Gaming as service article on Kotaku

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An interesting article exploring how games like LoL and World of Tanks have changed how games are being designed and delivered.

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Wonder if any of it could be applied to our lovely game?

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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/feature/a574215/whats-the-future-for-company-of-heroes-2-after-western-front-armies.html

"Games as service keeps the community engaged, but also the team - the team's excited about getting stuff out there."

As a result there will be "smaller pieces of content" releasing more frequently, and "more communication" from the studio in a bid to keep the community engaged.

"Part of having the game as a service is that we're really embracing it to be agile and flexible in how you develop," said Duffy.

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It's a good article, as a player of both LoL and WoT not to mention the long awaited WOW (world of warships, not word of warcraft).

Unfortunately I don't think CoH as a game could ever fit into that niche. But Relic itself sure could learn a thing or two from both Riot and Wargaming, not to mention just about every developer out there could learn a thing or two from Blizzard.

Games are changing this is true but CoH is far from being in the category of 'service' games. Though I do believe they fit into what blizzard classifies as 'familial'. We can only hope Relic/SEGA have something up their sleeves to keep up with the way the industry is changing.

EDIT: just noticed that this also applies to the article nigo posted.

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I literally just posted this on the Angry Bears facebook group with the tag line "The people at Relic could learn a thing or two from this" (or Whoever is controlling the NDA's/lack of Info coming out).

CoH2 is no longer just a "Product" to ship, it's stuck, it has a community (a small one but still), if they want to seriously make this an Esport they need to look at this game as a service and us not just as walking money piles.

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19 Jan 2015, 11:13 AMMirage357

It's a good article, as a player of both LoL and WoT not to mention the long awaited WOW (world of warships, not word of warcraft).

Unfortunately I don't think CoH as a game could ever fit into that niche. But Relic itself sure could learn a thing or two from both Riot and Wargaming, not to mention just about every developer out there could learn a thing or two from Blizzard.

Games are changing this is true but CoH is far from being in the category of 'service' games. Though I do believe they fit into what blizzard classifies as 'familial'. We can only hope Relic/SEGA have something up their sleeves to keep up with the way the industry is changing.

EDIT: just noticed that this also applies to the article nigo posted.

I think you're right but I don't think it can't be done with an RTS like COH2, maybe not to the same depth but similar.