Less than a day ago · June 29, 2025 · 13 min read
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://royaleapi.com/blog/merge-tactics-2025-july?lang=en
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://royaleapi.com/blog/merge-tactics-2025-july?lang=en
You know why Touchdown got so ostracized? Because it is not Clash Royale. Is it a horrible game mode? Absolutely not, you can have quite some fun with friends. The thing is: Supercell hyped it up so much just to people to get angry at them because people play Clash Royale (this will sound shocking) TO PLAY CLASH ROYALE. It is fun to have it as a side game mode that you can play whenever, but it should never be the focus in detriment of the main game.
You know why Goblin Queen’s Journey got so hated? Because it is not Clash Royale, but you were forced to play it in order to get the brand new OP cards and the limited time emotes. A game mode that forces you to play specific cards to get rewarded by an unappealing gimmick is the antithesis of Clash Royale, we hated that they spent so much time and resources on this atrocious game mode that should have been shoved in the casual party section, not in its own realm of trophy road. My cousin downloaded the game just to test the Goblin Queen’s Journey out, played the tutorial, uninstalled the game and never touched it again. It was not appealing.
I am happy, albeit skeptical, to say that Supercell learned from these mistakes, partially. Merge Tactics is not required for limited emojis, nor new OP cards, despite the fact it has its own ladder system, big step. I believe it will (or should) stay as a side game option for the future, and this is good for the same reason that having Touchdown as a friendly battle option is good, it is different, it may be engaging, it may be good, it may bring back old players. I guess a good thing for this game mode is that they don’t need to monetize it, as the rest of the update was horrible for F2P players.
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I wish we were able to choose what modifiers we had for ourselfs it would result in some modifiers being deleted but would make the mode more fun overall