We NEED to talk about level 15 in Clash Royale... 

My vid shows the fix for this update. *Here's the fix for the future & full update context* I love this game, and I want what's best for it so I will never filter what I think. Typically all my feedback has been done privately, directly to developers. Sometimes I spend more time giving constructive feedback than I do making videos; for the last update I spent 12+ hours. The problem is that we don't get the updates in time for our feedback to result in changes. Updates are close to finalized and creators are like "this NEEDS to change" and clash royale WANTS to listen but since they have a promised update to the public & timeline to meet, the update gets pushed out without all the changes necessary. Even when the intentions of the team are good, the update will completely miss the mark. As a result, we have to do problem-solving & fixing with update ALREADY put in place and solidified in the game, which makes it unbelievably difficult to do. As you can clearly see by path of legends restricting level 15 for 6 months, they tried a fix before the update went live, but it's not even close to enough. This became a mess because there wasn't time set aside for communication and fixes; it was too late to make real changes and release an update we all want. We saw the elite wild card conversion numbers & the progression route in time to make content on it, but not in time to do the math & give practical feedback on how to change the economy in a way they'd be able to implement in time since the update was scheduled and ready to be shipped out. Admittedly, I didn't know what to expect when I went to Finland since the update for losers was such a disappointment. I had never met any of the team in person and I set my expectations low so I wouldn't be disappointed. When I arrived, I was amazed by how big the team got and how passionate everyone was about making clash royale better - Every. Single. Person. They went hours over the time we had scheduled with them, had ample cool ideas on how to improve the game, and listened to all of our feedback. I can say without a doubt, they do care - A LOT. I left Finland more motivated than ever to bounce back to creating clash content, and then this unfortunate update dropped. It's so sad because passionate people are getting flamed for "not caring" and the update isn't implemented in a way the community wants at all either! Seeing this unravel 1st hand is nothing short of devastating. ALL of this could be avoided if we got the updates earlier with more time to give actionable input. I would love "work in progress update/work in progress update ideas" like they do with balance changes or even a clash royale podcast keeping the community updated. If the community doesn't like the direction things are going, we can say it early on. Fixing something at the start is always easier than when it's already built out & ready to go; no precious development time is wasted on something that doesn't work. If they have problems developing something, if it's not implementable or takes more time, they can communicate it so we can understand. If there's not enough communication, the disconnect causes worse updates and an angry, less understanding community. The "work in progress update" made balance changes 10x better because it incorporated us from the start with clear communication, fixing things people found problematic along the way. Instead of handing us a finalized update, this method of communication & inclusiveness would make clash royale the best it's ever been.

You know it’s a problem when every content creator is saying it’s a problem.

I love how Jake was fully honest and not sucking up to supercell. He stayed composed and calm, thanks for the opinion jake!

No shade on other creators, but this was by far the best video on Lv 15. Jake was critical of the update and not sugarcoating it but was also very understanding about the situation the devs are in and how we should be critical of the update itself and not the people (especially since the people we have access to aren't in charge of the update). And collaborating the suggestions into something that the devs could easily follow and has a direction instead of just "bad update. bad" with no suggestions was just the cherry on top. Great job mate.

I feel like it’s going to be difficult for clash royale’s devs to ignore all these creators coming together. Thanks for speaking out in a calm manner tag. Loved the stream today too ❤️.

So glad to see you make a video on this. Level 15 really has me down😔 it seems impossible and I was so close to finally being maxed. I love the card evolutions but this really makes me wanna just give up at this point. Jake, you’ve kept me going in this game and I think you will continue to do that so thank you! You’ve got great ideas and I love your attitude about this! I love the path of legends at tournament standard.

The fact that you took the effort to list out great ideas to fix the problem shows just how much you care for the game. Its exactly what we need more of, constructive criticism. All the points in the vid and the pinned comment are spot on. Glad to see you leading the charge in the right way

2V2 needs more options, maybe a ladder system; more game modes, and more challenges

Love how Sirtag slams lvl 15 but still sounds so positive. Stay upbeat, man!

