Until late January, I had been happily addicted to Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook. Then the developers decided to "upgrade" the game with a bunch of new features like earning coins to buy boosts that "may" help in game play. I was among those invited to test the Beta version and submit comments. The coin collection is done through matching certain gems which is very distracting when the coins fly across the screen. With and even without the boosts, this new version is slower than the old. I said I wasn't impressed and preferred to "earn" my scores through SKILL rather than "buying" them with bonuses. Since the new version went up there have been thousands of complaints in the discussion forum of the fan page, but the BB developers don't really seem to care that we aren't happy or that they have ruined a perfectly good game that was a quick challenging diversion for countless fans. It just isn't fun anymore!
There was another game - Jewel Puzzle 2 that was available for awhile but it has now been overtaken by a scam/spam that requires answering a question and submitting cell # to gain access.
JP2 was almost the same as BB but allowed for longer play depending on speed and points earned. I actually got a score just over 1 million in 2:22! My highest on BB was a 390K but I often had over 200K. Now I rarely get over 100K! Despite being legally blind, I was almost always able to do well with this game and beat the fully sighted and people 1/2 my age.
I am now in withdrawal for that "quick fix" of one minute match 3 game play! I still have more than a dozen match 3 games on my PC but not always the time/desire to play longer rounds in the upper levels. Does anyone know of some freeware similarities or online versions of BB or JP2 that I could try? Thanks!
