Consumer Apps · Gaming (mobile) · Private litigation
Candy Crush / King (Microsoft-owned, via Activision Blizzard)
Headline
A putative class action filed in late September 2025 in a Los Angeles court by player Ruben Valenzuela (reported by Aftermath, Oct. 1, 2025) alleges King/Activision Blizzard ran the 2023 Candy Crush All Stars…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
A putative class action filed in late September 2025 in a Los Angeles court by player Ruben Valenzuela (reported by Aftermath, Oct. 1, 2025) alleges King/Activision Blizzard ran the 2023 Candy Crush All Stars tournament, a $250,000 event, while secretly allowing 'super users' with unfair advantages, letting some players cheat by playing offline to hide their real scores, and never disclosing any of this to the people spending real money and countless hours chasing the prize — the complaint alleges the company knew about the rigged conditions and let them continue anyway.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Case status. Private litigation; no sources are on file yet, so no legal tier is assigned.
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected.
Data sharing
King's privacy policy explicitly confirms use of player data for TARGETED ADVERTISING in partnership with third-party advertising partners, and explicitly frames continued use of its games as acceptance of that targeted-advertising data use — i.e., there is no way to play Candy Crush and opt out of data collection entirely, only an opt-in/opt-out for the advertising-targeting USE of already-collected data. Fordham CLIP's 2017-18 'Privacy in Gaming' study examined the data practices of the most popular mobile games with particular attention to child gamers (its summary page does not list the games, and whether it covers Candy Crush Saga was not confirmed); the concern applies to Candy Crush given its broad, cross-generational player base that includes many children despite not being explicitly marketed as a kids' game — a 'mixed-audience' risk category the FTC has specifically flagged as an enforcement priority for 2026 COPPA compliance.
Fees and billing
Not itemized this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. No published privacy email; Microsoft routes requests via microsoft.com/concern/privacy (30-day response commitment)
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. PARENT ADDRESS ONLY — verify before using for legal notice. King is a Stockholm-based studio held through Activision Blizzard (Santa Monica, CA). Parent: Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
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| Privacy policy king.com/privacyPolicy | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service king.com/termsAndConditions | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.