Profile of MilkaCow

Still waiting for the "Patch fix" announcement from Relic that turns out to be an Aprils Fools joke

They do not care (strategically) how many people are currently playing this game, they only care how many buy it.

Every company does this, as you need to create income somehow. As long as the game is not heavily monetized on DLC, like Free to Play titles are, the sales are the main source of income. Sadly Relic seems to be putting too much attention on it, to the degree it might be hurtful.

Ardennes Assault was labeled as massively successful by Relic due to the sales. It was initially well received by a lot of the community, but this faded as several underlying problems got visible, yet not fixed. I don't think too many people will today say it was a good expansion, but rather that like CoH2 it has good potential.

With such a behavior they create the problem that they have low retention rates and cannot really create a fanbase that sticks with them. Sure, they get sales, but how many people will buy subsequent games afterwards? Especially in the strategy game market, which has a lot of older or long time players, this deprives them of their audience over time.

Their internal structure seems to be well outdated with how players want to interact with developers today, as well as having a lot of red tape with greatly decreases throughput. And never forget to go to the meeting to schedule the meeting to choose the next meetings topic. #Dilbert

The game is constantly improving, that's pretty much an irrefutable fact. If you look at the great improvements this game made from release on (just to list a few: Battle servers, Obs mode, weapon model overhaul, veterancy overhaul, ...) the game now plays completely different than it did back then. It's just not improving as fast as I and a lot of other people would wish. Similarly the communication. I wouldn't say it's at it's 'peak' right now, but was a lot better in spring / summer, but it was certainly getting better for a long time.

This slow improvement is sometimes kind of infuriating. The game has a huge potential, but it does not use it. This disparity of what the game could be and how is it, it hurts. Normally I would therefor suggest people to just take a break - play something else for half a year or a year and then come back, if there was not one problem. It seems that every major patch decreases the performance further and further. If I compare how the game ran in the beta (4v4 on all high except AA worked for me) and how it is now (pretty much all on low and it's still lagging in 4v4 if there are lots of explosions) it seems that if you wait you should also improve your equipment in the mean time.

The biggest problem in my opinion is still the difference between what people want and what Relic thinks people want. The recent history stream about Ardennes Assault - I guess some people like that, but in general the major audience are gamers. I wonder why such a thing is getting advertised, but then something like the observer mode isn't. From release until the recent CoH2.org tournament there was nothing to promote it, but this tournament finally showed it's capabilities to the world. Now comparing the average viewers (History stream: 40, CoH.org tournament: 1300) I would say it should be pretty obvious that there is a higher demand for such well organized and broadcasted tournaments than history streams. It's a game - if people want to learn history I would advise them not to try to learn it from a game, especially considering the original SP campaign ;D

Whatever guys...

MERRY CHRISTMAS
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I'm going to make love to this sweet sweet person.

Also Twister.

And no, I'm not kidding. (:

Luvnest or Twister. I really don't care which of those wins, as long as they pay for more drinks with the money

5 more days till ze epic orgy \o/