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Never forgetti the Hooligan loss

Resti in spaghetti

I have some pretty valuable opinions here, I have a history of criticising Relic when they have needed to be (pay2win DLC etc.) - but have also had one of the closest working relationships with Relic since late 2015 onward. For example I'm hosting their Make War Not Love event on the 16th, and hosted their staff tournament stream - read into that what you will... (Relic shill/ sellout etc.)

So in the past few years I have experienced the changes first hand - from everything I've seen at the moment we have more reasons to be positive than ever. Especially relative to 2012 - 2015.

Relic negativity right now is based upon DoWIII being a huge misstep and failure, it has nothing to do with Age of Empires 4 for which they are the art and design studio and have every chance of knocking out of the park. Mostly because its a completely separate and new entity for them and they're working closely with Microsoft. Nor does it have anything to do with "the future of the Company of Heroes franchise" which based upon a game series that is very healthy and active despite its age, and is their bread and butter.

True drama, or panic stations would have been in late 2012 when there nearly wasn't a CoH2 when THQ went bust, not now.

That said you do have to believe that Relic probably are 'one bad game away from closure' but then again that would probably represent half of medium sized developers.

You can tell by their hiring policies at the moment that they are replacing a lot of the management structure or moving people around. So perhaps the Glassdoor criticisms will be old hat in time.

So yeah, "meh", would be my overall tl;dr from this thread.

Hi we need two big name 2v2 teams to assemble to play live on Relic's segment as part of SEGA's Make Love Not War celebration.

The stream will be on Friday February 16th from 6pm GMT to 8pm GMT

The two top teams will assemble and play one another, with a few surprise twists added in to make things interesting. Probably including two games.

The reward is simply having fun playing in-front of an audience.

I'll host and most likely Stormless will join co-commentate if available.

Let me know if you and your partner would like to participate below, or via PM.

Update:

had a few PMs, the teams will be Talisman and Hooligan vs. Noggano and Scotch (GPII)

Don't worry though there will be some interesting twists that will make things very interesting indeed and very competitive. Stay tuned.

Excellent initiative I've always want to see more content of this type on .org and glad we're seeing some with this.