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Thread: EA RTS Studio Turned Into A Parking Lot13 Jul 2013, 00:11 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Jul 2013, 23:07 PMsolidgamertv What are some indie studios that have created RTS games? Most RTS games with online Multiplayer are from big studios with the big budget to set up servers etc. Swords & Soldiers. its pretty good. In: Other Games
Thread: Invasion of maphackers has begun12 Jul 2013, 22:05 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Jul 2013, 21:56 PMWarMonkey Relic should buy the maphack software, then tear it apart so they know how to block it the hackers will just come up with an alternate method. it is a never ending coding war. and it is a war Relic will eventually lose to the endless hoards of.... sry to break into a Warcraft3 story line there... you get the idea. In: Lobby
Thread: EA RTS Studio Turned Into A Parking Lot12 Jul 2013, 20:45 PM http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-07-12-ea-phenomic-closed the RTS genre has not exactly been flourishing the past 10 years. This does not help. In: Other Games
Thread: metacritic score 12 Jul 2013, 16:19 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Jul 2013, 11:32 AMGrund I now have 6, yes that is right 6 friends, who I play Guild Wars 2 with and have been trying to get them to come over and try COH2. All 6 of them have taken stock of the metacritic score and have decided NOT to buy even though I have told them to take no notice of it and that its a good game. when CoH1 got a great metacritic score from both users and critics it was trumpeted by Relic and THQ as this great indicator of the game's quality. CoH2 gets a lower score than SC2:WoL and SC2:HotS. And, users are just destroying CoH2 in their reviews while providing mixed reviews to SC2. Now the fanboys claim, Metacritic is meaningless. Of course, you can not have it both ways. I think Metacritic scores have some meaning to them. For 2006 Tech Levels CoH1 is far better than CoH2 (relative to 2013 tech levels). And the Metacritic scores have reflected this reality. The CoH1 campaign is much better as well. When CoH1 came out all RTS fans i knew and I reacted like.. "wow this is fucking awesome stuff". No one is saying "wow" about CoH2. Here is a small anecdote: The guy who owns Toronto's (most populous city in canada) best internet cafe states that "no one is playing CoH2" "its all Dota2, LoL, SC2, WoW, GW2, and even Minecraft" "when a gang of 10 guys comes in to play its always the games above... i do not even have CoH2 installed on any machines" What can not be denied is the plummeting # of simultaneous CoH2 users on Steam. Look for CoH2 to go on sale during Steam's "Super Summer Sale" that ends July 22. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: metacritic score 11 Jul 2013, 14:09 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Jul 2013, 14:05 PMCaeltos Company of Heroes 2 was top seller for quite some time. Iirc, Noun even said they had 100k unique players roughly each day. Besides that, steam is not the center of the universe when it comes to sales. There's alot of different retail stores & other websites. (There were alot of websites that offered a really good price) that you're not accounting for. I believe even it was Noun that said that CoH2 sold quite well in matter of fact. Noun has a vested interest in making everything around CoH2 sound great. Because Noun works for Relic. I remember hearing how great everything was at THQ. All players must connect through Steam. Currently, 6,000 are playing. Look for Sega and Relic to react accordingly. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: metacritic score 11 Jul 2013, 14:04 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Jul 2013, 13:56 PMSpanky Please point me to the exact location where that was pointed out, only thing i saw was "September 2012 through January 2013", did they stop selling after that? I doubt so, now please, next time give the real deal. the metacritic scores i references are all there. it took 5 months to sell 20,700 units. and there are 6,000 people online playing the game. the highest i've ever seen is 21,000 simultaneous users. look for future resources dedicated towards CoH2 to be kept to a minimum. And remember who said it first. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: metacritic score 11 Jul 2013, 13:41 PM it indicates how much future work Sega will authorize Relic to do on this game. had the game sold 2 million units then Relic would focus a lot more resources on the game. no need to get all upset and angry and use swear words just because the sales of CoH2 have been revealed. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: metacritic score 11 Jul 2013, 13:24 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Jul 2013, 13:16 PMCaeltos The co-op stuff in particular has drawn alot of my friends to play it, and I think that's really a strong selling point. sales have not exactly been stellar. it took 5 months in 2012 and 2013 to sell 20,000 copies. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-07-10-sega-claiming-nearly-USD1m-from-company-of-heroes-2-preorders usually the game has 10,000 simultaneous users... and that # is in steady decline. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: metacritic score 11 Jul 2013, 13:14 PM Jump back to quoted post11 Jul 2013, 08:58 AMMarcus2389 Now let's be honest, does COH2 really deserve the 5.8 it received? in the minds of casual RTS fans it is a 5.8. relative to other $60 RTS games it deserves this score. the game came out 3 years after SC2 and its graphics and performance on machines is horrible in relation to it. SC2 and C&C have really cool map makers and much better ladder support. Both had a longer and more in depth single player campaign with better cinematics. C&C3, RA3 and SC2 had 3 factions. you can not crawl inside the brains of casual fans and assess their "motives and feelings". all you can do is examine their actions. only 10,000 or so play the game at once. the casual fan has spoken. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: To Relic, Can we request for a ETA for leaderboard for COH210 Jul 2013, 17:59 PM Jump back to quoted post10 Jul 2013, 17:53 PMBasilone Well then it is a flawed analogy, because there was no such promise. i'm glad you pointed out Noun's analogy is flawed. In: Lobby