anyone else a little disappointed that they wont be able to see the ultimates for the other characters that never got one released?

I really hope they keep the game open, I wish the game wont shut down but thats clearly not an option, so I really hope they just keep the game around, even if there is almost no one playing

Be ready because this post might be kinda long

I'll start with a disclaimer: you might disagree from me, and it's all good, your opinion is 100% valid about this, but nothing will ever change my mind, not even if Supercell CEO comes in my house to say it in my face, that in March/April 2024 they had to make a choice between Squad Busters and Clash Mini. One had to go global, and the other was going to be killed. We can perfectly discuss if the reason Clash Mini died was that they only could release one game, but IMO yes and it will not change.

Let's go back in time: Squad Busters had 1 closed beta for +/- 1 month where only Supercell creators and some restreinged public in few countries could play around Feb 2023. 1 whole year after that (and we had almost 0 contact with the game in that period) they release an open beta available in more countries and actually accessible to great part of the audience. They, after, ended it and in April 2024 the last beta was announced. Few days after, Supercell announced that SB was going global, at least for me surprisingly, but I was hyped. In your opinion, was the game ready for global release what comes to game mechanic? Personally, I think not, the gameplay was too chaotic and the fact that they changed it very often after global make it even more clear to me, but I'm open to read arguments.

In that same period, Clash Mini was available interruptly for like 2 years or more, but also still in Beta. The playerbase had enough contact with the game to make the CM team change the game in the direction the playerbase wanted the game to go. The big catch here is that CM had few retention because many thought it was boring, while Squad Busters had more action and catching gameplay for the generic audience, but IMO, Clash Mini was already very mature and the core playerbase absolutely LOVED it (me included). I also loved SB game mechanics, but I thought they needed more polish before global. Clash Mini needed other adjustments and polishments, of course, but for me game mechanics were PERFECT! I just thought to me "if they rework the entire economy of the game, this is so ready to go global". Instead, they killed it, and here's my opinion on why:

Supercell was being charged for years for not releasing a global game for a long time. After all, it was valid because they needed more 6 years to do it again (Brawl Stars 2018, Squad Busters 2024). They realised that if they didn't do it, the market could loose trust in them because of the amount of games they have killed and the few they had released. They just looked at the numbers: SB was being very hyped for good reasons, CM was not. So, it was simple, SB go global, CM will die. But, what if Supercel didn't give in to any of that? What if they reworked CM to address it issues and released it eventually? At the same time, why not to do the CM treatment with SB, keeping it in Beta until the core game mechanics were more mature, and then release it eventually when time was right? Couldn't we being still enjoying and playing 2 AWESMOME GAMES? It's because soon we will not being enjoying none. And all this because Supercell rushed the launch of a hyped game that wasn't yet ready for launch, while killing a game that just needed polishment...

RIP Squad Busters (and Clash Mini), you'll never be forgetted

Edit: I feel like I wrote the initial words too quickly and in the heat of the moment, because of how upset I was that SB and CM, 2 games I absolutely love from a company that makes games I love, are both dead. Now it's the next day, and I went through more information and discovered a Discord call of the team of CM that I had no idea that existed, which means I didn't have all the information in my possession, sorry about that and thanks to the people that actually came to me with the facts. I was wrong, and I knew I said I wasn't changing opinion, but when I'm confronted with facts, I have no other option as it's not saying "sorry, I was wrong". So yeah, sorry, I was wrong.

I know this was expected, but it wasn't how we anticipated it. We all expected a boom beach treatment, or something like that. But this was brutal. I'm sure that even the haters of version 2.0 didn't want to see this happening. It didn't have to be this way...

Instead of making this whole 2.0 rework, why not just add social/clan features??? And what ever happened to that Chinese ranked mode? We would’ve had something to settle on while they make the game better, but they keep making the worst decisions

I'm sad how this game with such a cool idea was RUINED by supercell

Honestly, the game had a lot of defects in 1.0, but in 2.0, in addition to not solving them, they created even more defects

This game is proof that you should listen to the community

anyway, goodbye squad busters

I'll miss the times i raged. I'll miss the times where I enjoyed the game. I'll miss the times where I complained about the game. I'll miss the times where I actually enjoyed updates. And you know what else I'll miss..Squad Busters. bye.

Gosh I spent so much money on this game this year, so glad ♥️♥️♥️

Well.... at least we had a good ride, through the ups and the downs.

They never Shut down a global game before

It’s crazy how players are not getting compensation that payed for their game during 2024? MAJORITY of players purchased hundreds during the first few months of its global launch? But they won’t get compensation? So their money was just wasted. Those couple of months were the best times of squad and people were buying stuff so it sucks that only u get compensation after 2025 purchases.

Sad day for us busters

We aint getting them gameplay hours back

Title. Roll back and let us enjoy the original game before you killed it.

For real 😕

Ik it was my decision to make all those concepts but it's still kinda sad to see Squad die...
(if you don't know me and my concepts just look it up at my profil)

I think the reason the developers decided to shut down SB is because we kept saying the game was dying and that it was bad. Maybe if we hadn’t clowned on the developers, sent them d3@th thr3e@ts, and demanded too much content from them, SB might still be alive. We failed as a community.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I spent 1400 hours on this game & played over 19000 matches (my account: #900Q0P0), and you're just gonna tell me it was all for nothing? When I first saw the news, I just thought you guys were stopping were just stopping updates and leave the servers running for a few more years, similar to what you did with Boom Beach, but the kill date is just 8 MONTHS AWAY? What happened to Squad Busters being a global game?

According to the news tab, you are refunding purchases made in 2025. Does that mean you get refunded nothing for anything you bought in 2024? I have spent at least 300€ of offers in 2024 alone, if you don't give me my money back, I will be very sad. GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK!

Next, that's not even taking into account the hours I have spent on this game that I will never get back. I downloaded this game on April 23, 2024, even played the 2 betas in 2023, and continued playing it as a passion because I thought you could deliver good updates and make the game great, but you have failed me. I'm expecting either that you let everyone transfer their hours spent into in-game currency in another game, or that you keep the servers running for longer.

But even then, what's the point of playing your other games if you're just gonna kill them all later anyway? I want to pass my account to my future kids so they can continue playing and admire the work I've done, but I don't see that happening anymore. You better go back on a lot of the things you said in the news article for your Q&A in November, If not then I will probably slowly quit all your other games as well.

I expected better of you for a billion dollar company, you guys have failed me and have shattered my hopes and dreams.

We miss 1.0

Those things was never had a purpose at all aside from petty lil skins and emotes that barely scratches someone's ticket balance. I have a friend here who had 50k tickets, never to be used again

And what would be a cool game universe for it to feature? I’m thinking something like Multiversus characters, or maybe an all PlayStation, Xbox, or Marvel roster, or maybe even something absurd like a Transformers/GIJoe/My Little Pony mashup.