Paid commanders go free, then become FABULOUS

So, looking at how other games handle this: Make the paid commanders all free.

And instead, anyone who bought, or buys, the commanders instead get extra fabulous graphics on those commanders' unique abilities.

Bear with me here.

For example, the Elite Troops commander. If you play with the free version, your troops come out looking normal, and the Tiger Ace (balance arguments aside) looks like the crappy weird yellow gold skin it has now. But, if you use the paid version, every time you buy vet for an infantry unit, it becomes an extra special version of that infantry skin (still historically accurate though), and the Tiger Ace model looks like an awesome war weathered fighting machine, pock marked with deflected shell impacts, with an awesome looking monocle wearing tank commander standing up out of the hatch.

AGrens get an awesome skin festooned with SMG mag pouches and grenades.

And the list goes on.

There's real, significant evidence from many, many games out there now that fabulous cosmetic DLC is something that people really do pay for, and pay for quite a bit.

Unfortunately, you can't just jump to that model straight now that some commanders were sold to paying customers.

And there's more incentive to properly balance and bug test these commanders since the whole player base will have them.

i expect at the end of dlcs, a coh 2 premium edition, which is like battlefield premium.

Sounds like a good idea to me even if I got all DLC commanders, but then again Im not sentimental about my money. There are others who very well will be upset since they paid (alot) for the units and abilities. It will be hard for relic to get players to pay for content since players will know that any content bought might end up free. Im not sure it will drive away more players than it might win back. However im sure experimenting with this is not a good idea the moment, atleast not in relics/segas eyes. Maybe next summer when the game is atleast a year old, or wait till the specific commanders are a year old.