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Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2022, 12:22 PMHannibal

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Replying only to the points I disagree with.

I play HOI4 and I find it enjoyable even without DLC. The DLCs themselves often have even bad reviews and are considered optional. While the Paradox DLC flood pisses me off, at least they have a decent policy of introducing features for everyone and not splitting the player base.
The point about SP focus is true though.

Paradox is the single worst developer right now due to their dlc policy. Their games are literally unplayable without spending an additional 200$ on DLCs, and you saying that you personally enjoy them just makes me understand that you belong at a minority of players. At any rate, PDX is the worst example to follow I think we can agree on that.

I know both concepts decently enough.
Again, we can find plenty of examples for both sides. The issue is that most F2P games that finance themselves via cosmetics have some central character for identification of the player. This makes the player's buy cosmetics.
CoH does not have that, or maybe I am just too old to want to make my tanks or whatnot "look cool". But if the tone of the game is supposed to be dark and gritty, you can't go crazy with cosmetics.

You are right and that is true. I also don't really enjoy it. However, would I pay this price in order to have a playerbase 3-4x than the current one? Absolutely.

Everything but childish. I don't know about the other games, but CSGO had and still has large issues with cheaters. Just check out the Steam reviews, you'll still find plenty of people complain about cheaters and smurfs.

You've previously made the point that CoH2 and CoH3 are not backed by huge companies and have limited resources. Apparently even the giants in your cited games don't manage to filter their community properly.

It is obvious that if your only repercussion is the need to create a new throw-away email address and make a new Steam account, cheaters and other highly toxic people will never get filtered out and have it easier to cycle back into the game.

Maybe you didn't get what I said. I never said about eradicating hackers and smurfs and whatnot that's humanly impossible. I am just stating a simple fact: networks handling 50-60x COH2's traffic are better at staying updated and keeping the community as safe and fair as it gets than Relic's handling (who are also putting a 60$ pricetag on it). Obviously all games have hackers and are generally unfair, but I would bet a lot of money on finding a way more fun game today on CSGO and LOL rather than COH2.

And again let's make the economic argument: if everyone else is doing it, are they idiots while they make so much money or are we smart because we don't evolve with the times?

It's not even proven that those games compete with the CoH franchise. The games you cite are Mobas, not RTS. I love RTS, but would never touch Mobas. Am I representative? Probably not. Did you show any data or at least game dev statements that those games compete? Also no.
These are different types of games and they likely cater to different audiences.

Sure I do not have such statistics as that's not my job to find out. I am just talking of my experience and feelings. I am just saying that a huge market goes untapped by a game in 2022 staying behind a 60$ pricetag especially if it's by a developer like relic who, let's be real here, is not what it once was.

How did you come to that conclusion? There are so many huge AAA franchises (BF, COD, AS just to name a few) that charge 60-80 bucks per game plus nonsensical DLC or season passes and release games on an annual level, and people keep buying it.

Even AAA games today stay on the 60-80$ price tag for maybe 2 weeks in order for the company to have a cash stimulus. After that they immediately cut the price down and load up on the multiplayer dlcs. I am talking exclusively about MP games ofcourse.

On a general note, thanks for the kind conversation. You are a good mod.

Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2022, 08:39 AMFelixTHM

I've already destroyed your intellectually invalid arguments completely about 250 posts ago. I insult you because you deserve it, because you are dishonest and despicable in using false information.

Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2022, 23:36 PMHannibal

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There's AoE2 that has about 20k players if I remember correctly (only the DE edition) and many Paradox titles have even gained or at the very least retained a ton of players over the years.

Similar situation with Civilization (heck, even Civ4 is gaining players albeit at a very low player count).

I personally am not a fan of F2P titles. They often water down the content and need to refinance themselves by continuous addition of content that often comes out in a shitty state. Not saying this has not happened with CoH2 as well, but for F2P games it is almost a given.

As others said, they also introduce issues regarding smurfs and cheaters.

I am happy about every game that does not work with quick rewards, loot crates and other bullshit to keep kids playing it.

I am actually happy to shell out money if I get a decently made game. Rough around the edges for sure, but I am happy to accept that if the gameplay is right.

Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2022, 17:07 PMKatukov

shouldve gone x4 ppsh cons if one wanted cheap infantry

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2022, 18:09 PMdonofsandiego

That's gonna be a hard "cap" from me, my friend.



Oh yes, my favorite "tank doesn't understand what attack move means" lmao. I just end up hitting stop all the time because tank commanders don't understand what max range means.