Profile of Cadoc

8/10 very solid troll

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You know, it's fantastic that we have somebody who cares communicate with us, it really is. I think most people appreciate your input. The issue is with general policy at Relic. Things have changed since Company of Heroes 1 came out. In most of my favourite gaming communities, I can expect developers to regularly address the customers' concerns, to engage with them on the forums, to publish roadmaps and have open betas. The Kicksters and Early Access titles especially have turned up the idea of communicating with the playerbase to 11. If 95% of what we see from Relic is "sorry guys, we can't talk about that yet" or something else along those lines, that does not feel like communication - it feels like token attempt at communication to get those pesky, whining gamers to shut up.

It's of course ridiculous to suggest the devs don't care, and there have been improvements (like your presence and improved patch notes), but there remains the fact that the community doesn't have a clue where the game is heading and many people, including myself, are finding it hard to understand why Relic isn't as open and communicative as many other devs. I understand there is probably very little you can do about this personally, but I hope that you see that as whiny as we can be, those complaints aren't without merit.

Finally CoH2 can into esports.

I just hope both Relic and SEGA have learned something from this fun but flawed game. If CoH3 has a similar release - with a lot of negative hype because of shitty DLC policy and poor communication - it will probably mean the end of the franchise.

Inverse, you're kinda pointlessly snarky, I was simply asking you a question. Hell, half of your examples don't even have anything to do with sync hacking (Ao2 HD sync errors were caused because the game allowed two people with different versions of the game to connect to the same lobby) and in no game was the issue as widespread as in CoH2.

It's interesting to see SC2 had that issue as well. I suppose it never became nearly as widespread because there are actual consequences to being caught cheating in that game, and losing your ranking is worse than death to some of my fellow Starcraft nerds