COH 1 sold a lot more copies than COH 2 did. The first game won every game of the year award out there it seems while the 2nd one was a technical mess at launch and did a lot of things worse. There are a lot of latent COH1 fans that don't like COH 2 which is why you see so many detractors of this game. A LOT of the old fanbase simply despise the new game. The interface, the performance, and the design decisions in having so many dlc commanders and warspoils aren't necessarily things that the original fanbase liked about the game.
This game reminds me of Evolve. It was a good game but it died because the devs and company were too greedy. Evolve was like COH2, asking for full 60 dollar price tag on release, and on top of that "new content" DlCs. Like Evolve you have to buy DLCs on top of the full game to be competitive. You dont "need" commanders like CAS, Lightning war, Elite troops etc etc, to play the game
but you have to get them to be competitive.
Evolve wasnt a bad game, but its dead now, I think Coh2 should have died too, but there is no competition in the cinimatic WWII RTS market. Yeah I hate this game, but what the garden am i suppose to play now? Coh1 is better, but its also history.
Ever since opposing fronts, Relic has been trying (and failing comically hard) to weave micro transactions and dlc into the core gameplay. Coh2, warspoils, the commander system, this was an another experimental failure like COH online. (I mean failure loosely, people like us are still here and the game didn't get shut down)
The belief that the "commander system" brings more variety or tactical choice into this game is wrong. There are fewer then 4 viable commanders for each faction. This is basically exactly like the doctrine system from coh1 except we have to pay 2.99+ USD to unlock a "doctrine'. Like what happened in Evolve when people were asked to fork over for "new" characters, lots of people left.
I think Relic should make this game free to play, throw one giant ass balancing patch,finish DoW III and start on Coh3
also please don't fuck up DoW III with stupid ideas pls