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Thread: Company of Heroes III - Your expectations27 Aug 2016, 04:17 AM Jump back to quoted post26 Aug 2016, 21:23 PMJaedrik Oh, what a joy it would be if IP law was wiped away before the next CoH. There is no IP law at play with Company of Heroes save for the title. It's not as if you are talking about Star Wars where only people with the rights to make a game can. If people want to make a WWII RTS they can, and have. If there was a large untapped market for this then others would fill it as well. Relic make a good game and it's sold a lot of copies. 4 million+ when I was there and more since then. 500 people on a forum don't override the millions of copies sold. If you don't like it, fair enough. Nothing is so perfect that it couldn't be better. But the idea that there's some magical IP law preventing the game being made by someone else better is kind of off target. If Blizzard or anyone else wanted to make a WWII game they could. But like CoH2 it wouldn't be perfect. People complain about Blizzard games all the time. If fans want to make their own game they can. Heck I'll donate $10 to any reasonably professional Kickstarter if you manage to start that. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Company of Heroes III - Your expectations27 Aug 2016, 04:01 AM Jump back to quoted post25 Aug 2016, 17:38 PMHighfiveeeee Only if Noun DLC. I charge a lot for image rights. I doubt Relic can afford it, or would think it was worth the cost. They should have locked that down while I still worked there. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Company of Heroes III - Your expectations25 Aug 2016, 15:27 PM Cart racing game featuring national leaders from WWII. Winston drives a Land Rover. FDR gets a jeep. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Game feels dead24 Aug 2016, 15:14 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Aug 2016, 00:46 AMZombiFrancis If we removed the timestamps from this thread we could play a game of 'Guess what year this thread is from!' I remember this thread. There's been people calling the game dead for years now. Heck I remember reading that Relic was going to be shut down and everyone laid off by October of 2013. I'm sure there's relevant issues (I'm totally not up on balance at all) that can be talked about, but "Game is dead" is an overused debating tactic. It's like starting a campaign speech with "We all know my opponent is worse than Hitler..." it might fire up people that already agree with you but it's so overused that everyone else just smiles politely and heads for the exit. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: I'm more concerned about the Relic's efficiency25 Jul 2016, 23:51 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Jul 2016, 22:49 PMscratchedpaintjob are there other options? That's not for me to say, but there's more to it than it seems from the outside. And the weight of consequences and dependencies between what a community Modder / balancer has to work with versus what the development team has to is much different. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: I'm more concerned about the Relic's efficiency25 Jul 2016, 22:36 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Jul 2016, 21:49 PMscratchedpaintjob the example i made is a sign of something very serious going wrong at relic as i said: he does not need to lie, but at least say something. the mortar fix for example: he stated the fix would come early last week. it didnt. it takes !7 DAYS! for him to say its gonna be delayed. that is unacceptable. there is NO reason why he shouldnt find 1 freaking minute to go to the forums early last weak and say its gonna be delayed. NO REASON. just to be clear: i dont beat him up for a delayed patch, hes probably not responsible for that, and i like him taking the risk and giving an ETA, although it was completely wrong this time, a thing i dont judge him for aswell I don't know enough about what's up there now to argue on their behalf, and they're not paying me to! I just bristle at the fact that things in game development get played off as being much easier than they are, and that developers are just lazy or they'd do more or that they don't care. I guarantee that the patch isn't delayed because nobody cares and everyone is taking 3 hours lunches and playing PokemonGo. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: I'm more concerned about the Relic's efficiency25 Jul 2016, 18:12 PM I don't work at Relic so I don't know what's going on, and it would be unfair of me to speculate. My point was that it's one thing to say something like, "Relic should communicate more." and another to say "Relic isn't communicating because they're lazy/incompetent/don't care". I don't know Kyle at all, have never met him. I hear good things from both the people I know at Relic and the community I talk to. But no Community Manager wants to "lie" to their fans, because even if it gets them through a tough spot right at that moment it just makes things so much harder later on. I've heard from the community that he's been good at giving details about what they're working on, where I was perhaps overly cautious in that regard. The flip side of this is that if he gets beaten up anytime they don't go as fast as you think they should he'll be less likely to do so in the future. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: I'm more concerned about the Relic's efficiency25 Jul 2016, 17:35 PM Everyone that I know at Relic is passionate about the projects they work on. They love the games and are so proud of them. Most of them could make more in another field, game development generally doesn't pay as much as similar positions in say medical software or banking development. People are there because they love games, and they want to make games that make people happy. They also love CoH and are proud to work on it. I think there's lots of fair and valid reasons to be critical of Relic, or any game maker. I think where the criticism is unwarranted is when it goes from "Relic should do X instead of Y" and goes into "Relic does X because they're lazy/incompetent/don't care". In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Hearts of Iron IV12 Jul 2016, 21:29 PM I picked it up after recommendations from a few people. I started playing it but got distracted by Firewatch and the Steam Summer Sale. I'll have to sit through the tutorial though I think, as it seems like a lot of levelling up and not a lot of happening. Really I just want to run Canada and talk to my stuffed dog like an historically accurate Prime Minister. In: Other Games
Thread: Why don't more girls play RTS games?11 Jul 2016, 14:30 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Jul 2016, 10:17 AMBasilone If the majority of girls are actually closet hardcore gamers, enlighten us. I don't think anyone's suggesting that there's a million women who are closet elite top 20 ranked CoH / StarCraft players and are just shy. I think the real issue is building a more diverse fan base for the future. The question is why don't more women play RTS games and I think we have a lot of pretty decent answers here. The next question is do we (and by we I mean you and Relic I have no skin in this game and I'd much rather they go and play survival horror games) want to change that? If the answer is no, everyone is happy with the Bro-Down-Hoe-Down that the CoH / larger RTS community is then that's fine. If the answer is yes, then the question is what's next? Again I don't have that answer. If I did I'd sell it to someone for big bucks. I did my best to highlight historic female fighters in WWII and Relic's history of strong female characters in CoH2 when we launched but obviously two blog posts didn't solve anything. Shocking I know. In: News