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You're assuming that 4k play 12 hours a day, 2k of which play 24 hours a day. Just because 4k players are playing at a given time doesn't mean all active, regular players are playing at that time.
I'd say a dead game is when there is not one single person playing it.
I second this. Look at natural selection 2, it averages 200-500 players daily, yet at all times of the day I can jump in and play on a 20/20 server and experience the game how it was meant to be played. CoH2 averages at least 3-10 times that number. Its far from dead. Just because a competitive scene of a game isn't bustling, doesn't mean its dead. Players need to drop the "EVERYTHING MUST BE ESPORTS" mentality.
As far as the competitive scene goes, compete if you enjoy the game and are willing to put in that time. If you want to compete for the sake of esports/winning or to make a career out of, there are far more established games than CoH2 that will fill this desire. LoL, Dota2, CS:GO, SC2, Smite, SFIV etc.
As awesome as it would be to have a surge of new players, there is nothing stopping people simply creating new accounts and/or using proxy IPs to avoid ip bans (if even such a thing occurs under valve or relic's servers) and cheating. Whilst Relic claims there are no currently detectable map hacks for the time being, so long as there are people playing this game, coders who sell cheats will find a way to make cash from its popularity.
This wouldn't work for Relic as a business model in its current state. Look at CS:GO, Dota 2, LoL, War Thunder etc.
CS:GO/Dota 2 thrive on their steam skin market economy and case unlocks. Afaik LoL makes its money from unlocking heroes through a pay gate if players don't want to wait, as well as selling skins.
CoH2 has no such cash dump, there is a set of commanders, skins and ToW DLC which all can be bought for something like $150 USD, perhaps more or less. While it would be awesome to be free to play, I don't think its financially feasible for Relic to make it so in its current state.
Yeah these definitely need to come back. Honestly I think Relic really underestimated the power of rank badges/insignia, whatever you want to call them, that drive a person to keep playing and improving themselves. Leader boards with a rank attached to your player card just aren't the same as being branded with a particular badge or "league" of players.
I was suprised when they decided not to add it for CoH2, when they had already done it for CoH1, one of the first games to do so as well.
Here are some other hugely successful games that use leagues and rank insignia that drive players to play more.
You guys remember why we don't have levels or even stars anymore on the loading screen?
For exactly the same reason we won't have this.
Relic can learn a lesson or two from Valve. They solved this problem in CS:GO where ranks are ONLY displayed in a lobby or on the scoreboard if they are on your friends list. In addition to this player ranks are only shown once the match has finished. It prevents people from belittling people during mid-game or pre-match over their rank. Of course anyone who is determined enough can just look up your steam ID.
Most of the original people are working on it, I don't see the problem here. From the 1 or 2 paragraphs I read about "This isn't just a HD release, its a remastering" fluff they released to the public, I am actually pretty excited for the game.
Be honest about what you are really angry about in your life then link your blog, I promise to leave a comment to make you feel better.
I want André Sogliuzzo back too, he was great as the Engineers, and he was also awesome as Major Strickland (Crysis).
Engineer unit was probably my favourit voiced unit, after that both snipers. "Heart or head, either way, jerry's dead." - "I could have been a luftwaffe ace you know?"
Honestly a lot of the writing and even the actual voicing in coh2 is sub par compared to coh1. Its not even nostalgia talking, a lot of the lines are just uninspired and boring, not to mention indian sounding grenadiers. Then again I don't meet many people with german accents so I guess I'm not the best judge on that, v0v.
Here's hoping western armies are more interesting, and better cast.
Yeah AFAIK bug has been around for a while, at least a month plus, I remember watching Jamin on stream and he did the same thing, except T2 and he lost the fuel as well lol.