Supercell used 2 super known tactics for soft launch
1- Create mystery and curiosity with invite only play, 2- Picked a popular social platform to announce it.
1-> Invite only strategy worked because: Well, they are Supercell… There are no other big western mobile mmorpg that can appeal to younger generation Z and Alpha.
2-> Linkedin Marketing Growth Hack: Linkedin notifies everyone on job changes, Many Supercell employees just did that.. Linkedin has the most potential of paying players.
So thats their soft launch strategy in a nutshell. And in my opinion, it’s not perfect, but it’s DIFFERENT.
Not many companies can pull that off.
Notify potential paying players: –> game industry audience <– Let them know their friends and family who are also Gen Z and Gen Alpha And potentially paying players as well..
As far as I know, there is no paid UA so far and And this tactic got them over 2.7M player. Well done.
Imagine an actual campaign with polished game content and monetization.