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Jump back to quoted post2 Sep 2020, 05:09 AMSturmtigerCobra

CoH2 going eSport?

This tournament money has less to do with CoH2 eSport and more to do with Sega's marketing budget (influencer marketing).
Relic is not a profitable studio without Microsoft money from AoE. That is just a fact.
Studio management hired 4 community managers for AoE4 while CoH+DoW game franchises have zero.


Relic management & self-preservation in a nutshell. Focusing on 'keeping the ship afloat' whatever the cost may be:


Relic employee review 2020:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Relic-Entertainment-Reviews-E533032.htm

This studio might end up losing both DoW + CoH IP but management don't seems to care because Microsoft got their back for whatever reasons that may be.
So how do Sega higher ups justify investing this tournament money into a 7 years old game and a studio with too much dead weight?.
2+2=4.

GCS2 Grand Final currently have 831.392 YouTube views which is more than most CoH trailers on Relic's own YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/CoHOfficial/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid

Report: EA Paid Ninja $1 Million To Play 'Apex Legends', Which Is Way Too Little:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2019/03/14/report-ea-paid-ninja-1-million-to-play-apex-legends-which-is-way-too-little/

Influencer marketing is the future of game marketing. If done right, influencers is the new access media that sell games.
Sega/Relic also tried this by hiring Geoff 'iNcontroL' Robinson (RIP) to play DoW3.




sources:
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/9-things-we-learned-from-the-2018-user-generated-content-ugc-report/513245/
https://www.tintup.com/blog/38-mind-blowing-stats-effectiveness-user-generated-content/

I'm happy Sega is investing in CoH's streaming community. But no, this is not CoH2 going eSport.

Jump back to quoted post20 Jul 2020, 06:37 AMPorygon

Nah, I used to play Zerg like crazy back in early 20s. Now I can't even play Starcraft.

Jump back to quoted post23 Jun 2020, 08:39 AMKatitof

Because you don't fix what is intended.