Playing clash less

[NewDamage]

I am playing as much just using a different attack...adapted I guess.

For me it was barch troops with royals

Now it's giants/valks/wizards/wb/archers/barb fillers...boost royals...attack about every 30mins depending on donations.

Same amount of loot as before just less attacks to get it.

You need to stop boosting until they fix this mess. If you buy gems, they know you are hooked and the update is working as intended.

I stopped buying gems as soon as the update dropped.

[ClashinRick]

I know that I am playing much less post update.

I have wondered if that is what supercell wants. I would assume waiting for big armies and not sniping while faster troops are training would be easier on the servers, but I admittedly know very little about how all that back end stuff works.

[prosper12]

This isn't a complaint thread nor a support thread, just an observation of myself. Pre update I would clash whenever my barch army was cooked or whenever I had time for a boost session. At the end of the season, I normally would have near or past 1000 attacks won. Post update, I wait for my heros to regenerate rather than my barch army to cook up. And I never boost now due to barch losing its effectiveness. This past season I had under 200 attacks.

Did SC intend to do that to its players? And are you guys experiencing the same effect?

I believe the entire update was not pre-planned that well. I do not think they had a visionary on their team that would foresee these things. I personally think they had the Softbank team grabbing them by the collars and asking them how to make more money. Its seems to me they sat down at a table for about an hour an planned to eliminate the "occasional player or farmer" which was not giving them much money anyway. What they did not realize is the repercussions that this would have on the game.

I have noticed a few behaviours that have changed post update.

1. people are more frustrated and dissappointed because they get raided a lot more for their hard earned loot
2. people are more anxious about their attacks because if they fail in a war army to get loot it just adds to the frustration
3. When people get frustrated, and anxious they play the game less and less

It might be my mistake but I noticed loot is a little bit better now.

[MaximustheMerciful]

I too play much less post update. I used to have several boosted attack sessions each week. It was worth it to boost and get plenty of attacks in for a nice amount of loot. In addition, the clan was more active because plenty of people were doing the same.

Post update however, I along with many of those in my clan are playing considerably less. You can see it from chat and donations / less requests. There is just limited value in boosting now. Instead, I find myself logging on 1 or twice a day for a couple minutes to collect and see if anyone needs some reinforce troops. I hope the update will fix some of these problems.

It is too bad, cause I did enjoy this game for the year I have played.

Max defense 9. 20 queen, 16 King. Some lava walls

[Tspoint]

I got two - mid th10 and now starting th8.

I focus on the th8, the 10 is dead now - just a supplier of army for wars. And a dissapointment for masters and champs, cause they next it - cannot get a star, no loot to get either. 14 days with 1 successful 1star attack - the previous two activated bombs and cc, otherwise I would have been unbroken still.

I can still max the th10, but it would take more effort. I was getting robbed of 5-600k without getting a shield. This is no fun when saving 8 million for the upgrades. With boosting and more time, I can do it, but Supercell no longer deserves my money.

I`m actually disappointed, since after all the hate, there were also parts of the update, for which developers should be respected - timer, 1-hour boosts etc. Speaking of developers, someone above mentioned Softbank, and I also believe this is whom we should address all the hate to.

The reason many of us are playing less, or some even quitting I imagine could be summed up in the following way:

Softbank: When would the game approach the end of its life cycle?
Supercell: 201*
Softbank: That`s bad. Ok, find a way to increase the revenue by 30% in 2016!
Supercell: The only fast way we can think of involves quite a bit of risk of losing customers. This is why we never implemented it up-to-date.
Softbank: Do it.
Supercell: Ok, we will get the developers to execute it.

That`s why I never understood all the hate on developers. Sure, they want their company to be profitable, but as creators of something, I also believe they want as much people as possible to play and enjoy it. Would be rather surprised if the developer teams are overwhelmed with happiness, seeing what players think of their latest work. Perhaps the dev teams are no longer on first-name basis with much of the marketing and finance department


Hopefully, Supercell now has the necessary data to go to Softbank and say: do you really want to kill the cashcow? If not, let us fix the mess in the game, not by advertising as per your plan. Sure, we cannot publicly admit we are wrong, but at least soften the effects of your greed.

