Profile of Fantomasas

This is such a bad direction for discussion.

And how much of the blame is because the PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR of CoH3 is an executive whose past is mostly an executive from EA. The game was trusted to this dude, David Littman, and he fucked us all. His past includes being a hockey player, and then 10 years of hockey game production for EA. WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU EXPECT TO HAPPEN WHEN THE DIRECTOR IS SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER WORKED ON RTS BEFORE. No wonder they prioritized the fucking console port and mtx, because... that is where EA made most of the money on the hockey game.

Instead of blaming women/minorities/sjw/egs and all the other buzzwords, just blame this guy. Even if Relic had employees who weren't the best qualified in all roles (I doubt it, but I can give you 10% of blame to the mandated corporate hiring). I looked up some profiles on linkedin what I can find, they all have backgrounds in mobile games, smaller games, enterprise - none of them are unqualified, and most are the white dudes. Still, if the project isn't going smoothly along, it is always on the producer/director to set things right, not the low-level employees to somehow steer the ship.

We lost. We all lost with these layoffs because you cannot "continue" with your plan without the audio team, and probably the more than half of CoH3 team. If AOE4/Team2 is spared, then it COH3/Team1/(probably DOW3 too) is the one being culled.

In conclusion: captain hockey is the person responsible for COH3 fuckup. Even if he is replaced, COH3 team lost so much development power (they are not hiring replacements), it is physically impossible to steer it forward. If you thought COH3 development was slow with 100/100 popcap, now we have the 40/100 popcap trying to win the late game against Axis.

Alright, lets wait for the final announcement.

Wishlist:
• All store content frozen and delayed indefinitely until the playerbase rebounds to CoH2 levels
• 1 map per month starting from June
• Battlegroups every second month
• Working on the two faction Expansion for multiplayer, campaign not in-development
• Confirmed quality of life features such as leaver punishments, spectate, replays, real matchmaker incentives.
• Acknowledgement that the launch state and content of this game is poor, community concerns weren't taken into account.

Expectations:
• We hear ya, monitoring feedback, community is our priority
• We are not not not NOT DOW3'ing COH3, committed to CoH3 future
• The new bridge map is coming, at least two more maps in the future someday
• Some vague balance change directions
• Layoffs have no effect on CoH3, now half the CoH team members will do double the work, twice as fast, and even superior quality.
• Expansions in development but nothing concrete

Nothing healthy about Relic's turnover. It is a downsizing, and the unplanned one with 30 min notices to the 30% of your total workforce.

Turnover is healthy when studios maintain the same workforce, and have open vacancies (hasn't been the case with Relic for months now, or just 1 specialized request). Some retire, some choose other employers, build their own companies, some get fired for poor performance. Ideally leaving employees stick around those extra 2-4 weeks to train their replacements, ensuring smooth transitions and it is all on friendly terms.

The puzzle is, what are there 4 community managers. Wouldn't surprised if John is the only one doing work, while 3 others are "monitoring feedback" aka slacking all day long.

Expected. If your employees shit the bed, and label themselves as successful, you have to clean the house yourself. The only hope is that it is the unskilled fat and managers who are being trimmed, and not the actual developers.

It is going to get DOW3'ed. Keep in mind there weren't mass layoffs after DOW3, while we aren't even in the console launch of COH3 and the heads are already rolling.

Somehow I doubt that the layoffs will hit the people it should, which were the project managers and people above them. Several of my immediate family are programmers. I hear their side of stories like this when they happen, which usually happens when the project manager doesn't understand everything that needs to happen to deliver a successful product.

You are probably right on this one, simply because to restructure and layoff the low-productivity employees you need to send in some outside/independent HR agents: to inspect reports, interview employees, gather feedback, write their own reports on productivity/quality/risks of the studio.

It cannot be a snap decision, because if it is: then it is the Relic management who caused the problems in the first place: low-productivity + low-quality output.

Again the community can stand up to save the day. Just open up the mod. so we can mod merge the both game into one hell of war experience ! Coh2 was save, it can be done again !

People told you in your thread how idiotic the idea that you can just merge both games is, and instead of changing your point of view, you still suggesting it.

You do realize that both games use completely different engines, right? There is no such possibility like "Copy content from CoH2 and paste it in CoH3". Everything needs to be re-built from scratch

Not the icons mate.

But yes, merging games is impossible. Perhaps you could get away with much faster production time editing and retexturing some tank models, at the same time re-mastering the old maps from existing CoH3 environmental assets rather than rebuilding precise building/terrain details as they were in CoH2 maps.

Right now, the content is a joke, and if there is a choice between two remastered CoH2 units/maps, versus one new CoH3 asset from scratch: I take the first option until CoH3 reaches half the content of CoH2.

Reuse audio, icons, base-models, gameplay role/design of the Sturmtiger. Bring it to the CoH3. It would have been fine if Relic weren't laggards with launch content, but we are at the position where the team is scounting for the 4vs4 map, maybe summer you will get some actual game DLC, yet the quality of it might be botched anyway.

We are almost three months in, there is 0 new content. Skins or some bug-fixes aren't content.