Apparently, Supercell Games hasn’t heard of the “if it works don’t fix it" principle because it has decided to overhaul the multiplayer scene of its juggernaut, Clash of Clans (Free). The developers want to improve the fairness of Clash of Clans’ competitive play, improve high-level matchmaking, and create a true, competitive experience to many more players than before. Considering that this is a game played by half the world’s population (by my empirical estimation), Supercell definitely risks getting so many curses from so many people. Good for the company though for daring to change what it felt wasn’t working properly.
And what exactly wasn’t working, you might ask? Firstly, the matchmaking search times were very long, the Trophy offers were repeatedly lopsided (+1 Trophy Win/ -39 Trophy loss), and the Trophy ladder’s low mobiility made players feel stuck in place without the ability to improve. The main cause of these problems was not enough players at the top, which meant matchmaking suffered greatly. So, the developers decided to introduce the Legend League Tournament, the biggest step in their attempt to address this problem. This new Tournament will introduce the Legend League at 5000 Trophies and a new, monthly Legend League Tournament in the Top Players List (go here for more details on the Tournament).
The upcoming update will also drop a Trophy reset on players to bring them closer to each other level-wise and improve the Clash experience. At the end of every Legend League Tournament, Legend League players above 5000 Trophies will reset back down to 5000. The developers hope that this change will get all Legends to push for global rank #1 each tournament, which will mean more players in the top levels, higher mobility, and less wait times. Knowing that players might rail against this trophy killing, Supercell will add Legend Trophies that preserve the Trophies that got reset. That way, the company won’t damage the players’ sense of achievement. The company aims to continue rethinking the high-level competition in Clash of Clans, so if you are one of those playing the game, expect to hear more in the near future. What do you think of these changes, will they have the effect the company is hoping for or are they too much?
Monks vs Death Knights still interests me more than an expansion.
That's going to be happen but prolly not for a long time still
sadly I think they are focusing (selling) new hero portraits because adding classes with all these cards now would be a balancing nightmare.
Brave new faces says maybe some new heroes as classes we don't have yet maybe? New heroes interest me more then the theme.
smart marketing by Blizzard; you walked right into their trap by posting it Touch Arcade :). Seriously though, that sounds awesome. Cant wait to see what the annoucement is. Hopefully a new adventure or an expansion. Both would rock!
I'm not ready for new cards yet. I'm hoping that it's going to be new, fun ways to play.
Moré freakin DRAAAAGGOOOOONNNNSSSSS
please
Cool metagame!
We are excited about an announcement of an announcement! :-)
Maybe it's the long awaited ingame tournament mode?
Damnit... I just finished BRM a few weeks ago!
An announcement for an announcement? Dear God, even Tolkien wasn't this meta!
Actually that scroll looks like an invitation to a tournament
Give me more murloc cards!
Blah blah blah! Gotta keep mentioning this old app every day (or at least 3 times a week) when other apps could use attention. Doesn't take much of a rocket scientist why some folks are annoyed with this constant attention to it. If every app had the same number of articles as this one, people would have no issue with pledging more money to TA. Seems even new apps are getting less attention in the process for this app. Bad enough it has a regular weekly article but seems every time something new comes out, it has to be mentioned immediately as well as in the weekly article. Less is sometimes more....
Hearthstone is one of the most popular games right now not even including its mobile form so of course sites are going to put a lot of focus on it. For one there are tons of massive hearthstone fans that regularly visit this site and two it will generate traffic to the site via links and google searches. Seems like a win/win for Touch Arcade and its readers.
I was a straight up hard-core iPhone gamer for four years, but almost all of that gaming has gone by the wayside. Hearthstone is pretty much the only game that I play these days. Things change, time moves on, but having one game that I consistently enjoy keeps me coming back to these articles. Keep up the great coverage, TA!
Could there be a possible Free For All mode? Alliances are forged then backstabbed.
An announcement detailing unknown details about an unknown announcement...
Gotta have something to do with Paladin:
Muster for battle
Champions
Now Argent....
Points to Argent Tournament IMO. A Tournament mode. They wouldn't focus on a single class, or at least they never have. Besides BRM basically made Dragon Pally a thing. They got some focus there in terms of synergy unlike Priest, who still have no viable race synergy.
First of all, Dragon Paladin is not a thing, and I don't know anybody who would call it that. Second, most people think this 'expansion' is based on a WoW patch that came out some time ago, called 'Argent Tournament'. It was ment to lead in to the adventures connected to defeating the lichking. So I don't think it has anything to do with a particural class, but more with a 'preparation' for the fight in the lichking's realm. Maybe we'll get some new cards for now, and later on this year, we'll get a new solo-adventure, based on the fight itself.
Bravo, you've regurgitated what Kripparrian says in the video posted in TA's latest Touchstone article posted mere hours before your smart aleck response here. At least the other guys were taking good guess days ago...
Oh, I'm so sorry to offend you, dude. I didn't mean to be a smart-ass, I just wanted to inform the guys on this website. Next to that, I didn't know anything about Kripparians vid, or the post on Touchstone. I was taking this guess myself.