u/TennisWilling936

I said it, they just lost 70 billion USD

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Just remember that at global launch (March 2, 2016), the chances of you getting a single copy of either Ice Wizard or Princess was 12.8% at Arena 7 (Royal Arena) from a Super Magical Chest, which only appeared every 500 chests in the now-removed chest cycle.

Otherwise, you would have to spend 4600 gems (~40.00 USD back then) for one in the shop, and it still wasn't guaranteed for you to obtain a Legendary.

With Level 16 today, you would need 68 cards to max out one Legendary card. But with Legendary cards only having 6 levels back then and also level scaling being different, you needed 86 cards to max out one Legendary card.

If you were to gem your way to Level 6 for a Legendary on March 2, 2016, let's say that you only bought the $99.99 USD gem packs. This meant that $1.00 USD was worth 140 gems, meaning a Super Magical Chest that was worth 4600 gems was worth $32.86 USD on that day.

Combine that with a 12.8% chance of obtaining a Legendary at Arena 7, you would have to spend on average $256.70 USD for a single Legendary card. To get 86 Legendaries, you would have to spend on average $22,075.89 USD back then to max out an Ice Wizard or Princess, and this was assuming you got the same Legendary card 86 times in a row. But realistically, even if you were to spend $22,075.89 USD on a bunch of Super Magical Chests back then, you would cycle between the Ice Wizard and the Princess, meaning you wouldn't max out either and you would need to spend even more money.

(Yes, I know this is from a Gratz YT video from 2022, but there are still millions out who think Clash Royale only became P2W later, this isn't true. It always has been P2W, but because Legendaries as well as Epics were so much harder to obtain in Early 2016, it felt like the game was balanced)

Cough cough L87, you are the worst successor to a GM engine ever, the L86, which was a Gen V LT1 for trucks from 2014-2018