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So what is your idea for preserving the playerbase and 'preventing' them from leaving and losing interest (aside from chaining them down)?

Chaining down sounds pretty good

I think if it's retention with Coh2 we are talking about then it's events. I hate to say it, but e-sports counts. If we have something to rally around and gather for, then the game feels alive regardless minimal new content released (maps mainly). Personally I would so totally buy new missions like Case Blue and try to get the achievements for those. Same as e-sports, I think holiday events like Make War Not Love are great. It's ok for the game to be silly for a few days or so. I remember Killing Floor specimens got Santa costumes during Christmas time and that gave this "we are still here and love our game" feeling from developers. And that's all it takes really to keep CoH2 running among fans.

Eventually though, I want CoH3. And listen, it should not be too different. Just fine tune and fix stuff up. Keep most/all units and factions and commanders and maps and work on what needs work for that ultimate perfection. Immersion is key.

-optimization for the game to run great while looking great.
-even if it does require ultimate high end graphics card: make artillery smoke and hits shine again with the awesome spray of dirt and impact like it did once upon a time.
-bring more sound files back
-fixing all the bugs and glitches known.
-hero units like COHO had
-a cooler ingame chat with more stuff so you can stay in the game and socialice some between games
-bring back cold tech in auto-match, Rostov and winter maps with water/ice


Such game would be the ultimate game. The ultimate.

You are going the wrong way with this f2p madness. Other than that it looks all right.

Yes the game has been on sales for dirt cheap. The people who were interested in it have had plenty of cheap chances to try it. The crowd did not stay because it's not their cup of tea. F2P will not cure this in any way. It will just depreciate the value of the game saying to the world that it's worth nothing so we will charge nothing. And we all know that can't be farther from the truth. Majority eats McDonalds even though it's fairly rubbish food, and they play simple pew pew games for or the same reason.

They hide "stars" from faceplates.
Good luck having a proper rank show up prior to starting a game.

For good reason. Some people alt F4 seeing that the opponents share clan tags. That's how weak and easily intimidated some are.

Edit: oh own troops. Well.

Thanks.
But what infantry has further sight range than snipers then? If nobody has it then anyone will be suppressed and have to retreat. So nobody can spot without having to retreat pretty soon and mortar is only solid counter. But then again, you can't be sure if there is an hmg there anymore since you don't have sight range without having to retreat. Such bullshit that is.