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Jump back to quoted post17 Nov 2014, 21:50 PMDonnieChan

for me, coh1 has some design and gameplay flaws which made it completely unplayable for me:

3. Rep Bunkers: always funny to play against a sim city of about 10 rep bunkers + a bunch of pumas and tanks

2. Vehicle pushing: the mechanic of bike pushing guys to prevent capping, jeep pushing out of cover and the king of all: the m10 squishing grens and knights cross. really, it didnt really matter if you thought about laying traps or something. the m10 was always able to drive onto shreks and prevent a loss. abuse beats tactic
and # 1
Snipers!

really, this game was actually about having more snipers than your enemy. when you have more you win. that simple.
a unit which can insta kill, cloak has far sight and range...this comepletely breaks the whole gameplay.
the only counter was a countersnipe. a mechanic which was totally depending on luck.

Jump back to quoted post15 Nov 2014, 01:09 AMSturmTigerGaddafi

It is true that coh2 player base fluctuates quite a lot. That is due to Relic's failure with balance. After every patch there is a two-fold increase in player count, but a month after approximately the same number leaves.
If you take a closer look at the monthly average numbers you can notice that the patch fluctuation is starting to get smaller over the period of December 2013 to November of 2014. People are starting to stick around in greater numbers (aka Relic gets better with balance).

On the other hand, if you compare periods of mass exoduses of coh2 player base with vcoh player base you can notice that only a small portion of dissatisfied coh2 players go back to play vcoh. Great majority leaves coh franchise all together. It is quite possible that most of these "leavers" have never played vcoh, nor do they plan to.

Vcoh player base is pretty stable of around 1.6k on monthly average; however, if you take a look at the peek count you will notice that vcoh never came close to 4582 it had in May of 2013.

Coh2 averages ~4K players per month, but given a good patch, it has no problem coming close to the original peek of 20k it initially had.

The bottom line is that Relic needs to keep players in franchise and the only way to do it is to spend resources on a product that has potential to bring in the new players and keep current player base. In this case that can be only done with continuation of coh2 patch releases.

EDIT
Sources:
VCOH stats: http://steamcharts.com/app/228200#All
COH2 stats: http://steamcharts.com/app/231430#All