Dear Anoushka, by papparazi

This post was in response to Anoushka's thread. it deserved its own thread and hopefully an answer.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by mmpaparazzi

Dear Anoushka,

was Clash ever intended to become as successful as it became?

In my normal life I am a Marketing and Business Consultant with my own company. I am no fool. I can tell you there is one thing that many broke companies have in common: at the apex of their success they all changed their business model profoundly. They stopped doing what made them successful and startet something "that they always wanted to be this way"...

Consider carefully: Customers don't pay for something that YOU want but for things that THEY want.

Your success is the result of providing a frame. This frame was big enough for millions of players to paint their own picture of fun gaming within its margins. Now you took a look at these millions of paintings and you didn´t like many of them. Your solution is to narrowing the frame, so that MOST pictures can not be painted the same way as before.

Now two things will happen:

1. Some will draw new paintings within the new frame and perhaps discover a "new form of art" which they can enjoy. Maybe you will have to help them to discover these new ideas.
2. Others will leave for they are no longer able to unfold themselves within the restrictions of the narrowed frame. The longer you do nothing but watch their rewardless struggle to gain back fun, the more will leave.

Some serious advice for free:

- Attacking is fun, waiting is not.
- Making profit is fun, losing resources even with a successful attack is not.
- Defending successfully is fun, being punished for good defense with loss of resources is not.
- Not being able to attack successfully unless you are a maxed-out-fulltime-deadly-professional-tactical-masterkiller-attacker is not fun, unless you are a maxed-out-fulltime-deadly-professional-tactical-masterkiller-attacker.

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Mavendotte

This post was in response to Anoushka's thread. it deserved its own thread and hopefully an answer.

---

Well said.

That's a great one!

Alway must remember that they have to "pay the bills" somehow. I do agree with this, however. Good post :thumbsup:

I feel like this game could go on for a very long time if supercell listens to the community wants. I don't know how hard it would be to implement this but I suggest putting an in game poll for one week after an update drops. The poll asks what each player wants in the next update. Supercell can list a few things then of course there can be a write in ballot. This could happen every 2 months. At the beginning of the year they could have a big poll for the end of the year major update. Just an idea I came up with. I think this would get clash to last for a very long time.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by DaBlues

I feel like this game could go on for a very long time if supercell listens to the community wants. I don't know how hard it would be to implement this but I suggest putting an in game poll for one week after an update drops. The poll asks what each player wants in the next update. Supercell can list a few things then of course there can be a write in ballot. This could happen every 2 months. At the beginning of the year they could have a big poll for the end of the year major update. Just an idea I came up with. I think this would get clash to last for a very long time.

---

There already is an Improvements & Suggestions forum here for exactly this.

a well put together response that I really hope the COC developers will take into consideration. clear, concise, full of positive suggestions.

We've beat this horse to death... I think the changes were dumb. The way it was wasn't hurting anyone and everybody complaining about the whiners must not have th sniped anyway since they are so condescending about it. What was the old way hurting anyone???

Don't say snipes took away attack opportunities because I never got a message in game saying "try again later all available bases have a shield."

I like the OP and agree we grew to like the game how it was. Millions of people did, why then after 3 years is it suddenly not the correct way... All about pushing more profits sadly. I don't care I'm not quiting and I've only spent about $50 in two years but I will never understand why such huge changes were made to the most successful mobile game available. Clearly it wasn't broken

People should send their letters via PM or the mail, not make a new thread. IF your purpose is to address developers then just send your messages to them.

Also unless your company is a mobile game company that develops freemium games, your expertise as a "marketing and business consultant" has little value in my opinion.

People spend too much time trying to draw parallels between SC and companies from completely different industries to try and prove a point.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by patcat

a well put together response that I really hope the COC developers will take into consideration. clear, concise, full of positive suggestions.

---

What suggestions? He's just making statements

- Attacking is fun, waiting is not. What are you waiting for?
- Making profit is fun, losing resources even with a successful attack is not. You want a game where you aren't allowed to lose... awesome.
- Defending successfully is fun, being punished for good defense with loss of resources is not. A good defense and lost all a lot of resources? Oxymoron
- Not being able to attack successfully unless you are a maxed-out-fulltime-deadly-professional-tactical-masterkiller-attacker is not fun, unless you are a maxed-out-fulltime-deadly-professional-tactical-masterkiller-attacker. That's just a flat out lie.

Very well said...there is much truth found within.