UPrep students believe Supercell ruined their game, Clash Royale, in early January with unwanted additions to the game.

Clash Royale is a mobile strategy game, made by a company called Supercell, where players collect and level up different cards to make their decks better.

 Students who talked with Puma Prints started playing Clash Royale in late 2025. Sixth grader Sam Swanson played a couple of years ago but came back when popular streamer and YouTuber Jynxzi started playing.

“It was hyped up by Jynxzi at that time. So I started playing again,” Swanson said. 

Swanson was far from alone: looking at a chart from Google Trends, it shows that the climax of Clash Royale’s popularity was four months ago, right when Jynxzi was at his peak of posting videos relating to Clash Royale.

People had lots of fun and made great memories playing Clash Royale. One student’s favorite moment was when he hit 10,000 trophies. Each game you win, you get 30 trophies, and when you lose a game, you lose 30. So hitting 10,000 trophies is a huge accomplishment.

“Happy, and, if you made it, you feel so good,” eighth grader Jack Lesh said after getting 10,000 trophies. 

Some people who were dedicated early on were able to make it to the ultimate goal of 10,000 trophies without spending money. Others who weren’t able to make it before the addition of the more upgraded version of cards, called heroes, said it was nearly impossible.

Lots of people had the same answer to why they quit as seventh grader Rory Sainsbury.  

“Bad updates, yeah, that’s what did it for me,” Sainsbury said. 

Talking to UPrep students, they all said that the addition of the heroes broke the game, saying they were too overpowered, and if you could pay to buy them, you would win. 

“The game is already pay-to-win, so that just made it worse,” Sainsbury said.

Some students went so far as to say that it was impossible to have any fun when the game was this pay-to-win. 

“I got to 7,000 trophies,” sixth grader Ellis Nelson said. “Now I was so under-leveled, and it was basically unplayable. I just couldn’t do anything.”