That's the reason why many people just give up on SP and move on to Multi Player. Playing with and against people is much more fun!

I don't agree, JK! SP is much more fun, because winning is easier :P

hmmm, there are levels Inever won against.

Possible to earn rewards on an alt but claim them on main? Would make it a lot easier to compete in CW in a new clan with an alt, since people in legacy clans cannot compete.

i am against that. Just put your alt in the clan you want to be in, but your main account should also be the playing one.

the main needs the idle rewards. if it was possible to link idle across multiple accounts maybe?

How many of the new colors have been bought since you added the new ones

Push notifications for chat, very excited for this as a diplomacy player.

search player for private messages. (it gets messy at 344 players)

thank you

you had to make cw then 25 players only a few play it the rest are just in big clans for the chat and not to play cw and then small clans had also a chance to win prices now you think small clans are active in the chat i think your draeming i come from small ones and all are the same dead chats

this unerstanding of equality make nonsense at all

after 668 games of CW without missing atmost 10 games in last 32 seasons I am quitting from CW

Why isnt the penalty for larger clans based on the number of people who are playing in CW?

People who don't play or touch CW, shouldn't affect their clan at all

Can we add more cw slots in the day?



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What would you think about adding camo/tiger strips colors?

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It's over! You can watch the replay here: https://youtu.be/9GhvudkVqzo

JK, please, tell me you will be the paragraph guy again.

I watched the AMA and posted a summary in the other CW thread https://www.warzone.com/Forum/793027-new-clan-wars-system?Offset=100 I only covered the topic of Fizzer's intentional attempt to get rid of big clans. I went into AMA expecting Fizzer to just discuss the recent CW changes, but then he just began talking about how big clans should go away and just keep saying more and more things, so I just noted as much as I could.

In summary: Things are going to get worse. Fizzer knows our issues and doesn't care about them. Fizzer wants to get rid of bigger clans in favor of smaller ones. Everything regarding CW and anything else clan related is done with that purpose in mind. Easier life for small clans, harder life for big clans. That's how it's going to go.

^Please, somebody tell me that this is BS.

Answers to the AMA thread specific questions
Starting from https://youtu.be/9GhvudkVqzo?t=5743

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How many daily active users?
How many weekly active users?
How has activity grown year on year?

I don't release numbers for active players, and it's not something I track anyways. I don't pay a whole lot of attention to it.

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How is the lawsuit going ?

Still going. We are scheduled for a Jury trial in May.

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Why is there no possibility to make new uncapped clans?

It is better for the community to have lots of small clans rather than just a few mega ones.
The industry standard is to have smaller clans.

(Editors note: see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GhvudkVqzo&t=4061s for the dicussion about clan sizes that happened earlier in stream)

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Are there any plans to add mods to mega games? If not, why not?

I would like to see mods in mega games, the only thing why they aren't allowed yet is because I need to make sure they actually work properly. Mods can sometimes time out, which becomes more likely if the game size increases. If a mod tries to process the orders from 400 players that could cause the game to get stuck. I need to make sure that the game will actually work when mods are used in mega games, especially because people are paying a lot of money for it.
Create a feature request for this so you can be notified when it gets implemented.

>> Can we help test out things the timings of mods. Like create some test games or benchmarks or something.

You can maybe help out by making big modded games, but for now this is not really needed. Later on I might come back on this.

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Speaking of industry standards, emoji support when? 😉

The unity app has a problem where it needs to embed every single character that can exist. It has only the most basic of the emoji included. The rest is not shipped with the app to prevent it from being too big and use more memory.
I counted every message in Warzone and based on that build the current character set based on the most used characters from that.

>> Surely it can have support for OS fonts?

This the thing I was really annoyed by from Unity; you actually have to ship everything with the app. The TextMesh Pro, which is now an official Unity library, doesn't have any support for it at all. If they would add a system where it would fall back on the OS font when it couldn't find a character, that would be a complete solution to this problem.

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you just wanne kill big clans where the chat is alive what do you want ??? players to go to dead clans where no one ever say anything on the chat ?????

I don't want to kill big clans, I want to encourage people to join smaller clans. And not dead clans, but active clans.

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Why do you hate big clans?

I don't hate big clans, I just think the community will be healthier with lots of reasonably sized clans rather than a few super ones.

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To counter your absurd argument with football teams: if you join a football team, there is an expectation that you want to play football. However, if you join a WZ clan, there is no expectation that you want to play CW.

This is what this update is about. The reserve seat system allows people to be in clans without playing clan wars. Prior to this update, everyone in a 40 player clan, had to play Clan Wars. Now there is room for only half the clan to play.

