Amidst other issues, Let's talk about prizes and tournaments. *cough* non existent.

[GooseFraba]

Edit : Can a moderator please change prices into prizes? I didn't notice it until recently >_<

Now i have been reading about all the complaints in forums and i support them whole heartedly.

But let's discuss about in game tournaments and events if any such things even exist.
What's the most 'exciting tournament' we currently have? 20000 gems for first team and divided between top 10 players of that clan.
So at max, 30 people get to reap the 'benefits'
And this is the best thing a multi million company can come up with. distributing ingame items worth couple of hundred dollars every 2 weeks to players that are the main source of income for them.
Leave alone lower league players, we are not even on the radar.

Now i might be comparing apples and oranges, but let's take Valve's new game as an example. Every year, a tournament is held and the prices? over 1.6 million USD (it might even be more than 2 million, leave alone the cost of arrangements )
it's a free to play game, in which u can buy skins and visual items for money. now such a setup and yet giving out huge prices?

Supercell, makes around 1 million USD from CoC alone and that's PER DAY. it's a frigging 50 mb mobile game which isn't gonna cost more money to develop or upgrade than it costed valve to develop a pc game.

My point? what has supercell done to keep players interested? funds issue? hopefully not
I don't expect them to give real life money prices. how about in game price distributions?

less staff? Hire more. you people have enough money to burn in firehouses to stay warm and fuzzy.
something, that's worth an effort?
I can go on ranting but who likes to read a wall of text

TL;DR : Supercell is ignoring not only the masses, but even the top players.


-GooseFraba

[ProudZiggy]

First off, don't even try comparing a humongous company like Valve to Supercell. The two companies are in totally different leagues. Secondly, like you said, this game is just a 50mb apple/android app. Give it some slack. Updates will come out in time, and supercell is obviously aware that they need to make a few changes. Patience boy, patience!

[RorZ]

There are competitions on the CoC Facebook page where you can win gems.

[GooseFraba]

First off, don't even try comparing a humongous company like Valve to Supercell. The two companies are in totally different leagues. Secondly, like you said, this game is just a 50mb apple/android app. Give it some slack. Updates will come out in time, and supercell is obviously aware that they need to make a few changes. Patience boy, patience!

I am patient enough Or else i wouldn't bother playing this game. My rant is just about them making no efforts for in game activities.
i already mentioned that i might be comparing Apples and Oranges. yes Valve and Supercell are a no match, But supercell has huge profits too. won't hurt distributing some ingame goodies. ( never even suggested real life money tournaments)

They should start off with some tournaments for players to look up to. Lure them into playing more. Profit?

And the guy who suggested about facebook tournaments, I am clearly talking about IN GAME tournaments

[JSpong]

Let's make this clear before you read the rest of my post; I do not care what happens in this situation, I just feel the right information needs to go through. Everyone has to STOP with the sympathy for SC. "They are just a small company, give them time, they are just humans." We aren't talking about 3 people running the game here, it has to be staffed in the hundreds. If it is not, then it is surely time for them to do hiring. Sandalhat, those posts were pretty ignorant. You would have to be insane to believe their award system is fair, I have seen many free to play games that have awards available to everyone. Now, theoritically it is possible, but we know someone who even spends less than $500 most likely is not making it to the top.

[GooseFraba]

Let's make this clear before you read the rest of my post; I do not care what happens in this situation, I just feel the right information needs to go through. Everyone has to STOP with the sympathy for SC. "They are just a small company, give them time, they are just humans." We aren't talking about 3 people running the game here, it has to be staffed in the hundreds. If it is not, then it is surely time for them to do hiring. Sandalhat, those posts were pretty ignorant. You would have to be insane to believe their award system is fair, I have seen many free to play games that have awards available to everyone. Now, theoritically it is possible, but we know someone who even spends less than $500 most likely is not making it to the top.

totally Agree.
I can already think of a one day tournament like, Target builders huts for a day and u might find a gem from them ( let's say 1 gem with 1 % drop rate? i wonder if that's even too much to ask )

watch everyone go into a builder hut hunting frenzy and everything trying to protect their huts. hahahahaha. should be fun
And watch that 'Builder's rights' dude troll whole forums regarding their rights. LOL

calm down guys, this is just an idea

[nas]

I totally agree.

This game needs to offer more to keep players interested.

There have been many great ideas proposed. Just hope SuperSELL decide listen and implement rather then ignore!

[JSpong]

Well, the problem is, SC pretty much disregards any kind of ideas that involve gems. Something like that builder hut gem drop will never happen.
Like I said, I have learned not to care when it comes to things I am positive wont come into fruition, this being one of them. All the power to you if you wish to stick it to the man!

[JtB]

I totally agree.

This game needs to offer more to keep players interested.

There have been many great ideas proposed. Just hope SuperSELL decide listen and implement rather then ignore!

People on the forums have been saying this for many months.

[GooseFraba]

I am new to forums. ( alright. been stalking forums for 2 weeks already :P )

but it doesn't take a genius to figure out common flaws like these.
That gem drop idea was just .. well. an Idea


Supercell needs to stop milking money out of EVERY single aspect of the game. They have too much cash already. They need to slow down a bit but that's a dream for us.