Candy Crush got sued over those Facebook notifications — but not for the reason you think

A federal judge in Chicago said this week that a proposed class-action lawsuit may proceed against King, maker of the addictive Candy Crush Saga game you and your friends couldn’t stop playing in 2013.

Plaintiff Zachery Liston alleges that King offered players free lives if they connected their accounts to Facebook and marketed Candy Crush to their friends. Then — without warning, Liston’s suit says — King deleted the lives.

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