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too bad that who actually won the war doesnt relate to whom ppl prefer to play at all, eh?
you feel the urge to express your opinion on quality when lemon was talking mere looks (which actually influence player preference)

you made this thread
11/10 faceplams

I made it to 11!

COOL!

Hundreds of thousands, you srs? hahaha

22,000 M4s with the 76mm and another 10,000 Tank Destroyers (if you include M10s and 18s). That was in just 3-4 years of production. In comparison only 8,550 PIVs of all variants were built during the 6 years Germany was in the war.

We think of things like the Firefly, the Comet, the Pershing and several Russian tanks as having "limited" productions, but at least 1,000 of each was built and often much more. That only seems limited when compared to the 50,000 total Shermans or T-34s built.

All that "cool" German kit was often just a hodgepodge of designs and upgrades not all of which was built to spec and often even what was still didn't work reliably in the field.

It's not the game, it's the community

Probably not just the community.

I have heard rumors that that anonymity of the Internet can sometimes bring out the worst in people. But it's only a rumor.

Your logic works in 1vs1 and 2vs2, not above. How can you explain that in 1vs1, excluding period of big flaw in the balance, the average looking for a match was 40/60 one way or the other but in 3vs3/4vs4 it has always been 80% Axis 20% allied?
Suddenly in 4vs4 people like to play Axis because of bad guys are good looking? But not in 1vs1?
1vs1 is more difficult to play, you need more skill apart from doing some cheesy strategies, and same here, 1vs1 cheessy strats require way more skill and practice than in 4vs4.
So people are playing Axis because in 4vs4 those factions are noob friendly. Of course there are still a base of real Axis fanboy, but the true is make it harder as it is in 1vs1 and you'll see people playing both factions.

I mean, people are saying that in fora, "I like to play Allied but since Axis is easier in 3vs3/4vs4 I play Axis with my friends because:
1- I want to relax and play easy
2- My friends want to relax and play easy
3- My friends are noob".

Logic?! You are going to use logic against these arguments? How dare you!

If I am wrong someone please correct me, but there has never been a time in random 4v4 when Allies were competitive with Axis and in fact I remember after WFA was released that people welcomed US players showing up with a grown because it meant an almost sure loss.

As to someone's player card showing wins.... meh.

When there are so few searching it is easy to get on with your friends and the chances you will be in a pseudo-AT team as Allies is pretty darned good. (0% searching means there is no competition!)

This is practically the entire state of 4v4 in COH1 right now. People see who is on and join the side that already has something like 10 to 0 search (the players in-the-know) and then they play a bunch of noobs who don't know what hit them. Or sometimes 4 friends all switch fast to the other side and get a match as a practical AT.

Also always easy referring to playercards while not showing the own.



I agree, it's frustrating for both sides and I already asked relic in the past about this. Answer: they want to avoid long waiting times

I don't show my card because basically I am a old fart who doesn't set up every option when I join a website and also because of that, though I can understand what I am supposed to do, I seem to be incapable of teaching my left hand to micro. I also haven't played COH2 in forever since I am getting better at, and enjoy more, COH1.

But I want Relic to succeed. And one thing I do understand is business and consumers (I have two that make consumer products). It is always tempting to give a consumer what they say they really really want more than all other things (a short wait, for example). But the experts of the business are supposed to be those that run it. If short waits are cancerous to your player base. If people quit, and I mean quit, as in delete COH2 as I did, then you are not doing the playerbase, and hence the matchmaking, any good.

While your example works in all situations, a game should NOT be started under those circumstances. Not ever. Better a few more minutes of wait and a good gaming experience for all. But we also know that this state got there because those players who want to play allies learned not to play large team games as random.... Or they quit. And this was the case even in the days when the matching was more even, because it isn't balanced, not at low and mid levels.

But sounds like you are ok with losing a substantial number of early players since you aren't recommending fixes.

I have said it many times; to make this much asymmetry is a cancer. It was with OF units and it is now with these factions. Too much difference for difference's sake.