I really love cosmetics and customization. The banners, the emotes, the towers. I’m really sad they never continued adding star level costumes for all the cards. It’s only a handful of them that have unique ones. Hoping they could add stuff like that instead

Really good point about how levels don't actually add anything since interactions always stay constant

SIRprising to see him actually speak out against an update. Respect

So glad content creators are speaking up, it's one of the two ways to get the devs to actually listen to the community. Although difficult to stop playing a game we all love, I think that if enough people don't play and don't let them milk you for your money, they will have to make a change. It pains me to see a devs kill their own game, a game we love

Excellent video Jake. I'm glad you took the time to comment on the situation. I think tournament standard ranked play would be an amazing change. Even with that, I still think they need to reduce the amount of elite wild cards significantly (50% or more). I'm hopeful that the developers are really going to take the community's feedback into consideration and do justice by the game.

Sir you made me literally think about this situation in a different point of view you're amazing! It really helped me get a clearer view of the situation and I feel a bit comfortable that the CR team thinks so much for so many different types of players. Love your energy!

Tag I just want to commend you on your transparency and your tact during this. I watched your streams where you took the time to explain why you were waiting to upload this and your pride in your content quality. We need more like you

This guy makes interesting, upbeat, entertaining and extremely well edited videos every single day WITH live streams!! Amazing

Really impressed with the maturity and responsibility Tag has with this video. Incredibly thoughtful, respectful, constructive, relational and of course, positive. Kudos to Supercell for having a content creator network and being open to their feedback. It’s a tool that will ensure the game’s sustainability. Keep up the great work, Tag-team!

Im so glad you talked about this, because your content is all about different ways to play, playing with all kinds of cards and decks, experimenting and having fun, and the level 15 will ruin all this if unchanged, keep up the good work man!

the best part of this video is that it doesn't just complain but brings multiple solutions to the issue.

Tag, you did a great job putting things into perspective and actually cleverly put up these solutions, which no other clash royale youtuber/creator has done yet. Even with all the hate surrounding this update, you kept an uplifting fresh vibe which is really nice to see. Superb video!

thank you for making a video about this. Love your vids, this issue definitely needed to be addressed

Proud of you for speaking out my dude!!! Thought you might keep shut but thanks for this!!! There’s a HUGE mass exodus going on and it hate to see this game go to poop….

I'm glad you made this video tag. right now, with as big of a change as it is it's important that the community gets to speak their mind in a constructive way and you do a great job encouraging it. I agree with your solutions and I think it'd be great to add those special troop effects once someone reaches the max level. maybe having different color options for those cards like white or burning red fireball. or purple, white or black wizards that can then shoot different color fireballs. maybe even the option to choose old star levels to revert your troops to the OG forms

Glad content creators are speaking out. Its the only real way to get the devs to listen.

Love how all the creators are coming together about Level 15 and I'm glad that tag came to drew in a calm manner and got his opinions across and i completely agree with what tag id saying and said

Wow, I didn't expect you to speak up too SirTag! Not because I thought you would approve of Level 15 or anything, but just because you rarely make meta content about the game. Still, you're my favorite Clash Royale youtuber, and seeing even you speak up despite it being out of your wheelhouse means a lot. Thanks SirTag!

Thanks for sharing your half glass full perspective on the issue at hand! I think any of those solutions would be great as well. Saw ur comment about a health concern, glad things will work out for ya in that regard! Keep up the great work my guy!

Honestly at first I thought level 15 was going to be neat when they mentioned it being free but now after seeing how much grind it is for 1 single card is insane

mad respect especially how he puts it at the end of the video, if we work with the developers (together) we can make it!

Such a great take tag. I was really worried about how people were attacking the cr devs and drew on reddit. Glad to see such a productive conversation between you two.

Thank you so much for standing up and talking about this problem in CR, I love how you are not scared to talk about the big issues and thank you for talking about it so respectively.

Love the idea of the level 11 cap it would make the game so much more fair and with trophy road still being higher level cards it would also give players that opportunity. Love the way you addressed this situation tag keep up the good work and love your content!!!

It could be great to have a ladder for 2v2. It's another way to have fun with friends and there's even a potential competitive side

I'm just here to support you. I love your content and always feel you're an honest person. We'll see how thus turns out.

Nice one jake! It is important to understand that being a game developer is not easy as they have to consider many people's opinions on the game and everyone has different ideas and solutions, so giving them opinions to have the game and the community come together and have fun instead of trashtalking them is a great idea

Thank you Tag, for trying to do SOMETHING to inform about this update. We NEED to do something about this.

