No loot, no buying gems

[facescraper]

You know, I'm getting really annoyed and agitated, young players in this game, should jolly well listen up and listen good, the league system has only been implemented in ONE single update, do you know that means? It means it's version 0.1, it's definitely still in alpha stage, give the system time to improve and develop, we all know ourselves the system has potential, that's the biggest thing here, not the small loot, you can't start off giving big rewards and then realise is a wrong mistake, you start off small, there is nothing wrong with Supercell here, the young fanbase in this game really need to grow up and get out of the sliver spoon mentality.

It's sickening, at the end of the day, it isn't you who are feeding the salaries of the staff anyway.

You mean version 1.0. I'm not sure if you're aware but they're also making a reported 2.4 million a day with both games on the App Store.

http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/...ws.asp?c=50169

You're TH8 so you honestly have no idea what we are talking about here.

[calamity1993]

I wouldn't call it a 1.0, like everybody said, the loot can be improved, so it definitely is an alpha stage, a 0.1


I indicated that I'm TH8, I could remove it too, what does it matter? Is that all you can say in your defence?

TH9 got all the upgrades from TH8 along with 2 xbows, 1 additional anti-air and wizard tower, if you have played the game right, upgrading 90% percent of everything in TH8, you should be prepared to be the biggest bully in the game, the one with shimmering black and purple towers, and preparing to raid TH8s with level 6s. I saw your base, you are pretty souped up, at 1462 trophies, what do you expect to farm there?

A TH9 here has said before that loots are still there at 1600-1800, can't remember exactly, it depends on the trophy range and the willingness to search a little more. If you can't find any loots, increase your trophy count, gosh a TH8 teaching a TH9, since you like to mention my TH level.

[Shady80]

Here is a newsflash: players who are not willing to spend most of their time playing a MMORPG usually don't get to have access to ALL the goodies in the game.

Now, let that sink in. Done? Now stop complaining that it takes 2 years to max TH9.

The length it takes is outrageous. If you haven't noticed, this game doesn't have near the "depth" of playability of an MMO, yet it takes MUCH longer to "beat it". The difference here is that this game isn't long because of ample content that you achieve along the way, it is long for the sake of being long in hopes that you'll spend money to speed it up, and for no other reason whatsoever.

[calamity1993]

The length it takes is outrageous. If you haven't noticed, this game doesn't have near the "depth" of playability of an MMO, yet it takes MUCH longer to "beat it". The difference here is that this game isn't long because of ample content that you achieve along the way, it is long for the sake of being long in hopes that you'll spend money to speed it up, and for no other reason whatsoever.

This game is designed to be long, I enjoyed the journey farming, the delayed gratification received seeing your base with black walls is just, satisfying, if its easy, everybody would be at the same level as you and that would take the joy away.

What would you expect to get from beating the game when it is all about the journey.

[Docxylo]

The length it takes is outrageous. If you haven't noticed, this game doesn't have near the "depth" of playability of an MMO, yet it takes MUCH longer to "beat it". The difference here is that this game isn't long because of ample content that you achieve along the way, it is long for the sake of being long in hopes that you'll spend money to speed it up, and for no other reason whatsoever.

Well said. And if I can add that you don't even need to be willing to spend the time, you can just buy your way to maxing everything...

[Shady80]

I wouldn't call it a 1.0, like everybody said, the loot can be improved, so it definitely is an alpha stage, a 0.1


I indicated that I'm TH8, I could remove it too, what does it matter? Is that all you can say in your defence?

TH9 got all the upgrades from TH8 along with 2 xbows, 1 additional anti-air and wizard tower, if you have played the game right, upgrading 90% percent of everything in TH8, you should be prepared to be the biggest bully in the game, the one with shimmering black and purple towers, and preparing to raid TH8s with level 6s.

A TH9 here has said before that loots are still there, it depends on the trophy range and the willingness to search a little more. If you can't find any loots, increase your trophy count.

The problem is that the company is so completely out of touch with their own game that they are just generating content for the sake of having new content. They don't care whether it works properly, makes sense, solves the problems it was set out to, unbalances the game, or adds anything useful to the game. They know that when they update, people spend, therefore they update as quickly as possible.

Compare this mindset to basically any reputable gaming company in the industry. Updates are well thought out. Bug fixes take precedent over new content, because if the old stuff isn't working then what's the point of adding new stuff? Updates actually continually tweak the game to be more balanced rather than making small "bandaid" fixes that throw things further out of w♥♥♥♥ ( ie, more walls at th7 to compensate for the last wall breaker tweak, another air defense and wizard tower at th9 instead of weakening dragons slightly to offset their splash damage, thus making healers and minions completely worthless, the list goes on and on)

The problems here are those of an alpha game, yet alpha games do not make money off players testing their features. Half of their problem is that they don't understand the problems they are trying to fix, and the other half is that they don't test things properly before they implement them. There's really very little that they actually do in a reasonable manner that should warrant their insane amount of income. A good business model is no substitute for actually giving a ♥♥♥♥ about your customers, but apparently they think it is.

[Sandalhat]

Well said. And if I can add that you don't even need to be willing to spend the time, you can just buy your way to maxing everything...

Yes you can, but what exactly is your point? Players who spend money in this game have the advantage of time saving, we knew that since day 1.

[Shady80]

This game is designed to be long, I enjoyed the journey farming, the delayed gratification received seeing your base with black walls is just, satisfying, if its easy, everybody would be at the same level as you and that would take the joy away.

What would you expect to get from beating the game when it is all about the journey.

I'm not saying it can't be long, but when it is already the longest game in history and they keep stretching it out further and further for no apparent reason, it makes you wonder what is the point of even playing a game that you can never complete. It would be one thing if the length was increasing because of new features or content, but for them to purposely slow down loot gain for no apparent reason when it ALREADY takes over a year to max a base is just asinine.

[calamity1993]

Well said. And if I can add that you don't even need to be willing to spend the time, you can just buy your way to maxing everything...

Clash of Clans is one of the few games that has everything that can bought solely with game credits, the option to speed up buildings is the way for them to earn money and also in keeping the game free, Flammmy said this before, we should thank the gemmers because they're the one keeping the game free for us.

[wolfling]

@ Calamity (chrome breaks if I try to reply with quote), it is not just that leagues don't do anything that could not be just as easily accomplished without them, but that it is not even possible to use leagues for anything without allowing absurd exploits. The bonus is really based on trophies and doesn't really need leagues to work, but any attempt to give some kind of reward for being the top of your league would result in either giving the rewards to some random person who managed to get xx99 trophies without accidentally going over, or keeping people in leagues for the full two weeks would result either in people boosting trophies at the start of the season to get the win bonus against very weak opponents at far lower trophy levels or TH9s dropping to 400 at the start and then zooming upwards over 2000 to win any gems given out to the top players at the end of the season. I have spent a fair bit of time thinking about leagues, and I cannot come up with any way to make use of them at all.