CoH World Championship 2020 Confirmed for November!

Jump back to quoted post2 Sep 2020, 05:09 AMSturmtigerCobra

CoH2 going eSport?

This tournament money has less to do with CoH2 eSport and more to do with Sega's marketing budget (influencer marketing).
Relic is not a profitable studio without Microsoft money from AoE. That is just a fact.
Studio management hired 4 community managers for AoE4 while CoH+DoW game franchises have zero.


Relic management & self-preservation in a nutshell. Focusing on 'keeping the ship afloat' whatever the cost may be:


Relic employee review 2020:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Relic-Entertainment-Reviews-E533032.htm

This studio might end up losing both DoW + CoH IP but management don't seems to care because Microsoft got their back for whatever reasons that may be.
So how do Sega higher ups justify investing this tournament money into a 7 years old game and a studio with too much dead weight?.
2+2=4.

GCS2 Grand Final currently have 831.392 YouTube views which is more than most CoH trailers on Relic's own YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/CoHOfficial/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid

Report: EA Paid Ninja $1 Million To Play 'Apex Legends', Which Is Way Too Little:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2019/03/14/report-ea-paid-ninja-1-million-to-play-apex-legends-which-is-way-too-little/

Influencer marketing is the future of game marketing. If done right, influencers is the new access media that sell games.
Sega/Relic also tried this by hiring Geoff 'iNcontroL' Robinson (RIP) to play DoW3.




sources:
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/9-things-we-learned-from-the-2018-user-generated-content-ugc-report/513245/
https://www.tintup.com/blog/38-mind-blowing-stats-effectiveness-user-generated-content/

I'm happy Sega is investing in CoH's streaming community. But no, this is not CoH2 going eSport.

Stephen Quinn
@CBCStephenQuinn
8. sep.
Question: Is life going back to anything resembling normal for any of you today?
I'd love to know.
Thanks.

Quinn Duffy
@QuinnDuffy
God no. Our company isn't even contemplating going back to our lovely, brand new office until the New Year and maybe not even then. We're going to have to socially re-distance ourselves from grandparents until we see what happens at school. Sports? Who knows? School? Weird.

Jump back to quoted post10 Sep 2020, 04:38 AMSturmtigerCobra

FYI; According to Quinn Duffy Relic will be in lockdown until next year.

https://twitter.com/QuinnDuffy/status/1303353873910751238