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Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 1 Jun 2023, 06:59 AM Jump back to quoted post1 Jun 2023, 03:37 AMGrumpy Relic still has 300 or so employees. That still seems like an awful lot for maintenance releases. If pushing updates through Steam is as easy as it looks, I'd bet my PMP certification that a competent project manager could get the game fixed in a couple months with about 1/4 of those 300 employees. CoH3 is not the sole exclusive active relic game. There is AoE4 and SM2 development too and these people are not doing all 3 projects at once, this much I can assure you, they have separate teams. For all we know, CoH3 team could be 10 guys now. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 28 May 2023, 13:19 PM Jump back to quoted post28 May 2023, 12:16 PMKoRneY Lead sound director for coh1 was a female. Which is the game imo, that had probably the best overall audio Click the link for relic twitter I gave earlier. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 27 May 2023, 09:05 AM Jump back to quoted post27 May 2023, 08:44 AMVipper That is simply false. Companies make games and not a specific group of people. . Keep fucking dreaming. https://twitter.com/relicgames/status/1633606346477273089?s=20 https://www.ea.com/commitments/inclusion-and-diversity https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/company/about-us/diversity-inclusion https://www.dice.com/career-advice/activision-blizzard-faces-diversity-hiring-controversy https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/diversity/program/ List goes on, and on, and on, and on. Clown people are making our games on the "west". Meritocracy is dead in western AAA gaming. This is specifically why we have social messages constantly inserted into everything coming from western AAA and this is why everything is shit at release and ends up as shit abandonware within 1 year despite promisses of "years of support". Canada and US are completely obsessed and overtaken by these movements, entertainment and big tech is especially overrun and guess where all these AAA publishers and developers have their HQs located? In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???27 May 2023, 07:32 AM Every single developer dreams of recovery like No Mans Sky had, while every single publisher believes its OK to release the game in No Mans Sky release state, while lacking any kind of support and commitment to fix it. 6 months to 1 year, that's the lifespan of "life service games we will support for next 10 years", I'm really curious to see if it'll be any different for CoH3, but the trend is not promising much here. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 26 May 2023, 10:19 AM Jump back to quoted post26 May 2023, 09:56 AMOKSpitfire Isn't it much more likely that one, or several people in key positions just weren't up to the job at hand? 'Woke Culture' feels a bit too convenient. I'm sure plenty of studios and other similar industries lean in this direction ideologically but the people involved can still, on the whole, do their jobs. Go through Relics own twitter feed. At least a handful of employees got the job, because they had vaginas, not required skill and experience level. In: COH3 Central
Thread: How to save CoH3 from disaster ???26 May 2023, 07:16 AM But #1 will do absolutely nothing for multiplayer, at least the matchmaking part, which is driving wheels of CoH. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Merging Coh2 and Coh 3 for a better game.25 May 2023, 19:41 PM Jump back to quoted post25 May 2023, 19:19 PMmerlin Oh fuck that. Nobody would give a shit about a remastered CoH2 on the same old shitty engine. Ehh, nobody apart from the skeleton crew that keeps playing CoH2 for hours every day and will do so for the next 20 years. That's a pill which is hard to swallow to some here. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 25 May 2023, 11:42 AM Jump back to quoted post25 May 2023, 09:38 AMEsxile MP hasn't been Relic's focus for those 3 months, so I don't know how it can be qualified as dead unless unborn things are dead. Read the post I'm responsing to? The part where he ask about Iron Harvest? In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 25 May 2023, 06:59 AM Jump back to quoted post24 May 2023, 20:26 PMButcher Coh3s issues are far from unfixable though. A good interface, friends menu, player names, replay function and ranked mode should be very easy to fix and would go a long way. The same can be said for fixing the balance. If call in units were bound to tech a lot of the current balance issues would be fixed. The disturbing thing is that they haven't fixed those easy yet significant thigns three months into launch. As much as I dislike employees being fired, even a small team should be able to fix the major issues fast. Its not a problem of being fixable or not, its a leadership and priorities problem. You can't take an RTS game and turn it into life service. You can't prioritize monetizing the game before basic, staple QOL features even make it into the game. You can't expect retention if you hype up console release of that unfinished game before showing people that things they ask for are actually in active development. No one is stupid enough to believe in roadmaps to nowhere anymore. Jump back to quoted post25 May 2023, 06:20 AMmrgame2 Is iron harvest a good time sink? I need a backup when coh3 folds in 6 months. As lonely old gamer manning my boring shop, i go back home to play coh2 regularly. It helps to sharpen my mind and dexterity, but i see an end of an era. I am loss which time sink to switch over? I hear Diablo4 is coming but it is too clicky and monotone IIRC Campaigns are fine. MP is dead, tho might be a bit alife right now. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 24 May 2023, 10:59 AM Jump back to quoted post24 May 2023, 09:51 AMCrazyMarxist I have no hope left, this is the end of CoH, imo. At least, I do not know any positive examples how studios(or even software development companies in general) overcome such issues. Only thing I can imagine for this game to live if they let community mod freely. I've seen layoffs like that first hand, 20% of company was let go(the publisher I worked at), they fucked suddenly 100 people while boasting about great financial situation just weeks earlier. Most of the people who were let go found much better jobs relatively fast, publisher itself also changed direction a bit and are doing ok now. Tho people who remained had massive workloads for quite some time. Shortly after I've decided to look for greener pastures, because it wasn't 1st layoff and I wasn't going to wait and find if they are going to go for 3rd one or not, they have proven to be irresponsible at top level. In: COH3 Central