Profile of Noun

1. thq didn't have enough money, so if thq still owned it coh2 will still be in the dark.

2. sega doesn't care about coh2.

1. THQ spent money on promotions. Sometimes they spent it stupidly, but they spent money on marketing.

2. SEGA cares. The thing is going to things like E3, PAX, GamesCom and all that costs money. Floor space, flying the dev team out, swag and so on. CoH 2 has been out since June and we don't yet have anything new to see. We've been at 2 E3s, Pax East (in some way), last year's GamesCom probably a few other shows as well as things like the E3 Judges show.

So are SEGA going to spend a lot of money to let people see CoH 2 when it's both already out and was there last year? No. Because people go to shows to see new games and to be the first to get their hands on things.

It's also a lot about getting your game in front of the press. The press has all played CoH 2. They're not going to write a story about it, unless something new happens. Bloggers and industry fan sites aren't going to write anything about the game, because again it's been out since June.

If we were launching in September and we weren't at GamesCom then that would be kind of curious. But we've been to GamesCom, we don't have anything new to show yet and SEGA has games coming out pretty quick that would be better to show off (Rome 2, Football Manager).

Anyone who has been suspended is welcome to write info@relic.com to discuss the issue. I've had several constructive conversations with people who have been suspended. Just this week we suspended a player for a week and then after a conversation decreased that to 1 day.

In that situation he was able to see what was wrong with his conduct and promised to moderate his own behaviour in the future. Now there's no guarantee he won't break the rules again, but I'm for giving people who are willing to try the benefit of the doubt.

We don't discuss specific situations in public so I won't comment on the case that people have referenced other than to say repeat that everyone has the same chance to discuss their situation offline and in private.

Don't forget the ability to change faceplates.

What... Anyone? Anyone?

Bueller... Bueller...

I think Noun rejected my friend request on Steam. It's probably because I didn't notice he posted on my Steam fan club page asking for a replay until like 4 weeks later, because I don't get emails when people post there. Now I have the replay he wanted but he'll never get it

Ack sorry about that. I get a lot of friend requests on Steam because sometimes my account appears in screenshots. Most people don't care about me as a person they just want my fame.

Sorry, I'm crying a little inside.

Anyway send the request again if you'd like and I'll try to catch it. I can't remember what replay I wanted.

I thought of you Noun when i read this article, devs like you really need thick skin to interact with the community

www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-harassment-erodes-industry-spurs-support-groups

That article was very good. It's sad that good people are leaving gaming because of harassment. Considering the best developers could earn as much or more working in another industry I wouldn't be surprised if more people started leaving.

Then you guys will just be left with dummies like me who can't get a normal job elsewhere.

Mostly though the communities I've worked with have been great. You guys are fantastic. The SSX community was amazing too. And I miss the Bronies on Space Marine, they were fun ponies.

Just to be clear we are very happy with the performance of CoH 2 so far. It's tracking very well against the sales of our other games, including DoW II and the original CoH. Some of that's made the news: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/07/31/sega-financials-rise-on-positive-company-of-heroes-2-sales

We have a long term plan to support the game and will continue to roll out new features. For example today we're adding map veto. We have an aggressive support plan in place that will see new content dropping regularly, much of it for free. We are in an exceptionally good place with a publisher who understands both what we want to do and the PC gaming market.

People will come and go as the game grows and changes. A lot of people just buy games for the single player experience, and after a few months will have finished up the campaign and other missions only to return when more of that stuff comes is released. Others, like most of you, only really play for multiplayer and so will stay on constantly as long as you're having fun.

Whether or not you're having fun is up to you, and we're eager for all the feedback we can get about why you may or may not be having fun. That helps us improve the game and we definitely appreciate it.

But the rumors of CoH 2's death are greatly exaggerated.

As for leaderboards we're very thankful for the hard work that COH2.ORG put into the ladders here. We will have Steam Leaderboards, which are being built by a third party who has been much slower than they should be.

If you think about who might be the non-Relic company responsible for Steam Leaderboards you may guess who it is. For whatever reason they promised us Leaderboards at launch and have so far failed to provide them.

We're sorry about that, and for now it's beyond our control. However it did prompt us to work with COH2.ORG to provide something in the meantime and I think these ones are probably cooler.