It’s definitely a problem if sirtag is just talking to us

Thanks for talking about this tag I really wanted you to speak about this because your the goat and you and the rest of the clash Royale creators talking about this could help change this game 🙏

Good stuff. As a 7 year player that doesn’t spend much aside from the pass I JUST finally got everything leveled up. I don’t mind the grind getting to a new level as it does give me something to do but it should be obtainable like you said. Also something completely overlooked is the leader UI for managing clan members. It is non functional and takes way too much time to sort players that are inactive or don’t participate in war. Having to demote, find again in list and demote to only have to find them and kick them if needed is a pain. Also without a easy way to determine if players do not compete in war and easily remove is time consuming. As the leader of my clan it is important to keep active players and ones that participate in war to keep us competitive. Hard to do that without proper tools.

I am surprised Tag is talking about this, even more surprised he sounds so positive while critical.😂 Edit: A cool edition in my opinion would be, after a game is finished you could have a set animation for your idle units in the arena. Like have them pop into Tombstones, Ghosts, or Hearts for an example. Like how the Graveyard does after you get 3 Crowned and Skeletons are still spawning.

They should add a feature where you can customize you side of the arena like having a different checkered scenery or king and princess outfits, and you can unlock then with new cards from loot pools and depending on outfit and scenery rarity the amount of cards will vary e.g. rare princess and king outfits could be like 30 cards, common could be 10 etc. Hopefully they could add this as it would add a personal touch to the clash royal experience just like your emotes and banners. You can unlock the cards from your basic chests,from the shop or from clan War leagues

It definitely needs to be a mix of all 3 solutions to make the game fun again. Thanks Jake for making an awesome video and taking time to speak on this situation and make productive solutions!

I was waiting for this video from you tag and I’m glad to see a well thought out and well made video. Love the content❤️

Even when talking about the possible downfall of clash royale you still have that happy energy form every video

I started playing this game even before it was officially released in my country and see how they are ruining the game just breaks my heart, i have a lot of good memories playing this game,like when I unlocked the first legendary ,many years ago 😢

Jake, I really appreciate that you took the time for this video. You're my favorite content creator (of all, not just CR) so I like hearing your take on the updates. I also appreciate you modeling good behavior, namely, focusing on the changes and avoiding personal insults. This is good advice for all aspects of life.

Awesome response Jake and well spoken like a true sir. I would also personally love to see the tournament standard ranked so that way myself and a lot of others can finally get into without worrying about level disadvantages. I also would love to see return of getting chests from party modes again, it was nice to farm chests without wanting constantly have to push ladder if you're comfortable in a certain arena or just lazy lol Hope you're staying healthy and feel better soon brother

Tag, keep up the grinding man! I know there’s a lot of comments about creators talking about how bad this is but I think yours stands out because you gave the problems and the solutions to those problems. I hope Super Cell watches this video because it is worth it!

It’s fun like you said you wanted, fun for a game is getting to do more, especially when you’ve completed everything it’s something new for you to gain happiness

Love you sirtag! I love how positive you were and you brought up great points, the devs are people after all

what about deck augmentations that require a certain combination of cards to activate? and the more you level up and level the cards up, the more wacky combinations you can get. and you’d have to play with certain decks to find these augments, which would incentivize more players to try new things. like it could be anything from having all three minion cards in a deck giving them a boost in health or damage, or having three giant cards give them a massive health boost to make them truly “giant”. and the more you level up and the higher level the cards are, the stronger the boost.

This was a great video giving the community more info and the band on Drew's shirt is pretty good too thanks for uploading Tag have a great day

Was waiting for this vdo. You unintentionally built it up during one of your streams and was genuinely looking forward to it. Without creators like you, would have probably quit the game and play something else. You keep the game alive and you deserve all the code income that Supercell provides. But anyways just wanted to say you are my favorite Royale creator and keep up the good work!

Thanks for taking the time to make a proper video about this topic, sticking up for the community and offering suggestions, and most of all for always staying positive for us. Love you, Tag

I completely agree I just feel like it’s not the same fun clash Royale. Great vid

I really enjoy your content, keep up the good job

Great video, as always. I would love to see some cool cosmetics added for level 15, which I'm sure has been suggested before. The artwork coming out lately and design is really impressive. I know it would take time to implement but I think card skins could be really cool. Like in brawl stars where you can change the appearance of your cards. Players love cosmetics and would introduce another revenue stream to the game. Think things like comanche princess, teutonic Knight. Maybe true silver and true gold? Showing off unique skins is way more of a flex than an extra level that's currently far too ptw to be viable.

