I preferred the 'you can play as many times as you like' limit. I spent hours on that game years ago!
Same with me.... I think the limit's there though to limit what auto-playing can do. Stupid TNT, catching on to our cheat programs! Think of it this way... before, there was no real way to tell if somebody was really sitting there for 6 hours straight, or if it was just a bot doing it while the person was at school, because of how addicting the game was. Now, if a bot pulls the lever for me while I go to Burger King, I've only saved half an hour, instead of the ridiculous amount of time I could've saved before.