Now look, I'm not a caster or a streamer, but I've been in this community since 2010. First off, as for the toxicity, it rarely exists between streamers, but it definitely does exist throughout commenters or people talking in the background. Can streamers control it obviously, but they can't completely prevent it from happening.
Plus, streamers stream to be entertaining or to hang out with the community rather then simply promoting the game. Again, I'm not a streamer, but you don't have to be a genius to figure this out.
Recently, you've been tweeting when players are streaming, keep that up. Even though I don't enjoy the game, however, I still watch streams just to chat with other people. I would've never find about Sib, Von, Rogers and etc without the COH2.org stream list at its front page. To be honest, if it wasn't for VonIvan's streams with master chef and some good COH2 gamplay, I wouldn't think I would still have Coh2 installed or be typing this right now. I watch these twitch streams for the streamers, not the game, but the fact that they are playing the game just gets me re-interested into the game and see if it has improved.
If you want Company of Heroes 2 Community Entertainment Base to grow, then you need to grow a larger amount of players. Now look, I don't want to completely copy Ivan's post, but the optimization completely daunted players especially the free weekend players. Many of my friends didn't play the game because their frames per second were too low. 30 frames per second is basically unplayable for a RTS. Is this because the engine is poorly optimized, mainly, but your developers who created the video options did a poor job, a really bad job. Where is AO, shadows, and post processing? They are in the configuration files, but they aren't in the actual game options. And the sad thing is that when many of people disabled some of these options in the config files; they gained around 20-25 fps allowing them to play at a stable frame-rate. Imagine the amount of people who wouldn't have been kicked out of multiplayer games and quit the game if these 3 options were in your options.
Also this game is very CPU demanding, do you guys know why? It's because there is a encoder running in the background recording replays. You can disable it, if you tweak some of the game settings in your company of heroes 2 folder and many people reported that they gained 27-33 frames per second after the tweak. Yes, they do lose replays, but in exchange they can properly play the game without it being a slide show and won't get kicked from games.
Where are our beloved mod tools? I'm not talking about map tools. I'm talking about the ability to allow users to create high resolution texture packs, custom soldier skins, (which wouldn't affect skin sales since only the player can see it) and the ability to create massive popular mods such as modern combat or the eastern front mod. Yes, we can make them but we can't actually use them in game for some reason. Mods extend the life of games: skyrim, fallout, Battlefield 2, Arma 2, basically every Valve game, even Halo 1 Combat evolved, which are old games yet they are still commonly played because of mods.
Yes, casters grow the game, but they aren't best the way to grow the game. First, the game itself needs to be good. If your commander balance director decides to keep on poorly testing these commanders, and yes, I'm pointing fingers not on Brad or Pq but that guy. The guy will be the catalyst of killing off the series. His first strike was the A-Grens, which luckily were nerfed right away. His second strike was windustry and elite troops, which took way to long to nerf, we both know the reasons why for that. If there is a 3rd strike, well we both don't want to see that happen.
Keep tweeting out casters and streamers, do more sales and free weekends, and please listen to the top members of the community, they basically represent the COH2 community. I'm just a random person who is typing this late at night. They know more; they built this site because they love the franchise and I'm pretty sure for that reason, they are dedicated to improve it. But they can't help, if you guys are always quiet to them. If you read this far then I'm impressed, anyways thanks for reading.
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