Proximity between streamers and Relic development team

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 22:15 PMLongshot_Cobra

Is it really normal all that close relation the devs keep with the best players and broadcasters?
Or am I the only one striked by how close they are between each other?

I update the game just recently, I get in, and what do I see?
Helping Hans on the front page, this is joke lol?

Do you realize how influent they are on choices they keep doing to balance the game so far?
Imperial Dane himself is a moderator on their forums.
Helping Hans get to be on first page of the game.

If I'm not mistaken, they let one of them also write up a guide for beginners, that they link to in the game ?

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 22:19 PMKatitof

You do realize that most competitive games reach to top players for feedback, ideas and opinions as well, right?

And featuring players isn't exactly a new thing either in competitive gaming.

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 22:20 PMTiger Baron

If you don't agree with the balance just make your own balance in a mod, if it's not about that then I don't know, we're mere mortals to them, un-important, those YouTubers and broadcasters are the ones fetching people to the game for them, free advertising you may call it. While the loyal fans that have stuck with the game even unwillingly during the harshest of times of theirs games are down in the mud, for instance I've been crashing ever since the vet patch and every time I try to contact them about it there's no reply or it's very late or it's very generic, like have you tried updating your drivers or checking the game's cache. I've sent over 30 bug splat reports and I can't even access their bugged website forums lol.

So no, in a few words, this is not a joke sadly, it's the real world with which we must learn to deal with, that we are un-important, just another money bag down for the count, that's it, that's all of it.

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 22:22 PMLongshot_Cobra

Why not ask the mid ones? the ones that play casually and competitively at a minimum degree?
Since these are the majority.

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 22:22 PMLongshot_Cobra

Why not ask the mid ones? the ones that play casually and competitively at a minimum degree?
Since these are the majority.

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 22:44 PMWaegukin

Because they don't know what they're talking about. Go check the steam or Relic's official forums, they're full of balance suggestions from these kinds of players. A quick scan reveals that, according to them, Sturmtiger should have B4 range, another Allied faction is needed (along with a gem about SU-85 and Cons being OP), USF Airborne Rocket strafe OP and so on.

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 22:15 PMLongshot_Cobra

Is it really normal all that close relation the devs keep with the best players and broadcasters?
Or am I the only one striked by how close they are between each other?

I update the game just recently, I get in, and what do I see?
Helping Hans on the front page, this is joke lol?

Do you realize how influent they are on choices they keep doing to balance the game so far?
Imperial Dane himself is a moderator on their forums.
Helping Hans get to be on first page of the game.

If I'm not mistaken, they let one of them also write up a guide for beginners, that they link to in the game ?

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 23:10 PMDullahan

It's a good thing as long as certain players don't get their ear more than the rest. (Which does tend to happen, honestly.)

There have been a lot of changes to CoH2 that I really dislike thanks to this sort of feedback, but if most people like it better than I guess I'll be the grumpy odd man out.

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 22:15 PMLongshot_Cobra

Is it really normal all that close relation the devs keep with the best players and broadcasters?
Or am I the only one striked by how close they are between each other?

I update the game just recently, I get in, and what do I see?
Helping Hans on the front page, this is joke lol?

Do you realize how influent they are on choices they keep doing to balance the game so far?
Imperial Dane himself is a moderator on their forums.
Helping Hans get to be on first page of the game.

If I'm not mistaken, they let one of them also write up a guide for beginners, that they link to in the game ?

Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 23:27 PMVon Kluge

For those whose iq is smaller than my shoe size, this was sarcasm