New matchmaking and game difficulty

[mejiamva]

Supercell is very risky tu change a game like this with so many players, think again about this changes, because instead of winning more money with selling gems, that is you goal, and we all know that, and is ok. you are risking the oopposite, getting children your principal target, and adult players, bored and quitting. Children do not understand your goal, they only quit if they dont enjoy.
keep the interest, your public is not only the ones who buys gems, we all make the game and you need us all, not only costumers.
buyers battles against no buyers and feel motivated to buy more and win against palyers that are not buying at all. I work as an marketing advisor and let me tell you, your marketing department advise you wrongly.

[wumpus]

The new matchmaking system has made this a much more casual game.That's bad for supercell. You are going to lose $. Making trophies worthless was a bad move. You have stripped out the game play and replaced it with people now easily manipulating your trophy system or a defensive stalemate. Neither one of those is much fun to play. Stay the course. Why should you care what paying customers are saying? you're doing a great job!

[Jdusmc1]

I have spent well over 4,000 usd and have enjoyed it! Until now, I am done some idiot gave you bad advice.
i would spend what ever to keep moving forward with my trophies, upgraded everything, for what
I cycle thru 30-40 battle tries and nothing over 1-2 trophies and then lose on DEF 13 trophies with 1 star.
are you kidding me. I have no reason to spend another dollar. You guys are idiots.

[Diego]

last 3 defenses that i lost was from lvls 48,51 and another 48 again. Am at lvl 28 now with 900 trophys, what about that ♥♥♥♥ natural trophy range bull♥♥♥♥ it doesnt matter your trophy if some high lvl is on the same range of trophys he is goin to steal your gold/elixir anyway, you cant escape from it. This system needs to change go by LVL range TH range or something like that, cant stay like this.

[Zakilluminati]

Your rants mean nothing. Do you even read what you're saying? Wow. You are holding so dearly to your 1300 trophy because you THINK you worked hard for it. Before you call names, learn your facts. Learn your game. Adapt. Innovate instead of just whine all day that the game is hard for you when it just got better for the vast majority.

And if you think the whiners ere are the "vast majority" then you are ttally way over your head... Gie it a day or a week and read this reply and scratch your head with a smile...

Damn it you re so arogant. Anyway, I quit the game, i m not playing anymore and my friend either. But who truly cares ? Supercell ? Nevermind there are a lot of idiots like you Pedro, (you re a new player, i can't blame you) who ll make publicity for this game, one more time it's not your fault, and throw some money to supercell.

So, who cares ?

I m done with this game, Good luck & Have fun.

[Zakilluminati]

People dropping trophies is what Supercell should have avoided at all cost, cus now people have deliberately screwed the matchmaker just to find fairer/easier matches.

Pitiful update made for all pedro fanbois.

Hahaha well said. True story.

[Zakilluminati]

This guy has almost 1300 posts where he is probably saying : "Hey guys, I love supercell developpers, especialy when they f♥♥♥ me in the a♥♥ !"

I ll probably get banned for this but I don't care, I m not playing anymore..

And pedro no offense but, are you working for supercell ? If you aren't, then you must be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ed..

[Nikki]

This guy has almost 1300 posts where he is probably saying : "Hey guys, I love supercell developpers, especialy when they f♥♥♥ me in the a♥♥ !"

I ll probably get banned for this but I don't care, I m not playing anymore..

And pedro no offense but, are you working for supercell ? If you aren't, then you must be ♥♥♥♥♥♥ed..

You know, I get tired of the whole mentality here of "if you disagree with me and say it, you must work for Supercell" it's lame. When the last hated update came out, I didn't mind it and was one of the few here saying so. I got the same backlash. Pedro was one who haaaated the last update, and let me tell you what we butted heads a few times over it. Now this one he likes and you assume that he doesn't know what he's talking about? If you cannot adapt to change, you shouldn't play the game. Pedro is trying to show you guys that there is a way to make you strong enough to gain higher trophies but you all are too focused on trophy numbers to listen. He is not wrong here.


Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean that they area company spy, you paranoid yahoos.