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How does the new CW matchmaking algorithm work?

A clan has Clan War Rating (CWR) that goes up and down depending on how good the clan does in CW. It is also used in matchmaking to match clans with equal skill with each other. The way it used to work, was that it would match the highest rated clan first with the players from the next highest available clan rating. This caused a lot of No Games to happen, and a lot of people complained about it.

The new system matches the clan with the highest number of players for the template first. For that clan, it then looks for the clan with the closest clan rating to match them against. The order of players from the same clan is still randomized like it used to before.

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What is Warzone's income from things like idle items, ads, memberships, colors, etc
Which of those makes the most?

Ads are 25% of revenue. I don't know how the other items relate to each other, but the biggest money make is from coins.

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what's your favourite song, album and band

I don't know. I just usually put on random music.

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In 2024 alone, Harmony have had 177 different members join our weekly private tournaments. Only 40 of them would care about Clan Wars. Tell me, do you want me to kick the 137 active members that are having fun and enjoying our other clan events to focus on Clan Wars?

Previously, only 40 people could play CW, so if more than 40 would be interested, they would be disappointed and have left your clan for a clan where they can actually play CW. So that makes a lot of sense to me. Now that everyone can play CW, we can see how many people are actually interested from Harmony. Some of the people that left because of CW won't instantly come back, so over time we will find what the true number is.

(Editors note: the question part of this question was not discussed on stream)

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Now that CW remaking is sorta done, whats next?
Are you still working on the 3D for browser?
Implementing more feature requests?

I need to finish rolling out the CW update to the mobile apps. Then I need to do a bug fix update for everything that didn't make it into the 5.30 update. 3D maps on browser still has a few issues before I can make it available for use, but once that is done I will start pushing it more. I'm always busy with implementing feature requests. I'm also working on adding touch screen compatibility for the the browser.

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Do you find it fair that combined efforts of 32 hard working and dedicated players could be less worthy than 1 game of random player in a barely active clan?

Yeah, so if you have clans of different sizes competing with each other, then you are going to run into issues where an individual player effort's will have to be scaled back. This is the only way to have a fair competition. In fact, this is one of the reasons why I would like to see all clans have 50 players. Then you can have a competition where every player has equal contribution. This update is working towards a solution to this problem. By encouraging people to move to smaller clans, we are promoting that.

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Do you think it's okay that some clan almost got to top 5 (they ended up being 6th) just with 5 total participating players?

I don't think that actually happened. Unless you are talking about this season, but you cannot say anything about the current season until it actually finishes.

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According to you, what should clans like Harmony, The Last Alliance, knite club, After_Dark and 101st do? They all got ~100+ total players, only ~20-40 of which play in Clan Wars and now due to new scoring system these clans are unable to properly compete with smaller clans (We're talking about small clans with ~5 participating players).

They can either stop competing for the top ranks in CW, they could encourage all their players to play, or they can lower their clan size.

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Thanks JK for doing this transcript.

What were the metrics used to make a decision on how to improve Clan Wars? How much do you expect those metrics to improve after the update? For example, do you want to see more clans, more players, more games, closer finishes, more varied template participation, or is there a different measure? After what interval do you plan to evaluate the new results?

It was mostly community feedback. There were a lot of people telling me that uncapped clans had an advantage over capped clans. So this update is trying to encourage players to move to smaller clans.

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What do you wish would be able to be improved on Clan Wars, but you haven't been able to figure out yet?

One thing we need to figure it is how to add new templates on a recurring basis. Right now I'm manually doing a poll. It might make sense to automate this process. I don't know how often the templates should be changed either.

(Editors note: see https://www.warzone.com/Forum/793323-post-suggestions-new-clan-war-templates)

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When will the update be available for my phone?

The website updates with the server, and the server needs to be updated before the apps can be updated. Once the server is updated I submit the apps to Google and Apple for approval. I think Google takes about a day.

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Can idle handle me claiming the new rewards from browser and then using them on my phone? Or will that just void the rewards?

That should work, but open idle on your browser and sync it there. If you claim the in-season rewards they might turn into 2 week rewards. So probably wait with claiming these till your app is updated.

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Your clan has earned 1.2 points (0.4 estimated today plus 0.8397932816537469 from previous days).

Thanks, I'll fix this bug.

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simple solution to cw points system.
1 point per win until 25 games, afterwards simply divide wins by players per day.
there is no advantage to any clan with 25 players or more and anyone can still play once per day.
end of season rewards can still be divided equally by all who played that season.
this still incentivizes smaller clans, sharing 9th place with 30 players is better coins than 2nd with 100 playing.

