And he is right. Not everybody here is an elitis ofc, but coh2.org is the ultimate whining circlejerk club, where over 90% of posts can be put into 1 of 4 categories: "DLC sucks", "This is OP", "This is UP" and my favourite "Why is this not another vCoH? Make this another vCoH!".
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1. A lot of posts here have been more constructive than you think. A lot of people here actually want coh2 to be awesome and even better than coh1. And segregating the multiplayer community by DLCs is not the way to go so I can see why people are upset about this. I mean, how many paid games have this system where it drastically affects performance of multiplayer?
2. I've seen staff here go, "okay someone post Nazi here, therefore discredit entire post" despite the fact that there was some very constructive posts entirely, as if they want to ignore tips/serious critism.
3. Not only ignoring but also launching ad-hominem attacks on your long term community who have put so much effort in the game (which a lot of the ppl on coh2.org)is definitely the way to go to destroy communities and turn this game into something no-one sees. I mean, the way I got into COH1 was through casters on youtube. Now tell me, apart from TFN and Imperial Dane (who isn't part of the coh2.org community), who actually casts?
4. If you have noticed, a lot of the high level players from COH1 are actually not posting a lot in here (that is until the last week or two or so after that thread asking what Pros think). For that matter, not a lot of the high level players in COH2 post here either. What you get in the end is a group of moderate level players (myself included) with not too much authority in terms of strategic ideas or anything who frequent these forums thinking we understand the game completely (I make this mistake myself as well) and with such arrogance, it can become a circlejerk of whining at that point. Ultimately, I've seen opinions change on things like rushing T-70s used to be thought of as OP, now its seen as reasonably balanced (of course, that's until Sov Industry but still)
So can this community be improved? Yes. Should it be sidelined like Relic wants to do? Certainly not.
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