No, but it might be too soon.
I think they would have to wait a year (maybe even 2) to have an optimal revival. They need to sell COH2 (western fronts) first in the next couple of months.
So only after that they can start business on COH HD. (sadly enough)
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And after that: they can start develop their next expansion for COH2.
Or even start developing COH3 althought if that ever happens, that might not be until 2020.
12ocky I agree with all of your posts... . Lot of games have been revived the past 1-2 years and released as an HD versions, I don't understand why not CoH.
I wish this new HD movement of old games, become too big in a few months then might be forced to follow the wave . |
Well you could throw in a couple of maps, and maybe change the automatch system more like the COHO/COH2 one...
What COH HD would really mean is: An incentive for Relic to invest in vCOH.
- Potential turnover is somewhere between decent and very good: tons of players miss old active vCOH, this could be a way to bring that back. (+ New players, who don't want to buy an 8 year old game, might buy this 'new shiny' version.) But Relic seriously needs to consider doing marketing outside the already existing community.
- Developing costs (in terms of manpower, time, money) could be kept to a minimum. Because the game doesn't require big changes.
- Maintenance costs:
* Patching: depends on amount/complexity of bugs mostly,
balance patching shouldn't cost more than a couple of hours / days mostly work. (See balance patch 2.602 where most of the community did the work and only 1 awesome dude at Relic.) + Isn't patching a game through Steam an easy/cheap way of doing it?
* Servers: I don't know if the current servers of Smoking Gun could be used or if they would have to hire/buy new ones. This is probably the biggest cost they'd have to take into account.
- This will bring positive publicity for COH-franchise, Relic and Sega.
Conclusion:
For Relic it's an opportunity for some quick cash. (Short-term profits.) And the players will be happy. It's a Win-Win situation.
Possible drawback: They'd have to keep running the old servers and wait for them to bleed out completely (we're getting closer to that point though.) This might cause a small disparity at first.
PS: Good to hear from you Noun. My apologies, i'll withdraw my previous statement.
I want to convince them, this game is not dead and can potentially flourish again if they pay the proper attention to it, with some changes.
It's never too late I'm seeing it die and I don't like it, they could probably make something about that. After all is a game of 2006 and people still playing it. I have played a lot of games and still I'm returning to the old CoH.
They don't have to see CoH as an competitor of CoH2 but as a base for all the things.
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Hi Noun it's good to have you back at least for some minutes! Are you in position to tell us what is going on? I mean is ANYTHING possible to happened further with CoH? Is there any straight answer to that? You know that a lot of people will pay for this if they had to. Please. |
a working DX11 would be nice. HD skins aswell, however as i said above only, if Smoking gun creates it.
Talking about Smoking gun and old fellas of CoH in my opinion the decline of CoH started when Josh Mosqueira as a designer left (don't know what exactly happened).As for a working DX11 I'm totally with you, though I still playing at high and not on ultra because the game if I remember correct keeps crashing with dx 10. It's a Good wish though. Fanatic as for that sense of HD we are talking about the same thing with different words, I agree. |
CoH will not be updated, and Relic or Sega will not respond to this topic.
I'm afraid you're right, this topic was created as a reminder to what they say.
I agree that CoH don't needs an HD graphics, we talk about a final update as they said they would. I have a feeling (i'm an optimistic in nature )that this post might help with this update. CoH has everyday almost 2700 players I can't believe that someone of them don't want the game to have a final patch.
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Was a wish, though I doubt if they know that with this buy-win commander thing there is no distance left to run. |
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It's sooo sad. If I had the money I would bought the rights of COH just to show them how the work is done. I would add an extra command tree to each faction some extra units to each and extra automatch maps. Some balance to units and finally Africa as a new campaign. Also new dx 11 and bye bye COH2. |
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12ocky you are so right! I totally agree with you, I don't know if you notice this but they have also implement the same voice acting to same units, it's like COH, just to emphasize your opinion. Never the less they have give us a promise. I don't want to act like a child that my dad has promised me something but at least we deserve an answer. I have bought original COH, Opposite Fronts ,Tales Of Valor, Anthology(was an offer and on DVD and not CD) and finally COH2,well if that is not considered as a support move then I don't know...The whole idea of luring people from original game to COH2 is an even more sneaky move. If my favorite game is about to die then I want to die with dignity, not to left it rotten and gradually die pretending they did their best, because they didn't. |
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Hi Inverse, and thanks for answering.
I would agree with you if that was totally true. If so then which is the max level with factions? level 14?? The game is still full of bugs.
I'm asking them to make what they promised to do. If the rank in the loading screen is so easy why they wouldn't fix it? The point is this, if they want to let Coh die(which they do softly), at least they have to do it with respect, not only to the game but to the people that continue playing it and we have support it for so many years! I would prefer a straight answer like : we have abandon coh and not something like that. In the very end they discrediting their own game.
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Well now that relic has finished with western front, it's about time for us that we still play coh (and not coh2) to keep their promise. I mean they have said that they will bring Coh back to its former state (before steam version).
I want a proper rank system like before, both in loading screen and ladders. Don't you??? There are a lot of things still to be done and since they have promise about that well it's hell about time to make it happen!!!!
I want an answer from Noun, back then he used to inform us...What is going on with Smoking Gun is working now on something or we have to request it?
Forgive me about my not so good English, and tell me what's your opinion. |
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