Profile of Highfiveeeee

I haven't played as soviets for about half a year since today.
The last game I played against this dude was as American and he pwned the hell out of me.
This time I was also playing very badly but I won.
Why?
Because ISU.
Sure I have won but I wanted to see this thing from the view of the player who has it.
I lost 2 of them because of my own stupidity.
So what?
You can get another one.
Just broken.

2 CP Supply Convoy
sWs trucks now arrive immediately whenever one is destroyed (passive)

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6 CP Desperate Driving
sWs gain a "ram" ability that works basically like the T-34 ram (15 munitions to activate)

No shit I'd find these two some kind of nice.

Lets take WFA as an example "WHAT BUILDABLE KINGTIGER AT T0? OMG RELIC NAZI FANBOY I WONT BUY".

If this happened 10 times more people would even have heard about WFA.
The one guy who rages about it doesn't matter. He probably would have bought it nevertheless.

Relic does not need the control you mentioned.
They do the worst thing you could imagine for ages now because they absolutely have no idea how to thrill their audience.

As stated in the headline.
I studied communication design so somehow I can relate to some marketing techniques as well but I honestly don't get how the NDA (the 'rule' that testers from new CoH2 content are not allowed to share the new stuff they have seen) should increase the player base excitement.

Let's take a look at other games.
When Call of Duty is going to release a new game or a DLC they will tease it months before.
Be it gameplay teasers, trailers or simply some infos about the upcoming product.

This creates excitement because the fans know what is coming at them and they can thrill themselves thinking 'oh my gosh this is going to be so awesome, I need it!' When Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 was teased some years ago I thought 'holy shit that AC130 is coming to multiplayer I cannot believe it' just from seeing a 2 SECONDS CLIP in a trailer. For that reason I was so excited that I got the game on the day it came out.

Now back to CoH2. The NDA chokes off every single spark of excitement because you literally are not allowed to talk about it.
What is the reason behind this? Does Relic want to be 'mysterious' about their content hoping to increase the anticipation with the lack of informations?
Honestly everyone here knows it doesn't work. When League of Legends introduces a new champion there will be at least some mysterious image on the starting screen to allow the community to riddle what is going to happen.
I always think that Relic wants to create something like Area 51 or Roswell by keeping their stuff top secret.
But the sad truth is that nobody cares. The CoH franchise is too small (with about average 4.500 players online) that someone would really invest a lot of time to reveal those things.

At the moment every one knows somehow that the Observer Mode is coming to the game. But there are ZERO images out there showing the interface or functionality of this feature. How should we be excited if we have no reason to excite ourselves?

It was the same before WFA came out. Ok there was a teaser that showed some new units (that was done well, Relic) but then nothing else happened UNTIL THE GAME CAME OUT. How would someone want to preorder something he has only seen in a minute-long video?

I also was in the Alpha testing phase and I was so excited about all the new stuff that I really felt uncomfortable that I was NOT ALLOWED to share my excitement with anyone. What should happen, my god? If someone had leaked that there is a Königstiger in the add-on would it have destroyed the excitement for a upcoming release of WFA? Do you fear the critics about the decisions you made when creating a add-on for the game?
No!! That would have been the best marketing thing possible: Viral marketing. Honestly, I had to make a friend of mine come over to my place and watch me playing on my monitor to show him something about the game (did I somehow broke the NDA? Lol). Good thing was that he also plays CoH2 and was some kind of interested but other people would simply have said 'Yeah, whatever, let's play something else' because they didn't even have the chance to delight themselves because there was absolutely nothing that gave them reason to.

There is no bad marketing because even bad things make people talk about something.
The only bad marketing is no marketing at all.

You plan on an upcoming singleplayer content called 'Ardennes assault'?
Good luck selling it with those strategies.

Source was http://steamcommunity.com/app/231430/discussions/0/616189106510681981/ but seems like the thread is dead.

Yeah probably new commanders after Ardennes Assault will be for OKW/US that is definitely true
Hopes and dreams somehow crushed haha :/
But maybe it's just some thing like the no step back commander for the soviets