There are a few factors that made CoC quite unsuccessful. STS has already established dominion on the mobile MMORPG market, and when game companies try to bleed into a new style of gameplay, it usually ends in failure. STS has drawn players who favor RPG's, not MOBA's. Also, the release of CoC came just a month or two after Vainglory (which had already been released on iOS a year prior) ported to android, so Super Evil MC had already claimed the [android] mobile MOBA market.
So you can't compare the transition from AL to CoC, to one of AL to a new MMORPG. AL did not grow in the way that it needed to, and so a fresh start in a new MMO would definitely be amazing, before the remaining fanbase moves onto a different game released by another company. (Many have already transitioned to Crusaders of Light)
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