You have voted, and you have decided on the future of the game!

Of course, some details still need to be discussed, but many important decisions have been clearly determined by the vote.

You can also view the results ‘directly from the Ludetis database’ with audio commentary on YouTube. Here, I summarise the most important results in writing for you to read.

The Titans: Most votes were for ‘okay, but far too expensive’, followed by ‘don’t like them’. → We will therefore first try to find a way to offer Titans at a lower price, e.g. older ones that don’t stay in the team for as long. At a later date, we will ask again whether the Titans should stay or be removed completely.

The limited specialists: By far the most votes were for ‘Good, but better balance in future.’ → We know that the teamplayer crossing specialist was too strong, and have been working on improving the balance since then. Limited specialists should and may be slightly better than existing specialists, but not so strong that they dominate the entire KiO universe.

Clan Championship: There is a narrow majority of 60:52 votes in favour of continuing the current mode with the final tournament. However, 59 votes were also cast for ‘I don’t care.’ This shows that the CM is by no means the most important thing for all players. It may be helpful to keep this in mind more often. → So we are not changing anything about the CM for the time being.

What new features would you like to see? By a considerable margin, most votes were for ‘even more interesting medals’, ‘new, interesting trainer foxes’ and ‘improve own tournaments’. → We will now develop these ideas in detail and will certainly introduce the first new medals into the game in the big autumn update, for example.

Opponents‘ line-ups visible: A large majority of 91:46 votes believe that things are fine as they are → so they will remain that way.

Multiple teams per player: A large majority of 94 votes voted for ‘should be completely banned’. Obviously, the majority feel that multi-accounts are fundamentally unfair, even if they do not violate the rules. → We will change the rules accordingly. However, to be on the safe side, we would like to point out that we will not completely prevent multiple teams from playing on the same Wi-Fi/in the same household for technical reasons. Friends, family, siblings and children are of course still allowed to play.

Feeling comfortable in the community: 94 votes were cast in favour of ‘yes’ as opposed to “no”, with ‘don’t know or sometimes yes, sometimes no’ receiving 62 votes. → This does not result in any direct changes, but we are pleased with the result and will endeavour to make your experience in the game even more enjoyable. We welcome specific suggestions by email to Support.

Clan Championship Medal: As you know, we disabled this medal, along with a few others, without asking because of false incentives. Due to a number of complaints, we have now resubmitted the question in order to legitimise the decision retrospectively, so to speak. This worked, as a majority of 55:48 votes supported our decision – and most (69) didn’t even care → The medal remains disabled.

Hot Summer Cup: With 72:22 votes for ‘good, it was fun’, we can draw a positive conclusion. → We will continue to strive to offer interesting special promotions for holidays and vacations.

In-game poll: With 146:1 votes, we have a very clear statement here. So it was worth the effort to integrate a tamper-proof voting system directly into the game. → We will continue to use it and even expand it so that we can also organise small prediction games, etc. in the future.

Large competitions alternating between tactical and weak tactical: Here we have a clear yes with 68:49! → So we will soon be offering the big Saturday tournaments alternately in the other game modes.

That concludes the big autumn survey – and we have a whole series of tasks ahead of us, some of which we will certainly implement in the big 2026 update. The update is planned for the end of November. We will keep you informed!

Thank you very much for participating in the survey. We value your opinion and respect your wishes – as far as possible, given that there are quite different preferences within our community. No one is excluded, but of course we cannot fulfil all wishes, especially if they are contradictory. But we will do our best!

On October 1, there will be a new limited specialist, namely the International Heading Specialist (IH). Like all “international” specialists, this player receives a strength bonus of +1 for each other country of origin among the players fielded. So he is strictly a better header, but cannot receive bonuses as extreme as the Teamplayer (before the correction). We are confident that the IK is a well-balanced and exciting new limited specialist.

Please always note the following at the end of each month:

The old limited specialist will no longer be available via exclusive scout discoveries from around 11:45 p.m. CEST, and please do not search for the new limited specialist with the scout before 12:30 a.m. CEST. We have created this “gap” to avoid any misunderstandings.

Similarly, to avoid misunderstandings, we will remove the September Season Pack from the shop well before midnight and unlock the October Season Pack (with the IH Specialist Training) late at night. We ask for your understanding that such a “gap in the offer” is necessary because there have been repeated time-consuming corrective measures when someone purchased shortly before or immediately after midnight and received the supposedly wrong content. We also don’t want anyone to stay up past midnight just for the game. The October pack will therefore only be available to everyone in the early hours of the morning from around 4 a.m., which should be enough to get you started on the new day’s games.

A small update will also be released in the next few days to fix a few display issues (in the magazine, profile, and menu bar).

