Proposal To Supercell: Create A Player Council

Dear Supercell,

The recent unprecedented level of outrage over the December 2015 update demonstrates that you have been out of touch with a significant portion of your playerbase. Many of the adverse effects of this update were warned of by players in this forum before the update was even released. If these players had been able to interact with the development team to provide input during the planning stages of this update, the severity of these effects might have been mitigated and as a result, you might have avoided quite a bit of the player backlash.

Because I feel that player input is vital to the success of any game, I would like to propose that you create a Player Council. This would be a group of players chosen by you, representing a wide range of play styles (trophy pushing, warring, farming, casual, etc.). These players would sign an NDA and would participate in discussions, surveys, etc. related to future planned updates, before those updates reach pre-alpha stage.

Here is an example of a successful Player Council that was implemented for another game I've played called LOTR Online: https://www.lotro.com/en/game/articl...layers-council (Note to Mods: I am using this game as an example because it is a PC/MAC game that does not directly compete with any Supercell games since it is on a completely different platform, therefore it should not be in violation of Forum Rule #6). The developers of this game are clearly interested in actively communicating with their players and I think this is good example of how to build a good rapport with your playerbase, something I'm sure most CoC players feel has been severely lacking during this whole crisis.

I hope you will give serious consideration to creating a Player Council because I think it would go a long way towards repairing the damaged relationship with your players. I think it would be a win-win for both Supercell and players alike.

Yes lets hold democratic elections too with secret ballot. Lets split game specialists into parties who would advice supercell.

No man this isn't a country

I see you put some effort into this well thought out mate. Honestly, if the devs just visited the forums for Q&As even once a month the communication would improve immensely.

I am supposing they do, not sure anyways just a wild guess.

Do you think they care at all?

the problem with this is that clearly not everyone on here agrees with each others views. And who gets picked into this could simply just ruin the game.

Not gonna work

Have seen this work in other games so not totally without merit, my preference though would be for a supercell employee to have a much higher engagement level with the player base on these forums.

agree with you on this.....

Lets not add another layer to the hierarchy. SC should be able to analyze feedback directly from the community.

Besides the mods already have this role.

lol.... Yeah right

Pick me coach! I wanna play...

It's a great idea but one needs to know a great deal of what SCs motives/intentions are before we can all come to an agreement. Otherwise SC would just say no "We're sorry but it's not in the best interest of our company, we must do it"... leaving us dumbfounded as to why, and would most probably end up prolonging the update.

SC will never disclose their intentions, even to the Mods...I think..

Thanks OP for sharing. I've read over that website & the idea looks pretty interesting. We need this in clash. We need something to link players with developers. As it seems they know little about players in terms of what do they like or hate. Hope this will get into existence :thumbsup:

I wish i could give u 20$... this is the best idea ive ever seen on these fourms ever... supercell has never listend to what the damand of the poeple are and with this they would actually show some care, but i have a feeling that even if they added this supercelll would just ignore them because thats what they do best, ignore the cummunity that makes them millions...