I almost reached the point where I’ve been alive playing this game more than I was without playing it. The thing is that no matter how much I like something, all of a sudden, I will completely lose my interest and stop that activity. If it’s something that I really enjoyed, I will usually come back after an undetermined amount of time until my interest starts fading away once again.
Clash of Clans is no different. I even took a break for almost 4 full years when I didn’t play. So even tho I play since 2014, it’s not like I played continuously. It’s so fun and shocking to see what’s new after a long break like that. Now I don’t know how many of you are veterans there, but I’m just saying the game used to be way, way harder back in my time. 2 minutes for a PEKKA now?
How about 45 minutes? How about 3 hours plus for your entire war army to train? Upgrade costs and time are almost as radically reduced. I recently upgraded to th 12 and I already have more than half of my walls done and that’s only with the leftover loot from my other upgrades. I’m literally not even trying lmao, like I just open the game and attack whenever I’m in the mood to.
If I leave all of my filled storages and collectors outside my base I’ll get stolen like what, 1.3M-1.5M loot? I will get that back in two consecutive attacks with my two armies ready lmao. You basically cannot gain less resources than you get stolen unless you actually try. Resources are now so easy to find that it’s irrelevant what base you even have. Not to mention my army takes only 26 minutes to train which is nothing.
Plus that a daily training potion is very affordable meanwhile I could just dream about boosting my army every day in the past. The fact that I can find so much loot now that I can consistently upgrade my base and walls at the same time without even trying is baffling to me. I remember back when I was a th 7/10 and I was thinking in my head “I don’t even wanna get to th 10 because it’s gonna be impossible to max it”. Now? Boringly maxing my th 12. Also, an attack only takes a couple of hours off my shield..
Compare this to the past where I was constantly making new bases every day just so I can find the best one for protecting my resources because I NEEDED that. Too much elixir? It was time to redesign my whole base just so I can focus on protecting my gold. Just heroes and a couple dark troops left? Again, time for a dark elixir base. In the past CoC was also a way more “social” game. People were chatting all day because people had to be online. Especially if you trophy pushed, you literally couldn’t log out.
You had to wait hours for your army to train and you couldn’t log out because your entire shield would completely disappeared after a single attack and as a lower townhall that was a guaranteed 25-45 trophy minus, basically half a day or even a whole day of pushing wasted if I had an unlucky day. Clans are dead now. No one is online because no one has to be.
I remember when I had to calculate my sleep hours according to how many hours of shield I had left after letting someone attack me right before bed, I absolutely couldn’t risk an extra defense fail. Oh, the good times. Everything was so much more valuable because it was way more challenging. Personally, I preferred the game the way it was.
Probably most of you have no clue whatsoever about what I’m talking about, but I still see the game as it was in the past. I think it would have been different if I continuously played because I would’ve had time to adapt to the changes and wouldn’t get stuck in the past with all of these things. Don’t get me wrong, I still like the game. I like the fact that I’m being able to max my base while casually playing, without putting in much effort.
I could have only dreamed about the game being so easy back when I was a kid lol. But it’s an entirely different kind of game in my eyes. I don’t have an exact favourite genre of games, but I think one of the reasons I can’t play a game forever is because I get bored of the genre. What I’m trying to get to is that for me CoC used to be a competitive game in the past.
I used to lose interest because I was tired of the constant intensity and focus the game required, so I had to switch to something more relaxing. Well, now it’s the exact opposite. The old vibe this game used to give me is completely gone. For me the only challenging things left in the game are clan wars. Tho with everything else being so easy, I lost the fire I had within me. I don’t care about this game as much as I used to.
I don’t have the patience I once had to stay and study my enemy’s base for an hour straight and think about the best troop combination, think about every single route that my troops can possibly take and things like that. Now I just take a quick look, use a popular army which I think fits their base best and call it a day. I can’t trophy push, I already reached legends league as a lower townhall so it’s not like is impressive doing it again.
The mentality I’m playing this game with right now is that somehow, sometime, years from now, I will completely max out my base. Then, I’ll start trophy pushing for rank in the legends league and care about CWL which will finally make things hard again and re-ignite the lost fire within me. I had to have this rant. Couldn’t keep it in me any longer. Is there anyone else who can relate to what I’m saying or is it just me?
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