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Thread: Call to action - Let's Be Awesome Together13 Feb 2014, 22:20 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2014, 22:17 PM5trategos That's good to hear. I just hope that in the future there won't be a 3 month wait for the next iteration. Things take time to change. Balance is quicker. We've updated the Elite Troops and I'm sure it may be looked at again in the near future. If we look at something like an economic model for selling a specific type of DLC content, then that's a bit of a harder change to make. There may be stuff in the pipeline that we've spent money making, that we need to recoup the cost. We're working more agile, quicker and able to make adjustments faster than we used to be able to. But things still take awhile. In: Lobby
Thread: Call to action - Let's Be Awesome Together13 Feb 2014, 22:15 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2014, 21:47 PMStoffa Noun there is one question that I think truly deserves an answer from Relic: Did you guys deliberately release new paid commanders in an overpowered form? Nope. Adjusting balance isn't cheap. It's not the most expensive thing we do, but it's not free. It would be better if we did it perfect the first time. Everyone would be happier, and we'd save time and effort in adjusting things after release. Whatever money extra we might make by releasing an unbalanced piece of DLC on purpose is likely not worth the cost of fixing it later. How many people only would buy a Commander because its stats are say X% better than they should be? Probably not enough to justify that kind of plan. Further it's a trick that would only work a few times, as people would come to expect a balance change. In the end we don't deliberately try to do things to make people mad. Yes things we do make some people mad, but that's not our goal. In the end we iterate, learn what worked and what didn't and move forward. In: Lobby
Thread: Streamer Saturday!13 Feb 2014, 19:33 PM Yeah, I wouldn't want this to just be "elite" streamers or anything. We'd want to share the love as widely as possible. Even though that's how diseases spread. In: Lobby
Thread: Call to action - Let's Be Awesome Together13 Feb 2014, 19:25 PM Thanks to everyone for their consideration. Apologies if I've insulted anyone's talent. I think we have a lot of great content creators of all stripes. I think criticisms of specific casts are unwarranted. They've all been great, and everyone is doing their best to make stuff that they love. Von Kluge pointed out in a PM that I hadn't mentioned people who do things in the background like organize tournaments and put on contests or those who write guides. It's all appreciated, and it's all great stuff. We're interested in knowing how we can better highlight that stuff. Something like this is great: http://www.coh2.org/topic/14040/streamer-saturday We'll give it a shot, and see how it's goes. We want to help people who are excited about the game share that passion and hopefully this helped open a dialogue for how that could better work going forward. This isn't going to convince anyone that doesn't like the game to suddenly like it and I didn't expect it to. Anyway thanks for hearing me out. In: Lobby
Thread: Streamer Saturday!13 Feb 2014, 18:26 PM I think the process should have a way to apply, so we can review sample streams. But getting new people in would be a goal. In: Lobby
Thread: Call to action - Let's Be Awesome Together13 Feb 2014, 18:12 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2014, 18:04 PMKolaris I thought we heard it from dev team leaders, either Quinn Duffy or Stefan Haines. Maybe I was wrong. But either way I understand what happened. Relic had an understanding with THQ, a plan for their business model, and THQ had said "we won't make you do this". And then they move over to Sega who says "we just paid $25 Million so you could move in with us or you'd be on the street. Of course you'll do P2W DLC" It's unfortunate that anyone ever said that DLC wouldn't affect multiplayer and then DLC did. This is one of the reasons I don't always share things with you guys, because plans change. I wasn't at Relic when this was said, but I'm sure that at the time it was true. Things change, though from my understanding this change was already in place before SEGA bought Relic. In: Lobby
Thread: Streamer Saturday!13 Feb 2014, 18:07 PM Thanks for setting this up Hans. And I agree. On Facebook things with big images always do better. Having a great picture to go along with a link helps it. That's why the majority of what we post has pictures, or videos. This one in particular was a cock up on my part, because the system we use to post for some reason always screws up links to Twitch. It's something I have to remember, and most of the time I do. This time I screwed it up. In: Lobby
Thread: Call to action - Let's Be Awesome Together13 Feb 2014, 17:49 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2014, 17:45 PMNapalm I agree Kurt. Being a community manager he should be able to contact those responsible for such a decision and provide clarity to the community. Open and honest feedback, ya know? Something on the lines of a "Lessons learned from Soviet Industry and Elite Troops DLC" blog post that captures Relic's original intent of those commanders, what when wrong, and what they are doing the in future to prevent such issues would go a long way in distilling confidence into the community. Confidence would go a long way in our community recommending this game to others. We haven't released new paid DLC Commanders recently. I'm not in a position to promise that we won't ever again, but we're aware of the feedback from players who didn't like them and we're continuing to balance those that are released. In: Lobby
Thread: Call to action - Let's Be Awesome Together13 Feb 2014, 17:27 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2014, 17:19 PMFanatic Am an active broadcaster since 2010 and during all those years there was exactly no support from Relic. Of course there was no german content creator invited to vancouver, of course none of us was allowed to stream CoH2 while it was still in beta state. I cant even say how many Emails and pm´s i wrote asking for support and I dont even get a single respond. Its the same for all other german CoH YouTuber. If you don´t want to work with us just say it. But ignoring us is rude, disrespectful and unprofessional as we talk about being professional. We advertise for CoH years and i cant even say how many people bought CoH because of our videos. I spend hundred of hours with post editing, organizing events and stuff. And now want to tell us how we have to do our job and blame us for our toxic behavoiur which is the reason why CoH2 and the CoH franchise is in such a bad shape. Thats just ridiculous and it makes no sense and makes me angry like hell. Agreed. We're addressing this. I think you'll see we posted some content on our FB page from the German community. We're also active on Company of Heroes Headquarter now. In: Lobby
Thread: Call to action - Let's Be Awesome Together13 Feb 2014, 17:16 PM I think people should make the content they want. If they want to attract viewers one thing to consider is short form content to help attract them. That's all. Do what makes you excited and happy. In: Lobby