pretty solid numbers for a RTS, what ware you on about? You are also lying about the vCoH part: http://steamgraph.net/index.php?action=graph&appid=4560q231430&from=0
Do some reaserach before you try to sound like Doctor Wisdom. Company of Heroes started to be Steam only game from 7th May this year (but server migration started in April this year). Before that date CoH was on Quazal servers. Steam stats represent just people that were loged directly through Steam. So he is telling the truth about 7-8k people online in CoH (going to near 10k sometimes). But after server migration player base just droped drasticly, to many bugs now in CoH or many just refused to use Steam, I don't know. Here is a post on CoH2.org about server migration:
http://www.coh2.org/topic/2033/company-of-heroes-server-migration