Is Clash of Clans Dying?

Only Supercell's accountants can tell you for sure.

From my point of view, it's certainly past its peak. This is obvious when you consider the recent saturation of advertising; the more you pay to advertise, the more concerned you are about a user base - good games in their growth stage don't require massive advertising.

Their ace-in-the-hole cashcow card (TH11) is finally being played and I'm sure their profits will jump. But if they continue to not address the major flaws in the game it will eventually decline again.

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Originally Posted by aBodizeRYT

I just need your thoughts guys!!

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No it isn't dying yet , they only just announced TH11.

Not allowing heroes in war has caused me to play much less often and almost quit. War is the only fun part of the game and you need good heroes to get the full experience at th9. I know supercell loves getting money from people gemming heroes but I wonder how many players they lose do to it.

I feel the game is dying yes:

too many nerfs to 3* strategies. The addition of two air sweepers and the increase in building hit points causes hogs to have to take down defences slower while they are being shot at, laloon can fail due to air sweeper placement. Skeleton traps can be a nightmare to deal with and can decimate a hog or laloon raid that otherwise would have wrecked a base. The new jump spell troop AI has made it difficult to get your high dps troops into the core, forcing you at times to bring an EQ and losing a spell slot. The new queen agro has caused CC troops to cause major damage to even the best planned raids. The nerf of the poison spell causes it to no longer wipe out skeleton traps and lava pups in a timely manner. Soooooooooo many nerfs to 3 star raids and the fact that Increasing point defence DPS at the TH10 level has caused a significant nerf to an already difficult proposition of 3 starring a TH10 has turned many players to bunnies. Bunnies are now here to stay and no longer simply a bit of a nuisance ->players need them to crack these horribly difficult bases. I get it, it's here, it's only going to get worse from here on out, and there's no correcting it anymore. You can't make it easier anymore to three star or the strategy would simply be too overpowered.


Bots: the ridiculous amount of time already spent farming max walls/heroes and the u/g times, and the fact that supercell has purposely hidden collector bases thereby throttling the time we spend nexting has put the economy in the position whereby if you don't bot anymore -it's too hard to find a TH snipe in masters/champs, and it's become quite the task to max your own base. TH snipes in high trophy levels have dried up over the last few months and so have the easy loot collector raids.
Complicating the problem is the fact that if SC adds collector bases now, it's simply more loot for the bots and increases the disparity between botters and humans. Bots are here to stay. I get it.

The struggle of the honest player is real, and they're quitting.
TH11? Adding more nexting, longer u/g times, more hero levels, bases even more difficult to three star? I only see this is increasing the amount of bunny users, bots, and the disparity between the honest players.
I feel supercell has caused this ever widening disparity by making three star strats and farming way too difficult and time consuming.

The last two posts get it. Clash of Clans as really stagnated last year and has become a game of YouTube avatars for people that don't know better.

No reason at all to think its dieing

It's not dead, but Supercell needs to give the game some direction. It feels like they want it to be a farming game with a war aspect. They have to keep extending the maximum lvl to keep the farming cash rolling in, but there is a huge part of the community that wants clan war changes, and they're getting nothing so far. Clashcon was a disaster for Supercell. People wanted content and Supercell didn't deliver. That's where most of the anger is coming from.

They have a gigantic live event, people are expecting some huge news, and we get th11. That would be fine, if it came with any information. Nobody knows anything about th11. They announced a new defense, but no one knows what it does, and they haven't even named it. We also got a shadow thing that is apparently a new hero. Supercell dropped the ball.

The only thing that keep me playing clash is war,,,, the game name is clash of clans, they need to do more to war.

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Originally Posted by aur0ra85

I feel the game is dying yes:

too many nerfs to 3* strategies. The addition of two air sweepers and the increase in building hit points causes hogs to have to take down defences slower while they are being shot at, laloon can fail due to air sweeper placement. Skeleton traps can be a nightmare to deal with and can decimate a hog or laloon raid that otherwise would have wrecked a base. The new jump spell troop AI has made it difficult to get your high dps troops into the core, forcing you at times to bring an EQ and losing a spell slot. The new queen agro has caused CC troops to cause major damage to even the best planned raids. The nerf of the poison spell causes it to no longer wipe out skeleton traps and lava pups in a timely manner. Soooooooooo many nerfs to 3 star raids and the fact that Increasing point defence DPS at the TH10 level has caused a significant nerf to an already difficult proposition of 3 starring a TH10 has turned many players to bunnies. Bunnies are now here to stay and no longer simply a bit of a nuisance ->players need them to crack these horribly difficult bases. I get it, it's here, it's only going to get worse from here on out, and there's no correcting it anymore. You can't make it easier anymore to three star or the strategy would simply be too overpowered.


Bots: the ridiculous amount of time already spent farming max walls/heroes and the u/g times, and the fact that supercell has purposely hidden collector bases thereby throttling the time we spend nexting has put the economy in the position whereby if you don't bot anymore -it's too hard to find a TH snipe in masters/champs, and it's become quite the task to max your own base. TH snipes in high trophy levels have dried up over the last few months and so have the easy loot collector raids.
Complicating the problem is the fact that if SC adds collector bases now, it's simply more loot for the bots and increases the disparity between botters and humans. Bots are here to stay. I get it.

The struggle of the honest player is real, and they're quitting.
TH11? Adding more nexting, longer u/g times, more hero levels, bases even more difficult to three star? I only see this is increasing the amount of bunny users, bots, and the disparity between the honest players.
I feel supercell has caused this ever widening disparity by making three star strats and farming way too difficult and time consuming.

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I agree with all you wrote great post 👍🏻

everything that's been released except for clash con (in my opinion also) has been ON POINT! this is BY FAR the best game that's free and on multiple platforms. i totally agree with taking it slow and making little changes instead of big changes. why ruin something that is great? There sooo much for a beginner to do.

they had a troop deployment problem--> fixed
they needed to address the max th10 players --> fixed once 11 comes out
modding --> fix or address this and we are ALL good.