How were SC ever so successful with a PR system like this?!

[Blazzz14]

Dude, that's a news parody site. I said so in the thread it was originally posted and I am saying it again. That whole article is made up for fun, stop quoting it.

News parody site or not the points are still valid in my view and the way recent events have played out echoes the "superprofits" philosophy if you ask me.

[TheGnome2]

A fellow forum member posted this link http://www.p4rgaming.com/supercell-t...ofitable-ones/ and I quote “Some people think Clash of Clans is a good game,” said Paananen, “That’s nice of them to say, but that was not our goal. We never set out to try to make an innovative game. We just wanted to make a lot of money. The truth is, our approach has made us more popular, more successful and more influential. We have changed the industry and for the better.”

Simply put that statement to me sums up SC's philosophy- they are only driven by one thing only- superprofits. They don't care about their customers. They don't care about making the game experience better for us. Paananen goes further - "I’m just glad that all the people who wanted to make a good game have left our company. They would have destroyed us.” In other words, "make profitable games, not good ones".

That in a nutshell sums it up for me. If we think that SC are going to address the discontent and anger regarding the update to make clashers happy I'm afraid we are living in lala land. They are not going to roll back the changes, period. In fact as we speak they are probably analysing how we have adapted to keep farming and progress our bases and collecting data on it- namely the great trophy migration- and I will bet my bottom quid that the next update will be even more draconian so as to line their purses further.

There is a way of making money while keeping your customers happy hence I agree with the OP regarding this appalling PR by SC or rather lack of it.

This is a fake article.

[divyank666]

Unfortunately SC's recent blunders and their lack of good content over the past year makes it more and more apparent that their success was accidental more than anything else
And to the guy with the interview, its definitely fake lol - would the ceo of the biggest mobile game company cry and say ' i'm glad all the people that wanted to make a good game left us ' 😁😁

[clffrdjk]

Is this not super cell's official forum?
SC has obviously elevated them over such a lowly poster as I, so when I see an 18 page thread complaining about lack of communication get locked with the message shame on me and that I expect too much.
Well that is the closest thing I have to straight from SC mouth.
So yes shame on me for expecting just a hint of communication, and doubly shame on me for spending so much time and money of super cell games.
I will fix that.

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You know what, actually i'm not done.
You lot need to learn to lower your expectations.

Some of the comments in this thread are utterly despicable.
This game has been in the making a long time before the dec update.

And now, you have the audacity to call them out because they were invited out by Supercell to see their new game, and to get some footage to show their loyal followers?
Shame on you
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...utubers/page18

[Lloopy14]

But there lies the problem. This has reached a point beyond a response from the community manager. Someone from the dev team should have stepped up long ago and released a statement across all of the SC social platforms. I appreciate all the work done by the forum teams but they just don't have the job title or information needed to be put people's minds at rest that something is actually being worked on.

Agreed with the Dev team's need to respond but I think that the time has gone passed discussion and people want some form of "We are going to do this"

I want a response... but I'm dreading one at the same time.

[Kowalski711]

A fellow forum member posted this link www.p4rgaming.com/supercell-the-future-of-gaming-is-not-making-good-games-but-making-profitable-ones/ and I quote “Some people think Clash of Clans is a good game,” said Paananen, “That’s nice of them to say, but that was not our goal. We never set out to try to make an innovative game. We just wanted to make a lot of money. The truth is, our approach has made us more popular, more successful and more influential. We have changed the industry and for the better.”

Simply put that statement to me sums up SC's philosophy- they are only driven by one thing only- superprofits. They don't care about their customers. They don't care about making the game experience better for us. Paananen goes further - "I’m just glad that all the people who wanted to make a good game have left our company. They would have destroyed us.” In other words, "make profitable games, not good ones".

That in a nutshell sums it up for me. If we think that SC are going to address the discontent and anger regarding the update to make clashers happy I'm afraid we are living in lala land. They are not going to roll back the changes, period. In fact as we speak they are probably analysing how we have adapted to keep farming and progress our bases and collecting data on it- namely the great trophy migration- and I will bet my bottom quid that the next update will be even more draconian so as to line their purses further.

There is a way of making money while keeping your customers happy hence I agree with the OP regarding this appalling PR by SC or rather lack of it.

Dude, that's a news parody site. I said so in the thread it was originally posted and I am saying it again. That whole article is made up for fun, stop quoting it.

Lol. I just read that last part, went back to the article and saw "Valve considers hiring more then one person for Steam support."

[LynnK2015]

A fellow forum member posted this link www.p4rgaming.com/supercell-the-future-of-gaming-is-not-making-good-games-but-making-profitable-ones/ and I quote “Some people think Clash of Clans is a good game,” said Paananen, “That’s nice of them to say, but that was not our goal. We never set out to try to make an innovative game. We just wanted to make a lot of money. The truth is, our approach has made us more popular, more successful and more influential. We have changed the industry and for the better.”

Dude, that's a news parody site. I said so in the thread it was originally posted and I am saying it again. That whole article is made up for fun, stop quoting it.

♥♥♥♥. Here's my favorite quote from the article which parodied Supercell:

“Then someone showed me an article from Wired,” said Paananen with a smile, “People were spending five thousand dollars on our game. I only thought people were spending maybe a thousand, but five? I was so happy. Our strategy paid off in the end...”

That the CEO doesn't know how much players spent on Clash until he was informed by another source is hilarious.

[slayer409]

PR was never ♥♥♥'s magical success, the game WAS FUN to play, but greed always kills it in the end. When have you seem good PR from Europeans???

[Vinnie009]

Is this not super cell's official forum?
SC has obviously elevated them over such a lowly poster as I, so when I see an 18 page thread complaining about lack of communication get locked with the message shame on me and that I expect too much.
Well that is the closest thing I have to straight from SC mouth.
So yes shame on me for expecting just a hint of communication, and doubly shame on me for spending so much time and money of super cell games.
I will fix that.

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You know what, actually i'm not done.
You lot need to learn to lower your expectations.

Some of the comments in this thread are utterly despicable.
This game has been in the making a long time before the dec update.

And now, you have the audacity to call them out because they were invited out by Supercell to see their new game, and to get some footage to show their loyal followers?
Shame on you
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...utubers/page18

LoL I like how the post was made and then that thread was closed
So no one would comment on the response?

[Vanguard15]

Yeap no announcement,no communication and no interaction.