Profile of Tiger Baron

Jump back to quoted post11 Jul 2019, 10:29 AMblvckdream

Yes. Soviet Union bad. Western countries good. /end

Who needs overly complicated thought processes anyways??

Jump back to quoted post10 Jul 2019, 23:10 PMelchino7

You have to get out of the bubble and see how is the market nowadays. 6 year old me was playing C&C and AoE1 without understanding really what i was doing.

Different generation kids went from playing LoL, to playing Minecraft to playing Fortnite. While the BR fever has pass, the playerbase is still strong. Then you have the new sensation on the Autochess genre (on which both DOTA and LOL were fast to develop and capitalise).

And this is only accounting for the PC market. When you can't sell a game on consoles without sacrificing the design of it, you are reaching way less people. (Let's leave mobile cause that's another abomination of a topic to talk about).

There are no AAA strategy games, cause all the 90/00 glories who try to release a title in the last 10 years have failed. There are only 4 relevant IPs (AoE, WC, SC, CoH), from which we only know 1 is on the making after a long hiatus (AoE).

Interesting that Microsoft brought AoE back, but they are getting all the monies from the nostalgia train with AoE 2 HD, AoE DE, AoE 2 DE and future AoE3 DE before releasing AoE4.

Blizzard has WC and SC, but they are more content with releasing remakes (SC1 HD and WC3 Reforge). The SC2 competitive dwindle down since WoL and the best to happen to the game was the CoOP commanders mode.

Let me give you a list of titles from the last 5 years:
-Planetary Annihilation: from the Total Annihilation franchise. Dead
-Men of war 2: HEAVILY niche game. What ARMA was before getting a boost on sales because of a zombie mode.
-Stronghold Crusade: dead
-Homeworld RE: dead
-Grey goo: from Westwood devs (C&C), dead.
-Cossacks3: dead
-Halo wars: dead
-Steel division: dead
-Spellforce: d
-Total war Arena: d
-Dawn of War 3: d

The most successful thing we have seen in the last years is They are billions, but that's a single player pseudo Tower defense game which allows people to pause (which makes it more accessible to new players in the genre). Even that small movement didn't shake the market and then we have failures who tried to jump in the train as Connan.

Jump back to quoted post10 Jul 2019, 18:23 PMSander93

If you don't know what the community wants, and you're using nothing as evidence, then you shouldn't say the community wants a certain thing. You and others want it, and that's completely fine, but that doesn't mean everyone does. The poll I quoted confirmed that most people don't care, and that 1/3 of the people who bothered to vote voted "no", so there is nothing to indicate the community wants a different skin.



For the record Relic never called this shot, because we never brought it up. I personally never brought it up for the reasons I stated above (which is why I explained them), because I don't think it's our job as a community balance team to mess with Relic's artistic assets. And Relic doesn't work on the game anymore, besides putting our balance suggestions in.



Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't think it's possible to change it for automatch because it uses a special skin.