Let's simulate the actual result of your HD idea as a brief 1 act play I wrote.
Relic: Hey we've applied some balance fixes and new HD graphics to vCoH and you can buy it now for $30! Great news!
Community: So you fixed a few bugs that you should have fixed five years ago and took the community's balance suggestions and are charging $30 for it? Relic sucks. SEGA sucks. You suck. Fire Noun he's a dirtbag!
Relic: But new graphics.
Community: We don't care about graphics, these new graphics aren't as good as the old ones. The graphics make the game run slower on my machine.
Relic: But you asked for this.
Community: Nobody asked to pay $30 for a game we already own.
Even if everyone on COH2.ORG loved it and bought 10 copies we'd still be hundreds of thousands of copies short of even breaking even on something like this.
We feel that it's better to support our current players who already bought CoH, rather than to close it and try to make them buy CoH 2015.
OR
Relic: Great news! We've released vCoH:HD with some balance fixes and new HD graphics. You can buy it now for $xx!
Community: Interesting... Does it have an observer mode? Is there any new content?
Relic: Yes! We also added a german campaign, new maps, new skins, support of further content through DLC, ...
Community:
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I am glad that CoH new steam version support hasn't been dropped and I really hope the upcoming patch manages to fix most of the bugs and not bring any new ones.
I don't agree with the ideia of lauching CoH HD remake, let's make a pros/cons list:
[Pros]
- New graphics/textures;
- New maps added like Argentan crossroads, Bois du Chatelet, etc...;
- Balance and bug fixes.
[Cons]
- No new content apart from better graphics/textures and new maps (It will not bring new campaigns, units, abilities, gameplay changes, etc...);
- Lack of interest from the playerbase (its the same game only with better graphics/textures).
Fell free to expand this list.
Probably to most of the people involved in this thread, including me, CoH2 didn't had the appeal that orginal CoH still has. I miss the streams from SNF, ntd, pez, budwise, marinez, gendodo, nosliw, xcom, helpinghans, pepsi, inverse, c0mpl3x1ty, devm, sandland, sepha, etc... (sorry if I am missing someone). How many of them are currently broadcasting CoH2? and how many of them still broadcast original CoH?
CoH2 might not be appealing to me or you but it is to other players and we have to respect that. I no longer play CoH2 but I still like to watch helpinghans, siberian, cataclaw and vonivan streams.
I would prefer a new game based only on original vCoH (Wehrmacht and Americans) keeping the good stuff from original CoH and adding good features from CoH2 (vaulting, offmap spawn, sector capturing) and a new/better business model to ensure a good and long lasting game support. |