[PoohFace]

As you know, we introduced a much faster and more fluid matchmaking system with the Winter Update. We've received quite a few complaints that the new matchmaking has made the game more difficult. The game is now offering you opponents with trophy counts a lot closer to your own, which means that you have the potential to win a lot more trophies in one battle. This of course results in more challenging fights.

In fact, game difficulty hasn't changed. A match where you're able to win 30 trophies is just as challenging as a 30 trophy match was before. The difference is that now you're just seeing a lot more of 30 trophy matches, compared to matches offered by the old matchmaking system where you might win just three trophies. In other words, you don't have to smash ten low-level villages to get those 30 trophies any more. Any seriously competitive Clash of Clans player will appreciate the new challenge and the time they save!

If you've only been fighting low level players until now, you'll need to learn how to beat tougher opponents. The best way to do that is by bravely attacking and seeing what works and what doesn't! If you keep losing, then your trophy count was too high and you need to build a stronger village and upgrade your army. It's easier to bounce back than you think, and you'll have truly earned your new trophies after claiming them from real opponents. Having fair fights will result in a better gaming experience in the long run.

This is simply not true. You now spend hours searching only to be offered 1 -3 trophy count. I spent 8 hours of searching. offered a total of 20 trophies from 7 offerings. Then defence battle (which is always a loss now ) lost 54 trophies in one battle. The idea of matchmaikng was correct but the fact is, it does not work for the top players.

[PoohFace]

Originally Posted by PoohFaceSo I posted the following to our clan Bonbee Canada and I sent it with responses to Supercell. There is a legal case here regarding exploitation of customers but thats for another day. Here is my post. Hope it makes sense...


Hi Supercall
My in game name is “Pooh Face” (don't ask) I am a member of Bonbee Canada. I spend circa £**** per month on the game. I have some serious concerns that we at Bonbee have been discussing at length. I made a post regarding these issues on our clan glassboard. The following is that post so as to give you a full understanding of our concerns;
“GUYS I'm a business man as you know and I have a keen eye with regards to sales strategies. I have been studying the changes made to the game over the past few weeks including today's hit point increase to CC. I have made the following observations;
It's important to first understand the following.
Based on number of players in game, age groups and financial means of different age groups in the game (best guess) its fair to say that players fall into 3 groups;
Noobs (just started to roughly lev 45) - zero to low spend
Medium players - spend once a month but only if they can and some spend then regret as they can't sustain spend so not a massive amount of revenue
Top players- spend extreme amounts on a regular basis and have the ability to sustain the spend
Noobs and medium combined would be roughly 70% of total players.
Now from a business view;
20% of player bring in 80% of revenue for SC
Now SC will monitor spending and P&L fluctuations but they will not spot it soon enough. Spot what you might ask. Well as we now know, one of the affects of these extreme game changes is that the better player you are or become the lesser the reward so you can keep rising to the top BUT you can not stay there. which begs the question, paying to get to the top is one thing but would you keep doing it over and over? What SC will soon realise is the 20% players that I referred to are not spending anywhere near the same. This is not because they don't want to, it's because they have no need to as they are stuck spending hours just to find a battle. Those hours spent trying to find a battle are not actually gameplay time so in affect they have reduced our gameplay time massively.
Secondly Defence verses attack's balance has changed in such an extreme manner that it means the balance has gone from the game. I attacked a lev 91 yesterday. I 3 stared him at got 3 cups. He revenges me and 3 stared me and got 54 cups. I spent 8 hours of play to gain 20 cups. I lost 54 in just one def.
SC made changes today to increase hit points on CC but this just means you use two Santa's instead of one or one Santa and 1 lightening. Nothing has changed to address the fact that defence war does not exist now. We are building bases just to limit loss not to win on defence.
If you was a brand new player armed with this information would you really play this game never mind spend your hard earned cash. There is no need now to upgrade defence. For a new player they can just attack only and have no defence.
Simply put and as my audience is some of the top players in the game, the game changes of late punish the top players and the high spenders in a manor that makes me feel foolish for spending ant further. I'm not sure if this is what SC intended but nevertheless it is so and as such, I will spend one week from today monitoring the situation and if nothing has changed I will delete my game one week from today.
In the mean time I will email SC with my views and I may send a copy if this post also but first I would like to hear your thoughts
I hope I have managed to articulate my points correctly
Your Pooh Face