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Would be cool.

This is what would make CoH a really good game:
- bug fix (obvious)
- add more good & balanced maps
- small balance adjustments
- OF Faction re design (PE is more or less ok but the british.. just boring to play and to play against)

Yup, also optionally redesign of a couple of TOV units.


Those are pretty straight forward obvious changes, for a 'HD' version.

It's never too late.

No, but it might be too soon.

I think they would have to wait a year (maybe even 2) to have an optimal revival. They need to sell COH2 (western fronts) first in the next couple of months.
So only after that they can start business on COH HD. (sadly enough)

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And after that: they can start develop their next expansion for COH2.
Or even start developing COH3 althought if that ever happens, that might not be until 2020.

HD not in the strict sense of the word. HD means bug fix and maybe balance changes. Not new Graphics.

Well you could throw in a couple of maps, and maybe change the automatch system more like the COHO/COH2 one...


What COH HD would really mean is: An incentive for Relic to invest in vCOH.

- Potential turnover is somewhere between decent and very good: tons of players miss old active vCOH, this could be a way to bring that back. (+ New players, who don't want to buy an 8 year old game, might buy this 'new shiny' version.) But Relic seriously needs to consider doing marketing outside the already existing community.

- Developing costs (in terms of manpower, time, money) could be kept to a minimum. Because the game doesn't require big changes.

- Maintenance costs:
* Patching: depends on amount/complexity of bugs mostly,
balance patching shouldn't cost more than a couple of hours / days mostly work. (See balance patch 2.602 where most of the community did the work and only 1 awesome dude at Relic.) + Isn't patching a game through Steam an easy/cheap way of doing it?
* Servers: I don't know if the current servers of Smoking Gun could be used or if they would have to hire/buy new ones. This is probably the biggest cost they'd have to take into account.

- This will bring positive publicity for COH-franchise, Relic and Sega.

Conclusion:
For Relic it's an opportunity for some quick cash. (Short-term profits.) And the players will be happy. It's a Win-Win situation.

Possible drawback: They'd have to keep running the old servers and wait for them to bleed out completely (we're getting closer to that point though.) This might cause a small disparity at first.


PS: Good to hear from you Noun. My apologies, i'll withdraw my previous statement.

Everybody would like if they kept updating COH.

However, they are letting the game die out in favor of their Western Fronts expansion. They are trying to lure the old vCoh fans to COH 2 with this expansion because it really looks like vCoh a lot more. But yet it's still far from the same.

Chances for a vCoh update are very slim I'm afraid.