Profile of Rosbone

As ex-dev(designer to be specific), yeah, and its missing largest misconception ever since steam chart exists.

Daily concurrency =! active players.
Daily concurrency is just that, how many players logged into the game at specific day and how was the peak.
Real metric of player activity is being measured at weekly and monthly retention, because only and exclusively the most hardcore of players play the exact same game on a daily basis.

Daily concurrency dropoff in 2 months post release is normal, anything higher then 90% is "ded gaem", anything between 90 and 70% is regular drop and if daily concurrency retains more then 30% after two months, its jackpot only a handful of games can show.

Bigger indicator then daily peaks is how many players come online during time when new content patches are deployed, because both hardcore and casual, less frequently playing players want to check them out within first couple of days of release and even that is not always true, hence MAU chart, which we have no access to what so ever is the only accurate one for estimating active playerbase.

None of your post means jack shit to someone who is currently in queue looking for a game. This game is dead. No matter how you spin it or try to cope. It is dead. Relic failed. Again. As predicted.

Matching current Coh2 numbers is NOT a success. You are all left to garbage match making again. Coh3 is just a Coh2 turd with some water sprinkled on it to make it seem fresh.

In 6 months or a year, there may be more players. But will it be the number of players there could have been if this release was not a complete joke?

Someone who has Star Wars Sequel profile pics is NOT ALLOWED to talk about aesthetics. Useless poll and post.

I actually like the large ground artillery type explosions in Coh3. Coh2 explosions had a "person jumping in a pool" type effect that I liked but not sure how realistic it was. Coh3 seems much closer to actual artillery explosions.

The rest I have not even noticed if they differ much. So I have no vote.

I bring up, is it possible the new explosions are closer to real life? The art team seems to have really worked hard on the in-game effects, textures, etc. The UI team seems to have been non-existent. May have been the same people and they focused entirely on in-game 3D stuffs.

The game started at a peak of around 30k players. Now it is down to around 14k on the weekend. 12k during the week. By this coming Wednesday we could be seeing below 10k players.

As predicted 9540 on Wednesday. Its almost like I know what I am talking about.

Referencing this reddit post - not mine but job well done
https://www.reddit.com/r/CompanyOfHeroes/comments/11rfvqr/it_took_me_less_than_an_hour_to_make_these_you/

Steam and its patch infrastructure

I am old school. I always quote Quakes "Its done when its done."

But having early access to a game has its draws. We get to play it sooner rather than later. We have more opportunity to guide the devs to making the final game we really want. The community can feel closer to the devs since we have a voice.

And it is too good to pass up for the devs. They dont waste another year making a game no one buys.

I get it. I can live with some bugs while they get things smoothed out.

- But this game has not improved much since last year, which means our "VOICES" have been ignored.
- The design choices for UI, feedback, information are completely unacceptable.
- The game mechanics that were proven to be bad in Coh2 are back.

From what I remember about DOW3, people said the community told them what they wanted and Relic did not listen.

I would gladly give this game a good review (because I feel it will be great someday), if not for the three things I listed above.

These all say "Relic is not listening to anyone and are clueless to what people want". They deserve to crash and burn. Even though we all want them to excel and continue to make great games in the future.

Sadly I have been saying this for the last 2 years, watching Relic is like watching a young mentally handicapped kid trying to do some complicated task. And you are rooting for them, knowing full well they will fail miserably.