COH2 sold 4 million units in 2014

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 15:56 PMAce of Swords

4 million sales, less than 10k stick around, I would consider this a huge failure in making a good game.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 16:41 PMkamk

Probably way more, like 200-500k active players.

Still quite bad though in comparison :/

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 16:49 PMREforever

How many of those figures are from people buying multiple factions to use on alt accounts? I myself bought 14 OKW factions during a Steam sale last year for alt accounts and other stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people did the same.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 16:49 PMAlexzandvar

Sale's don't actually correlate to how much money the developer team makes or has to hire people.

The money goes to SEGA, who will determine if Company of Heroes (or Relic) is worth keeping around based on it.

And if you don't know this, SEGA didn't buy Relic for CoH, they bought it for the unrestricted WH40k license rights.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 16:50 PMAlexzandvar

what

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 16:59 PMREforever

? It's pretty clear; I bought 14 factions(OKW and USF were 2 something each) to use for alt accounts and gave a few away to some friends. I mainly bought them for alt accounts though.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 16:58 PMMajorBloodnok

Source? Just interested $26 million seems a stretch for rights only.

? It's pretty clear; I bought 14 factions(OKW and USF were 2 something each) to use for alt accounts and gave a few away to some friends. I mainly bought them for alt accounts though.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 16:59 PMREforever

? It's pretty clear; I bought 14 factions(OKW and USF were 2 something each) to use for alt accounts and gave a few away to some friends. I mainly bought them for alt accounts though.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 17:01 PMAlexzandvar

For what purpose?

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 16:48 PMIpKaiFung

~100k - 180k more like, using those MWNL achievements 4% of the player base has the Snore, Snore, Total Bore achievement. Which I believe required you to win at least one game (vs ai, vs player) during the weekend.

I cant remember what you had to do to get the Romani Ite Domum achievement but 0.6% of the player base has it. Which would be 24k.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 17:12 PMREforever

For multiple reasons but the main one is so I can actually play a game, without the opposing player going into tryhard mode so he can beat me. It's even worse in 2v2, where quite a few of my losses were due to teammates asking "Are you REforever1911?" and when I said the one and only, they leave the game.

I also don't want people to know that it's me they've beaten, otherwise they'll just go onto CoH.org and post the replay...it should be the other way around.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 17:16 PMAlexzandvar

Okay this is a little insane. I see popular/good players all the time in randoms and they don't cause people to leave or throw their hats up.

And if someone beats you and posts a replay you should be able to handle it, I mean christ man this is kinda sad.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 17:28 PMAlexzandvar

please be trolling please be trolling please be trolling please be trolling

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2015, 14:30 PMGuyFromTheSky

"Dear boy?" What's that supposed to mean?

Perhaps you didn't see my elaboration, i edited it in afterwards. What i wrote was:



I grew up with a golden era of games that was not made to make shitloads of cash but to be an artistic outlet of the people making them. Games like Monkey Island, Doom, Commander Keen, Deus Ex, Worms, Omikron, Black & White, Thief etc, where made with a different mindset. I understand that the gaming industry has changed and is a completely different thing now. The games are way too advanced to make in your garage and cost way too much money to develop. However, i still don't think that just because a game makes lots of money it automatically should be seen as a great game.

Some of my fondest gaming memories comes from playing mods and they didn't make any money at all.