As you know, there has been considerable resistance to the high bonuses that a team player flank god achieves in suitable formations (with a boost, e.g. strength 147). Even though it is only the TF that has such high values, this has a greater impact on the overall course of the game than we anticipated, which has led to considerable dissatisfaction.

Therefore, starting on Sunday (i.e. from the new season), the bonus for the teamplayer crossing limited specialists will be limited to a maximum of +12.

Managers who suffer disadvantages as a result of this change will receive compensation from the game management after individual consultation. Those affected are kindly requested to contact support by email.

In order to ensure the important limitation of availability in TF, it will remain the case until Sunday that they cannot be generated via exclusive scout discoveries (and purchased with rubies and K$).

We apologise for introducing an overly powerful game element. However, according to some feedback, previous limited specialists were too weak, so we wanted to change that – and ended up going too far. We will balance new game elements better in the future. In this context, you will also be able to express your opinion in the big survey starting at the end of the month.

A new update will be released at the end of the month. Here’s what’s new:

New limited specialist available from 1 September (as always, available via Scout or Special Training in the Season Pack): Teamplayer Crossing (TC). This is a crosssing specialig who, like the teamplayer, additionally receives a strength bonus per other player in the same team section (defence, midfield, offense). This makes him significantly better than the normal crossing specialist, but the bonus depends on the tactics: e.g. with 343 in defence or attack +8 (two additional players in the team section), with 541 a wing back TC even receives +16 (four additional defenders)! We are sure that this is an exciting new player who will be very useful in many formations.

Improved feedback: If you don’t get into a tournament or a player purchase or offer fails, you will now receive more meaningful messages, e.g. if the line-up for an U21 cup is invalid.

Improved spam protection: Starting with this update, you can only send an offer for a player to the same team every 12 hours. We have introduced this because some managers either have a rather poor short-term memory or tried to annoy their business partners with spam offers. There is, of course, one exception: if you receive a counter-offer, you can send another offer immediately. We are sure that this measure will be an improvement for managers.

Please note that there will be another update in September, which will see us integrate our own tamper-proof survey system into the game. This will then be used for the next major community survey, in which you will be able to rate the latest innovations and express your wishes for the future. If, apart from the obvious questions about the Clan Championship, the Titans and the limited specialists, you can think of any other questions that you think we should ask, please send us an email or contact one of the players in the development forum or one of the mentors (see help screen).

We hope you enjoy the new update!

As a result, some teams were unable to participate in their group tournaments at all (because they were stuck in other tournaments), while others were registered but were no longer active on the device when their tournament started, meaning they were unable to switch over and had no chance. For other teams, however, everything went normally (except for the long delay), meaning they fought, invested time, and thus qualified for the finals—or lost fair and square. Many teams invested many valuable items, such as protein boosts, before the supposed start of the group stage in order to be as well prepared as possible.

Unfortunately, for a long time we were also unsure how best to proceed under these circumstances. That’s why we initially announced a repeat, until we realized that this would only be fair if we reimbursed the exact value of the items invested, and that would have been an insurmountable manual effort given the 128 qualified participants. Incidentally, this also applied to the 55 teams that were unable to register in their groups; they would also have been entitled to a refund.

Therefore, after lengthy and controversial discussions with many justifiably angry players, we decided to skip the rest of the group stage and continue directly with the final on August 23.

However, there was initially a misunderstanding: some of the players involved in the discussion believed that EVERYONE – including teams that had played their respective group tournaments and been eliminated – should be eligible to participate in the final tournament. However, I think that would have been unfair to those teams that had qualified on merit – their performance and the items they had invested would then have been basically wasted, giving them good reason to demand a refund. At the same time, teams that had not invested much (except time) would have been qualified. So we would have been confronted with individual (and justified) refund claims again.

Knowing that no solution satisfactory to everyone is conceivable in the face of such a catastrophic crash, Ludetis has therefore decided on a compromise:

all remaining group access passes will be converted into final passes (i.e., all teams that were unable to participate in group tournaments are qualified for the final tournament). This has already been announced in the news for several days.

Teams that were registered for their group tournament but did not actively play can contact us and, after review, will also receive the final pass as compensation (this has already happened with four teams).

It was very difficult to come up with this solution, and we know that not everyone is happy with it. We can assure you that no one is more upset about the disappointing outcome than we are, because we bear the responsibility and want to offer you a great gaming experience, and unfortunately we did not succeed this time, resulting in justified complaints.

We therefore apologize profusely and promise that we will not only closely monitor the final tournament to resolve any issues immediately if necessary, but also that we will take appropriate action with a view to next year. In addition, there will be a special event with particularly generous rewards after the World Cup.

We wish all qualified teams an exciting final tournament on August 23!