Supercell is doing it wrong

Let me start out by saying I love this game, but as of recently am enjoying it less and less. I am maxing out my th8, and the loot is terrible, but I'm not here to complain about that. Right now, it seems that if I want to progress, I have no choice but to spend gems, which is supercells way of making money. Their strategy now is to force a small percentage of dedicated players to spend massive sums of money on gems, which is where there profits come from. There is a better way though. I consider myself a casual player, and have spent 25$ on my 5th builder. Currently, I think about 8 million people play this game, and if they all spent the same 25$ i did, supercell would be making 200million, and that's not even counting top players who spend thousands.
I bought those builders as a new th8, when i decided this was a game i really liked. I have talked to my clan mates about this, and they all did similar things. So supercell, instead of worrying about making massive amounts off a few people, focus on the general public spending their small amounts of money. The issue is, lower lvl players now hear us whining about the loot, and realize that it might not be worth spending money on the game. Supercell, you need to reward those players who spend a small amount on the game, and make it easier for them to progress. Right now, I cant find enough loot to get all my builders working, so i might as well have saved those 25$ cause my 4th and 5th builders arent helping me now.

spot on.

Funny how so often in real life when you try to help somebody, it's the last thing they ever want to hear.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

Supercell are doing it right. They've made TWO GAMES and they make more money than EA (mobile), who have made over 900 Mobile games. Their business plan works, regardless if you like it or not.

If SuperCell was doing it wrong, then explain why SuperCell is so popular?

Btw... Huva Suomi!

I agree with you

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Originally Posted by chummer1010

If SuperCell was doing it wrong, then explain why SuperCell is so popular?

Btw... Huva Suomi!

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Making money now is not the same as future money.

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Originally Posted by chummer1010

If SuperCell was doing it wrong, then explain why SuperCell is so popular?

Btw... Huva Suomi!

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First mover advantage. But other companies (such as EA-as mentioned by ballistik) are hot on their heels. They made 900 games and know what they're doing and their clan wars works. You snooze you lose.

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Originally Posted by ballistiikx

Supercell are doing it right. They've made TWO GAMES and they make more money than EA (mobile), who have made over 900 Mobile games. Their business plan works, regardless if you like it or not.

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A month and a half ago I would have agreed with you. Now, not so much.

Example. Im a commercial pilot. Almost every airport has an airport gas station. That gas station(FBO) usually has to rent space/rights to sell from the owner of an airport (city/county whatever). Well my airport got a new gas station because some cocky business owner came in and underbid the long standing previous operator. This is a small town airport mind you. Well, this new guy decides that he's gonna charge a landing fee for anyone that parks an airplane in front of his building. Mind you the city owns the airport and does not charge landing fees. Usually only huge metropolitan airports charge landing fees. Certainly not a hicktown airport in the USA. He does not have the right to charge a landing fee but nobody knows that. Also he's charging about 25 cents more than the surrounding airports for fuel and charges a callout fee for after hours service. Well guess what...we buy more fuel than anyone on this airfield and we stopped buying fuel from him. Another pilot/entreprenuer in town started up a new FBO to directly compete with him and is very popular and putting the person charging landing fees out of business. The only thing saving him is a fuel contract with the UPS and FEDEX charter plane.

Point is...Supercell may be making an extremely short-term gain in revenue at the expense of their brand and reputation. If the gameplay sux, you can't make money off of nobody playing.

Finding a way to gouge and then calling it a sound business strategy...hmmm, well ok if that's what you think. Gougers need to take the money and run because it's never sustainable.

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Originally Posted by Braddeller

First mover advantage. But other companies (such as EA-as mentioned by ballistik) are hot on their heels. They made 900 games and know what they're doing and their clan wars works. You snooze you lose.

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Right, clan wars, which means that they ripped off clash of clans. If you don't like the game, if you don't like how Supercell runs things, then go play some copy of Clash of Clans.

Not sure if this is right thread to post this.. but i just want supercell to know, since last update, my clan buddy keep saying same thing, we can get decent base to attack! We press Next until $100k gold! And all of base come out even less than $100k. If we found a decent one, we just cant afford to attack.. seems people with th7 & below cant participate anymore..how d hell we can upgrade (lets say $720k) when all our loot is below $100k? I did try to save some like 300k, but when i left d game, i got rob! Even to get $1m is impossible. Last time i can make $200-400k for every attack. Damn i hate dis ♥♥♥♥ now

You say that you are coming here to not complain about the loot and this post was only about that. SC has done things for reasons. They do it for money. The loot has been terrible for a while. Just suck it up and be more active. That is all I can say. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by SynysterGates

Not sure if this is right thread to post this.. but i just want supercell to know, since last update, my clan buddy keep saying same thing, we can get decent base to attack! We press Next until $100k gold! And all of base come out even less than $100k. If we found a decent one, we just cant afford to attack.. seems people with th7 & below cant participate anymore..how d hell we can upgrade (lets say $720k) when all our loot is below $100k? I did try to save some like 300k, but when i left d game, i got rob! Even to get $1m is impossible. Last time i can make $200-400k for every attack. Damn i hate dis ♥♥♥♥ now

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Well, I find myself hiding behind shields with full storages... So...

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Originally Posted by chummer1010

Right, clan wars, which means that they ripped off clash of clans. If you don't like the game, if you don't like how Supercell runs things, then go play some copy of Clash of Clans.

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We're actually playing a rip-off anyways, as far as clan wars they didn't rip-off, because it's not implemented yet, nor possibly it would be in the future.

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Originally Posted by chummer1010

Right, clan wars, which means that they ripped off clash of clans. If you don't like the game, if you don't like how Supercell runs things, then go play some copy of Clash of Clans.

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While clash of clans copied from backyard monsters? In this world, just look around you... from products to advertising everything is a ripoff from somewhere. It's about implementation buddy, if you implement it better you win. Hope you're playing from a Motorola since you are so original...

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Originally Posted by ballistiikx

Supercell are doing it right. They've made TWO GAMES and they make more money than EA (mobile), who have made over 900 Mobile games. Their business plan works, regardless if you like it or not.

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Your right.
Supercell has made some very popular games, but I'm referring to the future. I feel liked they've milked COC as much as they can, and need to look into new ways to make money off it.