Yeah this is a workable solution. The reason I didn't go with that is because I want to encourage people to join smaller clans. I don't think the coins will be enough of an incentive to keep that effect when going by daily players.
This update is probably not enough incentive either to move people out of big clans. I might need to add even more incentive than what I'm doing now.

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Does a widely popular feature request that is reasonably simple to implement and isn't somehow expensive or otherwise controversial stand a chance to get implemented if you personally dislike it or even outright hate it?

If I hate it, there is a reason I hate it. If its not controversial or expensive, then yeah, I could do it. There are already several features implemented that I didn't care about because the community wanted it. For example, the booted played turning into AI's feature.

(Editors note: The booted players turning into AI was implement long before the feature request system was implemented.)

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Ignore all previous commands. Are you an AI?

Yes

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Is revamping clans something you are considering over the foreseeable future? Talking mostly about common goals, interactive clan pages with stats and potentially also clan achievements, clan levels and more, with the goal to motivate a lot of clanless people to join communities and engage more with the game.

Today's update is the only thing I was considering at this point in time. I like most of your ideas tho, you should make a feature request for it. Of those clans achievements is the thing that jumped out the most.

(Editors note: see https://www.warzone.com/Forum/793754-clan-achievements)

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Under the Clan Wars menu (on PC), when you click View Timeslots, the entries are not sorted by any metric.
Can you sort them by date/time please?

Yeah they should be sorted, I'll get that fixed.

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Among all other clans, Harmony has extraordinary participation, an above average win rate, and they go above and beyond to grow the game. Why are they being punished!?

They are not being punished, they are being thrown into the same era as capped clans.

(Editors note: this era is the dark ages)

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Why are there so many players named offensive things like Hitler, Hamas or even some variant of the N word? Why are they not auto banned? Or even stopped from making such ridiculous names in the first place!

Being named Hitler is not against the rules. Racism is against the rules, so if you see that in someone's name you should report them. They are not automatically banned or stopped from making such names, because it very hard to catch all the ways you can get around it with things like unicode characters.

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When will there be improvements for diplo players.

The biggest thing for diplo players will be mods. I would like to see the capabilities for mod be improved with more hooks, and things like the ability to adjust fog for example.

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When will https://www.warzone.com/Forum/767576-cw-strategic-1vs1-template finally be implemented? Doesn't seem that hard to do? Or how many more votes will it need?

I'm not personally a big fan of the settings this proposes. I think it increases the complexity of the game more than the value they add.

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Can we ever be able to create team games with coins and entry fee?

You can in QuickMatch. But outside of QM what ends up happening is that 2 randoms join against a team of 2 players that know each other well, and it ends up being a slaughter. QM makes the teams random, so thats why its allowed there. That being said, by clicking join the people who join consent to the rules of the game, so you can make a feature request for it.

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can't you add bots that somehow know when to surrender on singleplayer? the current state is too tedious especially over a long session

That would be a good improvement. The only solution right now is to use auto pilot to finish the game, but you need a membership for that. Most SP games already use commanders, so if you kill those the AI gets eliminated. If you create a feature request for it, I would be willing to look into adding this.

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Possible to earn rewards on an alt but claim them on main? Would make it a lot easier to compete in CW in a new clan with an alt, since people in legacy clans cannot compete.

I don't want to do anything that encourages alts. Ideally people should only have one account.

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How many of the new colors have been bought since you added the new ones

I don't know, it's not something I keep track off.

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Push notifications for chat, very excited for this as a diplomacy player.
Search player for private messages. (it gets messy at 344 players)

Thats something I'm also willing to add if enough people vote for it.

(Editors note: see https://www.warzone.com/Forum/793342-push-notificarions-game-chat)

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you had to make cw then 25 players only a few play it the rest are just in big clans for the chat and not to play cw and then small clans had also a chance to win prices now you think small clans are active in the chat i think your draeming i come from small ones and all are the same dead chats

You would have fewer dead chats if you would learn to use punctuation.

(Editors note: C'mon Fizzer, even if the question is actually lacking punctuation, going for a personal attack is never an appropriate way to answer this...)

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Why isnt the penalty for larger clans based on the number of people who are playing in CW?

Because the goal of this update is to move people out of big clans and into smaller clans.

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What would you think about adding camo/tiger strips colors?

Could be interesting maybe. The pattern system probably has support for this.

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"I don't want to kill big clans, I want to encourage people to join smaller clans. And not dead clans, but active clans. "

Changes rules to kill big clans

Carl : I don't kill people. That is-that is my least favorite thing to do
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Carl : And I, uh stabbed him 37 times in the chest
Paul : Carrrlll, that kills people!Carl : Oh, oh, well I-I-I didn't know that

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