Originally posted by BeRanger918

A lot of wait for such an uninspiring change. Love finishing the boat race in 20 hours and having to wait six days for the next war. That should really keep the troops motivated.

Originally posted by ledv83

Drew,

Thanks for putting together this. Now, players have reported that they cannot claim card gifts from the shop if they are already maxed out. This is a downgrade.

Originally posted by Eterniter

That "future" updates is what scares me. I would have no problem if our complains turned into feedback and then SC improved things by say, in an update next month. We all know though next update that changes anything in the game is 6+ months away.

Originally posted by ThePhoenix74

What about the button swap and the gems I lost? Seriously?

Originally posted by sandokas

My clan was in Legendary last couple of months and fell during last clan war (from 3k to 2.9k). Now we're stuck at 1500 points. Before if we won 1st place every single war we could get 300-400 points a week. In a month we could get back.

With river race we're stuck at 20 points a week. That's going to take us 1.5 years (75 weeks) to get back where we were before IF we win EVERY single boat race.

I dunno what to do. We've been playing together for years but this seems like the final chapter. Please help.

Originally posted by Eterniter

Hopefully. I've been playing clash since April 2016 and I admit any ill criticism towards the game is actually due to how much I love Clash Royale. I think I speak for most of us on this but truth is we complain because we have spent countless hours having fun on this game and our expectations are always high.

Originally posted by sandokas

Colosseum gives 100 points per month.

In clan wars we used to get 100 points every 2 days.

I feel betrayed.

Originally posted by Godspiral

Gems from Quests have been migrated into the Daily Gift in the Shop - all other rewards have been included in Clan Wars 2 rewards below.

The problem is that concentration in CW2 rewards. CW2 rewards require an active clan. If this is a casual game and the majority of players are casual, then the majority of clans are not active enough to get the top rewards. A lot of complaining about matchmaking, but if you just play, and have other clanmates who also play, you can get a high finish position, and high reward. 50 players with lvl 9 cards can finish race at start of 3rd day in their time zone. Fast enough to climb to legends even if they lose every time.

An important reward balancing fix would be to get rid of the boot, and every clan is guaranteed the 5th place reward (4th could be better than 5th)

In the old CW1, our clan could usually get the gold 1st chest every 2 weeks, even if we had lots of 4th/5th places. The average clan will necessarily get 3rd each week. Not far from half the old value. But our clan will also drop out of gold and never come back. Not sure how we wouldn't get the silver boot every week until we fall to bronze if we can't get 50k points.

Matchmaking is not the real long term problem (it fixes itself anyway + boat battles can be won with weak decks). Its the huge penalty to smaller clans. (We're open clan with reasonable reqs) that is huge nerf to their rewards.

Originally posted by chunter456

Can we get transparency around the gold for non 3 crown victories? I haven't been getting the full amount on wins and it tends to penalize certain decks that aren't three crowning.

Originally posted by J1234511

From the table I don't see how the legendaries we have lost from the quest chests like mega lightning, kings chest, legendary chest, etc have been put into the war rewards - the legendaries we get will go down

Also before you had many chances to get a 1st chest in a season, this is not the case anymore - so war rewards go down again

Also, this rebuttal shows that none of this is true https://www.reddit.com/r/ClashRoyale/comments/ilg9wu/do_we_get_more_rewards_from_the_new_update_or_did/

Originally posted by factsvsfiction

After giving it a few days to play here are a few of my thoughts:

1) best of 3 duels are completely pointless in this format

-If you do not have 3 maxed decks, you do not stand a chance

-format causes decks to become progressively worse without the ability to repeat cards (ex. Multiple deck structures require spell cards. If you used 3 in deck 1 and have none for your other 3 decks it changes how people play the game )

-you waste 3/4 of your war day decks on one event

Personally, I believe it would have been better to let people choose from 1 of the 5 decks they have already designed in the game for each duel match and have this count for only 1 of their war day participation slots. It takes more skill to prepare for all cards/deck combos, rather than finish games 1&2 and not have to prepare for a fireball, zap, xyz card.

2) The matchmaking system is TERRIBLE.

-Right now the system is factoring in card levels, but it needs to factor in card level AND tower level. Lvl 13s are able to manipulate this to their advantage. They can use lower level cards to match with lower level people, giving them the advantage in head to head matchups. Their throwaway deck shouldn't give them a better chance at points.

3) Grand challenges/challenges should be revisited now that clan wars 2 is here

-we haven't got many updates to this area

-it would be cool to see best of 3 duels added to the final stage of grand challenges or even a best of 3 duel challenge system createx

-a gem/coin betting scheme could be added to help players grow

-gem prices could be reduced to make the challenges more farmable or add a gold option to participate

Originally posted by UtsavAdk

Hey drew, As a heard in recent CWA video, you as a single community manager for such huge game is doing a great work. I used to be mad when you don't interact with community but now i think it a difficult job.

This post will definitely will get ignored but, the optional/mandatory update will change some UI features. Will it include clan chat UI change as well? because the community seems to be unhappy with the new transparent UI.

Originally posted by fl164

That's awesome Drew, I love your new shift in communication. I would even say you got some coaching on how to change it so that it evolves in a right way with this tricky and schizophrenic community. By the way it works and I really like it.

To come back to this point. I love duel in CW2 and there is no debate for me that Duel should be extended to other parts of the game.

Thank you for your huge communication. Be sure that mine will continue at this level.

Originally posted by MidKnight088

Hey drew sorry if you answered this already, is there an estimated date when the optional update will come? The game badly needs it.