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I consider myself an intelligent consumer. Typically, I research all the purchases that I plan on making. I have not purchased the planned Western front expansion as I feel I don't have enough information to make an informed decision.

With 2 weeks left until things go live, show your product off. Let casters cast, let me talk to the Alpha testers and get there feedback. Give me the info I need to preorder.

Thanks for your consideration on the matter.

I did not just provide that statistic, I also mentioned several reasons for the excistence of that particular statistic. Next to that, there is a strong significant statistical relation between past and future events in sports. This is the most important factor bookmakers use to assess the chance of a certain outcome. Aside from the spread between chances and odds, if statistics of past sport events did not matter, predicted chances and thereby odds would be false and no bookmaker would still be in business.

Therefore, logic dictates that Germany is not a favourite, despite of your "feelings of confidence".

Odds and predictions for international football are at best, educated guesses. For statistics to become useful in predicting future events you need a large and current sample. Teams don't play each other frequently enough to built reliable data. For example, take Germany vs Brazil - 2 games between the 2 sides over 9 years. Every condition/factor that would influence results are different from back then. As far as world cups being played in central/south America the sample size is 4.

The world cup could be won by one of a handful of team. Its going to come down to who's peaking as a team, the referees, injuries and luck.

Well, I can present a reason, dunno if it is what IpKai is thinking.

Everyone cried for this during beta, giving exhaustive reasons and presentations on why the CoH2 UI was rubbish.

If you make it a DLC, you are in effect paying Relic extra for making a shitty solution in the first place and grubbing in money later. It's simply too dirty.

Thanks for the reply.

I've gone back and reviewed most of the threads (on COH2.org) pertaining to the user interface. The majority of the comments were "it's sucks make it better". Lots of comparisons to other RTS's. Typically there was very little specifics or explanation of the above. A summery of specific UI (Task bar) complains/suggestions were:


Items addressed:

Commander location - Changed as per community request.(was vertical on the right)
Color scheme - Changed as per community request. (was green is now blue)
XP display - option added to display as it was in CoH as per community request
Different symbols on the mini map for different units - Partially address

Items not addressed:

Font issue too much Italic - I don't think this was changed. Can anyone remember if this has changed over time?
Unit display shields - Not addressed - Some wanted the VCoh shields some preferred the new style.
The amount of wasted space in "the bridge" where unit descriptions are displayed. I could only find a few comments pertaining to this.
Resource layout - Not addressed - The community wanted resources stacked vertically not horizontally. The community heavily favored this.


Of the items not address, I feel the majority are design choices. They're not right or wrong and are up to the discretion of the designers. However, I am puzzled as to why the last point, the vertical resource layout, was not changed. I can not remember a single supportive comment towards the horizontal layout. While it is the designers choice, I feel it is foolish to ignore the wishes of the majority of your customers.

To summarize:

I got the impression that most players providing feedback were huge fans of CoH and wanted it to have the very best UI of everything. It seems many are disappointed that the UI is not "better/different".
Some changes were made based on community feedback
Some changes suggested by the community were not implemented.
I could not find anything to suggest that Relic made promises with respect to upgrading or changing the UI. In fact the only hearsay I found was they weren't planning any changes and we needed to adapt. (See Tommy's thread on 4 things to make CoH2 better. Note this was just after release and a few changes, like the mini map icon thing, have happened contrary to the hearsay.)

If anyone has any additional information please post me some links.

You shouldnt pay for a necessity. If such a thing happens, people will mod and hack their own. It does not add stuff to the game, it should not be paid for.

When did the UN add "upgraded video game user interface" to the list of fundamental human needs? Last time I checked I had to pay for the actual necessities too.

First world problems I guess...

Pretty please.