You are saying that "playing on low and mid settings" is good for ESL or for streaming and stuff?
You are saying that the game runs fine even that there are sooooooooooo many people, with rigs that cost over 1000-1500 Euros, that say that the FPS are very low?
If you are a dedicaded COH2 player (which i don't doubt that you are), you should know that what 90% of the posters in this thread say its true. And many of us are saying this since release and Relic knows it too. For gods sake, which modern game does not support SLI/CF? Doe to "Coldtech" is one of the excuses from Relic.
Anyway, in my country there is a saying, where there is smoke, there is fire.
Examples:
Here...
and here...
last one.
I didn't say that there is no glitch or hiccup related to performances and/or network in COH2. I just say that i think they are not game breaking. I just play 6-8 4vs4 games a day and find that none of those games weren't affected enough to talk about it. Maybe i'm lucky.
If the fanbase is to diminish then they will be no performance optimizations and the game will fall into oblivion. I honestly think that the performances on middle rigs are not that bad and don't really impact the fanbase. People who really like games with nice graphics don't play COH2. It's rather intellectual who like content more that play the game. (i admit the late 1 or 2 freezing issue is quite annoying).
Thanks.