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Originally Posted by Zebron2

Myself and hundreds of thousands of other Clash players are about to severely reduce the time we spend playing the game, or quit altogether. Given their resources and ability to do market research, Supercell must have anticipated the huge negative backlash for this update (although I cannot be sure about this).

Speculation:

1. Based on the statistics that they have access to Supercell realized a few months ago that revenue was declining as the biggest spenders began maxing out, completing their push to Legend, and spending fewer gems.

2. Realizing that fewer new players were joining the game and spending, SC analyzed profitability and decided to focus on the 5% of players that traditionally supply the majority of the revenue.

3. Knowing full well that the update would wreck the game for the majority, SC focused exclusively on the 5%, to provide them with new content and gameplay possibilities, and provide incentive to spend again.

Conclusion/tldr: SC believes that CoC is approaching end of life, and instead of trying to reinvigorate it, they have decided to squeeze their cashcow one last time.

Your thoughts?

z

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My thoughts exactly!

A lot of people want to play casually sometimes, and not worry about their base getting flattened 2+ times a day. TH snipes allowed themthe chance to get a shield and avoid a major attack on their base, if they got lucky. Now, if you have any loot worth attacking for, you will get a full on attack for sure.

The ability to casually paly this game and not lose all your resources, was a major plus to many players. These changes are great for very active attackers. The people who attack less then a few times a day, are going to really feel some pain.

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Originally Posted by MandarDeodhar

So, imagine a new player .. how is he suppose to understand all this ? These changes may be good and may make gameplay more interesting (or fair as per supercell) but wont it make too much of learning curve for entry level people ?

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My experience in life can help answer this question, (some of the question, not all of it).
When you start a new game, or a job, you don't wonder what it was like before you came in, you're accepting everything the way it is currently. People that has done the same thing for years have trouble accepting the new ways, I know I have. Change sucks. But for a new person starting out has no idea what the previous experience was like, they learn what they can from the beginning. Others get on YouTube hoping someone has a good explanation on how things are supposed to be, that way they don't have to go through the same growing pains as others did. I hate change, part of human nature, but it is needed, SOMETIMES.

Someone alluded to this being like the Great Depression. That is absolutely correct. I really don't think they considered how much more elixir will be spent on armies now, for such a negligible gain in bonus and an overall LESS gain in loot (since now you have to worry about the TH when "farming"). The Federal Reserve Bank of Supercell will gravitate towards a weaker economy now. $$ will be worth more because of scarcity, but prices will stay the same for everything else, rather than going down like they typically would in a "real" economy.

This update worries me, because SuperCell seems to be trying to drive their customers a certain way rather than having their customers drive their decisions. Farming is part of the game, but they want to take that out by essentially forcing everyone to be a trophy pusher. This is a recipe for failure. If you want a strong long term product, you need to listen to your customers and give them what they want. Obviously they want to generate more revenue, but this could backfire bigtime for them.

Of course, there are still some other updates to come. If the rumors of a "gem collector" are true, it may counter the overall economic loss seemingly in store from this update. For me, they can also redeem this by making heroes active during war.

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Originally Posted by Zebron2

Myself and hundreds of thousands of other Clash players are about to severely reduce the time we spend playing the game, or quit altogether. Given their resources and ability to do market research, Supercell must have anticipated the huge negative backlash for this update (although I cannot be sure about this).

Speculation:

1. Based on the statistics that they have access to Supercell realized a few months ago that revenue was declining as the biggest spenders began maxing out, completing their push to Legend, and spending fewer gems.

2. Realizing that fewer new players were joining the game and spending, SC analyzed profitability and decided to focus on the 5% of players that traditionally supply the majority of the revenue.

3. Knowing full well that the update would wreck the game for the majority, SC focused exclusively on the 5%, to provide them with new content and gameplay possibilities, and provide incentive to spend again.

Conclusion/tldr: SC believes that CoC is approaching end of life, and instead of trying to reinvigorate it, they have decided to squeeze their cashcow one last time.

Your thoughts?

z

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I hope your wrong but everything is pointing at this being the case. It just doesn't make any sense to kill the highly populated middle ground in the game which this will surely do if that's not their plan.

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Originally Posted by PruthviUchiha

Used to play so many MMORPG games before CoC, but when I started playing CoC , I was amazed :) by how non greedy developers of this game were , letting people play this awesome game without spending a single penny on it.But now, I think I was wrong :unsure:, I should have foreseen that they'll eventually make the game favorable for gemmers.I don't think I can play like I used to anymore with no more farming.

If we are talking about skillful attacks rather than barching , there are wars for that :facepalm:!!!!, If you want us to do skillful attacks in the normal raids also , you should

• Reduce upgrade prices (Not possible)
• Increase loot bonus by significant amount (increasing 20k per raid won't do it)

• Reduce Training time of troops

If these sneak peek updates are going to be good, then please tell me how I (A person who can't spend ♥♥♥♥ load of money on the game) can upgrade with the costs so high for example a lvl10 wall which costs 3million takes atleast 9-10 good dead base raids , now Am I supposed to do GoWiPe attacks for upgrading it :thumbsdown: ,doing so which will only let me upgrade probably one wall a day i.e., 250days for 250 walls, Thank you so much for this stupid update.

I'm a TH 9.5 by farming all the way up here. I also have 456 war stars . I think I'll pass on this game with no hope now :( . RIP Farming. RIP CoC. It was great while it lasted :(

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So you are a TH9.5 complaining about upgrade costs?
I could be able to upgrade to walls to level 10 every day If I had nothing to do with resources and using barch. You can't pretend them to give you end-game content for free

I'm sorry but throphys are unchange if ur not in Titan or higher so u mean as a th8 in master 2 I'm gonna still have to get 1 throphys off a th10 with max defense just because he's in crystal I'm done good by this game is ♥♥♥♥ now u guys ruin it

I keep hoping the updates will get better ... But for the past year they have gotten worse and worse.... This one so far is taking the cake. I cannot believe what I'm reading! Maybe more will be released that can help clarify this garbage. And who knows maybe this will all work out..... But for the time being. I'm totally shocked by the mentality behind this. It's so excessively complicated and the phrase "don't fix what isn't broken" comes to mind. I'm aware of the issues with clouds and trophy offers at the higher leagues. But shields and the rest of this ♥♥♥♥ is just wrecking the game for casual players. Basically I now have to spend 3x the time and elixir to build an army just to get the same loot I used to get from barching. To me this just shows that supercell is getting more and more greedy. If this continues it WILL kill the game.

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Originally Posted by MakiOneS

And while you quit another 1000 people download the game. Clash is not dying nor SC is making less profit

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Exactly. Everyone that thinks CoC is dying, go to the Google Play Store and look at the top of the list.

I dont know if anyone else has realised but the hair on its head of the goblin has changed , was that a hint of a new goblin :/