Finnish game developer Supercell is cracking down on cheaters on its freemium mobile strategy game “Clash of Clans” because it is no longer happy with their unfair playing schemes, much to the detriment of the other gamers who are playing the game pretty fairly.
Supercell has been receiving complaints from players since receiving the “Clash of Clans” Town Hall 11 updates released last December. It subsequently came up with patches to address the issues and problems encountered by gamers.
Last month, Supercell released major updates to “Clash of Clans” which brought a lot of good things to the game. However, it also came with a slew of problems and complaints from gamers.
The huge update to “Clash of Clans” arrived with loads of changes, new troops, additional features, and was even regarded as one of the biggest updates that fans and gamers have seen in a while.
The updates have added higher Inferno Towers, Mortars, upgrades to the Hog Rider, Valkyrie, Goblins, as well as a new Dark Troop called the Bowler. It also shortened spell brewing times, shortened Dark Elixir spell cooking times, revamped the matchmaking system, and both Town Hall 10 and Town Hall 11 players are now less likely to find and have to fight each other in single player attacks.
Because of the significant changes to Clan War matchmaking, thousands of Clans are lining up to matchmaking to try and get a fresh and fair fight.
Time to balance the game
However, instead of appreciation for the good things that the March updates have brought to the game, gamers have been blasting the official “Clash of Clans” forum with a slew of problems.
They have reported plenty of complaints including the infamous ‘device not compatible’ prompt for the updates on Google Play, account switching is broken, the base layout editor is crashing games, and many others.
As expected, Supercell gradually addressed the legitimate gamer complaints through several patches but also keenly noted the game imbalance caused by cheaters, who use bots, mods, hacks, and any other third party software to win the games easily, notes the Parent Herald.
Supercell posted on its website very recently that “Clash of Clans” players who use third party software on the game shall be banned in the game for two weeks and if they continue with their strategy, they will have to bid goodbye to the game because their account will be banned permanently.
Taking on the Supercell challenge
But instead of being concerned with Supercell’s ultimatum, Xmodgames, a developer of third-party apps used by some players in “Clash of Clans,” dared the game developer to do what it wants.
It even posted on its Twitter account asking “CoC” gamers to unite so that victory can be achieved.
The third-party app developer also promised to improve its anti-detection algorithms so that Supercell would not be able to determine whether a “CoC” gamer is using a third-party app or not in the game. It will be a cat and mouse game between Supercell and the third-party apps developer again the way it used to be.
Meanwhile, it seems that the popularity of “Clash of Clans” is starting to wane a bit as the title of top-grossing mobile video game last month went to “Clash Royale.” “Clash Royale” posted sales of $133 million compared to the $118 million of “CoC,” reports the International Business Times.
But Supercell is still happy with the result since “Clash Royale” is also its own video game product just like “Clash of Clans” and “Boom Beach.”
As far as revenues of digital video games for consoles are concerned, Ubisoft’s latest entry, the “Tom Clancy’s The Division,” finally dethroned in March the prolific “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3” by Activision which has been lording the video game sales chart since its release on November 15 last year.