I really liked the soundtrack for this season's event, a nice change of genre within music The idea i was thinking was adding some sort of jukebox so you could change the soundtrack of the game anytime like different genre of music or themed music for specific card character. And to get those soundtrack you can get it by achieving them either spending tickets, getting towards certain amount of trophies, discovering easter eggs, leveling up and winning challenges. Something worth grinding for or discovering

Great video as always... I agree with ya on the update. But if it were up to me, I would have the elite wildcards needed to upgrade half the amount it currently is and then add something cool for us whenever we get a card to level 15. Like a mastery pass reward type of deal. Except it would be like a cool cosmetic. Heck, maybe even give us a wild shard so we can make it easier to upgrade evos in the future.

Great video jake! Complaining about the update but also providing solutions, a true good sir

SirTag is such a great clash Royale RU-vidr. Your my favorite one and keep up the great work!

Ty for speaking honestly for your community

It’s so good to have everyone standing against level 15, even super positive people like sirtag. For my ideas for level 15, I agree with the concept of level 15 being cosmetic, or maybe it unlocks new masteries or leveling something to level 15 can allow you to get new card art for the card you upgraded and maybe king level 15 should give you the ability to choose which arena you see while playing, as many people enjoy a certain arena just to have it taken away.

Loved ur miner exe balloon deck btw, so fun and op! Why wasnt it in the ‘best decks’ stream, it seems super safe with great outplay potential. Are there some meta hard counters or something? Love this vid and love ur channel as alwyas!

I think more chat emotes sounds exciting to work for. More skins and even your side of the map skin's for the arena sounds cool. Different skins for troops spunds awesome too

Glad you spoke up!!!! Well done.

Insanely well done. Worth the wait. Most of the yt’s banding together has to gain the devs attention.

i agree 100% with your point that people should converse with the bigger picture in mind.

that clip with drew makes me feel pretty optimistic about level 15 moving forward, my main concern was with path of legends

I quit Clash Royale but I'll watch your content since you're what made me play and download the game, hopefully they do improve their update which might make a lot of players redownload the game Love your videos and I agree on what you've said in this video

Tag man I love your energy. I am a big fan of both you and brad, and I gotta say while brad sounds like he's attending a funeral you give positive constructive feedback which is pleasant to the ear. Keep it up!

I really like that chill type of dicussion. Many players ot ccs like to freak out and just say, the ud is bad. Having some solutions ready is in my opinion the best way to go

Watching this just made me realise just how easy the solution to the problem really is. Great video

If we had something like "dual-troop power" that is, when two or more cards are played and are alive together in the field they should posess some shared abilities ( only level 14 cards ) . An example scenario could be : if a witch and a mini pekka ( both at level 14 ) are dropped in the field, the minipekka can also generate skeletons or attack like witch and witch's power will also be increased due to mini pekka's power ! it will give players new startegies and combinations to explore and make the game play more fun !

I have 5 clash accounts and I love the game and with it being g like it is right now for the first time I am having a hard time trying to keep playing. I have been playing for 6 years and still with monthly pass only had half my cards maxed out. Now this has made it different.

Love this approach to trying to fix this problem. My idea would be a level cap you adjust. For example if you have 1 or 2 decks upgraded to level 13 set your cap to 13 whilst you collect more cards and when your ready push your cap up. I would put caps starting at 11 and cannot face higher than the cap you select

love your idea of a clan special item for end game content. i wish they would revamp clan wars and have it meaningful. the clan i have been apart of is pretty much dead and most OG players have moved once since the latest clan war update. wish you could just play directly against other clan members and make those games more meaningful.

I'm definitely happy about Ranked being capped at 11, I never really played it until recently and the first match I was up against someone with lv 9 cards while I had lv 12-13 cards, did not feel like a deserved win and in a system where skill should be the defining factor for how the match plays out, it was definitely unfair for the other player. I'm glad they're making this change, as for level 15 I'm not too worried about it as someone who is still fairly underlevelled and I pretty much get stomped by anyone with lv 14 cards anyways.

This was a very mature and productive video, keep it up!

Awesome video. Gives me hope for the game. I’m finally to the point where I’m maxed and can mess around with different decks and expand my skills and this def felt like a kick in the face after spending so much time and money getting to this point. I love your constructive criticism and ideas for change! Let’s hope supercell hears us!