[kingrats]

Alright so i am not the only one. i dont know if it is post update or just maybe it is time and i was getting bored but it was dishartening seeing a TH10 getting 3 starred by a TH11 with ♥♥♥♥ty spam attacks.

i am a TH9 but really the amount of effort it takes to get to a max TH9 or even TH10 seems so much and then just to update the game where TH11 which really probably takes 1/10th of time and effort to max compared to a TH9 and really is kind of a spam TH.

Anyways i know i am not playing COC nearly as much considering i didn't do even one boosting session during the 1 gem special event season.

[Vinchello]

I got two - mid th10 and now starting th8.

I focus on the th8, the 10 is dead now - just a supplier of army for wars. And a dissapointment for masters and champs, cause they next it - cannot get a star, no loot to get either. 14 days with 1 successful 1star attack - the previous two activated bombs and cc, otherwise I would have been unbroken still.

I can still max the th10, but it would take more effort. I was getting robbed of 5-600k without getting a shield. This is no fun when saving 8 million for the upgrades. With boosting and more time, I can do it, but Supercell no longer deserves my money.

I`m actually disappointed, since after all the hate, there were also parts of the update, for which developers should be respected - timer, 1-hour boosts etc. Speaking of developers, someone above mentioned Softbank, and I also believe this is whom we should address all the hate to.

The reason many of us are playing less, or some even quitting I imagine could be summed up in the following way:

Softbank: When would the game approach the end of its life cycle?
Supercell: 201*
Softbank: That`s bad. Ok, find a way to increase the revenue by 30% in 2016!
Supercell: The only fast way we can think of involves quite a bit of risk of losing customers. This is why we never implemented it up-to-date.
Softbank: Do it.
Supercell: Ok, we will get the developers to execute it.

That`s why I never understood all the hate on developers. Sure, they want their company to be profitable, but as creators of something, I also believe they want as much people as possible to play and enjoy it. Would be rather surprised if the developer teams are overwhelmed with happiness, seeing what players think of their latest work. Perhaps the dev teams are no longer on first-name basis with much of the marketing and finance department


Hopefully, Supercell now has the necessary data to go to Softbank and say: do you really want to kill the cashcow? If not, let us fix the mess in the game, not by advertising as per your plan. Sure, we cannot publicly admit we are wrong, but at least soften the effects of your greed.

Well said hopefully you're right

[JFSoul]

Definitely not engaging in multiplayer battles as much lately. Focusing on wars and the social aspect of my clan.

[MiseriesChild]

In the same boat. Two of my three accounts are now in hibernation and my TH8 account is the only one I mess with anymore. Log in, collect resources, donate a few troops, (to troop request that have been sitting for 2 or 3 hours) log off and that's about it. Clan chat used to be 100+ messages every time I logged in, (pre-update) but now, (post-update) our Chat log goes back around 4 days. Everyone in my clan agrees that the game is a lot less fun now so hardly anyone gets on. And just to clarify, we are a LV5 war clan that used to have wars all the time, (pre-update) but now we can't get enough people to even do a 10x10.

I'm truly happy for the few people that love the update, still have active Clans and are raiding a lot of loot but for me the fun of the game has started to die off. Which sucks because I love(d) this game.

[Earthmomma]

Yep, am playing less.

I even boost here & there, but there's no joy and a vague sense of guilt at being an addict. Luckily, the game is so boring now that I'm getting over the addiction. I didn't WANT to get over the addiction. :<

But I echo the above: clan is iffy, long req wait times, low chat. Loot's out there, but what's the point? I'm not a greatly skilled attacker, so it's better just to sit under shield and gem the collectors while they're cheap.

I really resent this game now in ways i didn't when I was fully addicted. Now, it's just a job, and one that I'm coming to loathe.