk.. like what the fuck do we need a other rarity we didn't even ask for another dam. Rarity. Stop making us suffer devsis with that bullcrap 😡

And let's not start by saying that they removed the ARENA DECORS and EVERYONE seems okay with it, what happened to this game? It feels so soulless and everything feels like a paywall bro.

I don't get it I'm ftp and I have no problem with the game whatsoever, I have almost all the cookies and built the cookies pretty good sure sometimes I get shafted but oh well what am I going to do its a gatcha game afterall, and also devsisters have been generous as well so I don't understand why there's so much backlash, also I'm laughing when people found out its the same cookie (just an awakening) not a separate unit lmao it feels mostly like the community is trying to cope for either not being lucky or just being bad at the game (skill issue I guess lmao), and also on top of it I haven't seen whales or ftp talk badly about the updates.

I’m gonna be saving my judgement until it’s actually released. Never rlly liked being on the “suddenly think of the worst oh this is gonna suck.” Bandwagon.

Okay I spend quite a few dollars like at most 50 when a big update comes out but this update has run me dry and I can’t spend anymore

I thought it would be a crystal jam for ancients that change their fit

Still been trying to get mystic flour and now HE COMES OUT?? How am I supposed to catch up with the meta? This reminds me of the times I grinded so hard for moonlight and stardust (did not get them till longer after)

They better make the drop chance 50%

Me trying to get that one super rare cookie that never come home This is so hard imma saved up and maybe i get lucky for once! Cookie run devs : hey look this new dark cacao cookie just come out! Me : f*ck i barely get OG dark cacao 2/3 star... 😭

this is why i quit before the lvl 70 update been slowly feeling that shits getting too much

They should have just added all this to the og dark cacao, and the design should've been a legendary costume, L devsis

8:35 hehe good music choice!

I feel like awaken ancients (I refuse to call them ancient plus) should be like upgrades, like magic candy but you have to meet certain requirements to unlock them, it would still feel like bull but it’s a lot better than whatever this is

Only started playing this game for strawberry crepe cookie and haven’t played since I maxed them out

And i wanted to save stuff up for the pink beast cookie..(forgot her name) but with this monstrosity of an update..i might just quit and sell my account

What's crazy to me is to hear Devsis getting flamed for being greedy. Because I'm pretty sure Devsis was getting praised for being generous back during CRK's release, when Sea Fairy was the only legendary. Like just how bad did it escalate throughout the years