Poor matchmaking, rigged matches and connection issues

Despite playing Clash Royale for over 6 months now, I am afraid my journey is over, at least for the time being, until these three major issues are fixed.

In all fairness, this game is actually pretty good visually. The cards look nice, the UI is good, and the arena design is great. However, this game has become frustratingly difficult due to 3 glaringly obvious issues.

1. Poor matchmaking

When a player wins a certain amount of matches, the algorithm punishes the player by pitting them against players 1-3 levels higher than them with a multitude of legendary cards. This, for the record, is extremely poor game design. The game should reward you for winning, not the other way around. Obviously, when I mean reward, I mean consistently allow the player to have fair matches with other players. Instead, the game makes it virtually impossible to progress after winning just a few matches.

Which brings me to my next point...

2. Rigged matches

After winning several matches, games become, for lack of a better term, rigged.

When you select a new deck, the games algorithm begins analyzing the decks of players you win and lose against. The algorithm stores this data for the next time youre on a winning streak.

Then, on the match on which you will be punished, the algorithm pairs you with a player with a similar or same deck combination you have been losing against. The algorithm continues to do this until youre on a losing streak, when the cycle resets and you may be matched a more fair player with a more or less random deck. But it still makes it unbelievably difficult to progress. This can be circumvented by switching and creating new decks in very short amounts of time to confuse the algorithm, but why should we have to do such a tedious thing in a game thats supposed to be fun? It just doesnt make sense.

3. Connection issues

This one is quite straightforward. Supercell, your connection issues have frankly gotten to the point where playing a match in my living room is near impossible at times due to lag and other connection issues. Your other games dont have these issues; I can play against people just fine in Clash of Clans and Boom Beach. I shouldnt have to go to my router room just to get a decent connection.

Hopefully Supercell recognizes and fixes these issues in coming updates; but because the first two are mostly motivated by greed (more loss=more likely to buy gems with real life money), I wholeheartedly doubt it.

Ill stick to CoC for now. Hopefully, Supercell will understand that their fans dont particularly enjoy being stomped on by level 9s and 10s when theyre only level 7 or 8.

-AP

Funny sad frog man about Clash Royale, v1.8.1