Thanks for speaking out for the community sirtag! We need more awesome content creators like you!!❤

I had a great idea about how to fix the lv 15 elite cards, midway between what supercell wants and what players want. Basically the idea is that they keep elite cards require their 50k ewc each, but every player can choose ONLY A SINGLE elite card in their deck to be at lv 15 during battles. This can bring more and more strategies whether or not a card benefits more than others being overlevelled, it keeps the "long term progression" idea supercell has, it doesn't feel that much unfair facing an opponent with only one card that's overlevelled, and last but not least this idea works really well with the rewards we get, since in a month or so we can basically get an elite card. This should make elite cards REALLY "elite"; I even thought that, in order to have a more fair first season since the launch of the update, they could make players have a temporary choice of what card they want to be boosted to elite lv, until they get one. I wrote this idea in the comment section of other videos and on Reddit, and man, I saw a large amount of people writing their own ideas that sound better than what supercell did. If only they read what we as players write and say, we could all be more satisfied with the updates.

IThe level of frustration that their "solutions" create is insane. I like your solutions, nice way of thinking and thanks for the pedagogy. Another Idea : massive quests, like for one season play with a specific win condition in ranked mode. Would need to be optional of c. Or win a CC or GC with a given deck...

Great video, great to see the game cares what the community has to say!❤️

The third solution you suggested about setting PoL at tournament level standard and separating it from trophy road seems perfect to me. Can you think of any issues that the players or developers might have that would prevent this from being the solution?

SuperCell: It's not about the money everyone!" SuperCell: releases 600 different "special offers" as soon as the update goes live.

Great ides tag! The only thing that needs to get touched on more is the change from 300 gems in masteries to varying amounts of gold, this is the main source of gold for f2p players like me and there's no reason to change that

They teased us saying it wasn't going to cost gold but then made the amount of wild cards it's going to take ridiculous. As a casual player, it took me years to get to Ultimate Champion upgrading cards "and some by mistake" given the changing Meta's. But now I have to expect years before I can have a equal deck again. I get though from a business perspective because I literally dropped Pass Royale when I got most of my main deck level 14 but seems for now way to far away to want to keep investing my time in the game. Make it allot cheaper and I might get motivated.

Jake I was talking with my brother and I said that when they keep eventually adding more evolutions, it’ll be harder to get them all because they’ll be too many cards to evolve and with little shards that you get (while remaining free to play)

Hi Jake, thank you for being such a respectful person. I've had a crazy idea and maybe it's a bit over the top. Imagine together with manually enforced balance changes and on top of card evolutions, cards would evolve randomly. Good cards (i.e., cards with higher win rates) would be automatically nerfed and weak cards would be automatically buffed by changing their elixir cost by +/- 1 or by increasing/decreasing their respective health, damage, first hit, death damage, area of influence, range etc. On top of that imagine everyone would have slightly different card stats due to evolution. But maybe that's an idea for a whole new game then... Blessings from Germany!

Well said as always tag, hats off to you. Super excited about evolutions myself, can't wait to see my favorite cards having evolutions. But, just like 95% of the community, I think lvl 15 should either be reworked or removed. I'm sure they've heard enough of our feedback, I just hope they make a move

Thanks for addressing this issue in a whole video by itself. I love clash and I just can’t catch up with these people with level 15

Dude i appreciate this so much. If it wasn't for you creators, things would've probably been even worse than this

And now they made it 50,000 commons to max not 25000. It's nice to see they are listening to you

I don't mind the extra grinding, I love it when I can always grind a game and get satisfaction. I feel like that card level 15 wouldn't be bad if either conversion rates were different, and/or it added artwork instead of altering interactions so it was just a fun way to grind that was optional rather than mandatory to play. I feel like they removed the ability to share 2vs2 matches with your friends without a single reason or cause. I love 2vs2 matches, to me it adds another dynamic so, maybe they can add a 2vs2 ladder at some point as well as fixing that.

That clip from the interview hits the nail on the head

I’d really enjoy some card skins. Lightning could be different colors, fireball could be a kitchen sink or random objects, explosions for when your tower gets destroyed. Clan boat customization?

Was wondering if this would come out.. thanks for still staying positive.

Honestly I really liked where they took card evolutions and agree with everything you said about that, but lvl 15 is where they loose me too because you can’t even trade within your clan for those wild cards and that’s how I’ve been able to get most of my cards to the level they’re at now