Make Multiplayer COH3 free to play to save the franchise.

Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2022, 01:01 AMDonnieChan

no thx, i don't want unlimited smurfs and hackers in coh3

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2022, 21:56 PMSolar.

No dealing with cheaters is difficult enough for massive companies like valve and riot, if coh goes f2p that just means cheaters don't have to risk anything if they get caught. I still get regular games in coh2 for 2v2 and was doing okay at getting 1v1's recently and coh2 is almost 9 years old. Most dedicated or interested players will buy coh3 at full price but they'll eventually be sales or the price will drop for late adopters.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 01:39 AMaerafield

Would love to see the business model from e. g. Halo: Infinite in CoH3. Multiplayer is free, but you have to pay for the Campaign/Singleplayer content and for battlepass

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 06:49 AMEsxile

Multiplayer could have some assets free to play like custom games, this could serve as demo for new players willing to give a try, obviously they could also be limited in their parameters like in number of game played per day, maps or cosmetics available. The rest could then be unlocked by paying the game/suscription.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 13:35 PMOziligath

As an player I like the idea of coh3 having F2P MP. Let's face it, basedsecretary said it, nobody will bought 60$ for a strategy game and less for a niche one that is coh. About the cheater problem, I do play a lot of csgo and pubg and one way to deal with cheaters is to make the ranked mode wich are the ones where cheating make sens atteignable at a certain lvl. EG if coh2 went free for MP people would have to be like rank 50 before having the possibility of ranked matches. And from py personnal experience, I have had very few games paired with cheaters. So I like the idea of free MP.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 14:14 PMCrecer13

Wrong, I'll buy the game. But if it will be interesting to me. Whether the game is FTP, but it will be the same USA and Britain against Germany for the third time. This is not interesting to me, FTP does not make the game more interesting and attractive. If a person doesn't like this setting and the FTP mechanics won't attract people to the game. CoH is a niche game with a stable fanbase. The same games include Man of War.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 14:14 PMCrecer13

Wrong, I'll buy the game. But if it will be interesting to me. Whether the game is FTP, but it will be the same USA and Britain against Germany for the third time. This is not interesting to me, FTP does not make the game more interesting and attractive. If a person doesn't like this setting and the FTP mechanics won't attract people to the game. CoH is a niche game with a stable fanbase. The same games include Man of War.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 14:18 PMBasedSecretary

This is your personal preference and it is duly respected. That does not go for everyone though.

Comparing COH to Man of War is basically giving it a death sentece seeing that the last time Man of War had 1k players was 1500 years ago. That I disagree with.

It's 2022. Nobody takes RTS seriously anymore and it's due to this mindset that this happens.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 14:47 PMCrecer13

Companies don't take AAA seriously. As shown online Age of Empire 2 and 4 (about 40,000 picks per day online) Warhammer Total War 3. Strategy games buy and play. This is not beneficial for AAA companies and publications that want millions and millions of dollars by selling the game service and giving some skins. RTS is not suitable for this model.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 16:47 PMGrim

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Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 16:52 PMBasedSecretary

Nice attempt at sarcasm. Enjoy playing a game with max 1k players daily.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 17:45 PMCrecer13

FTP does not automatically make the game popular and with great online. Man of War 2: Arena is an attempt at FTP which failed because the FTP mechanics are not suitable for RTS. And the old Man of War 2 still has stable online.

Stop fixing what isn't broken.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 13:06 PMBasedSecretary

Perfect.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 16:52 PMBasedSecretary

Nice attempt at sarcasm. Enjoy playing a game with max 1k players daily.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 18:16 PMBasedSecretary

If you do not consider the current abysmal playerbase for COH2 a problem, then with all due respect I cannot discuss this further with you.

Jump back to quoted post8 Mar 2022, 17:45 PMCrecer13

FTP does not automatically make the game popular and with great online. Man of War 2: Arena is an attempt at FTP which failed because the FTP mechanics are not suitable for RTS. And the old Man of War 2 still has stable online.

Stop fixing what isn't broken.