strong casual player base gives you a strong competitive base not because they are dependant on each other but because you just have a big player base.
A CoHO business model wouldn't give you a big player base as the concurrent players for CoHO wasn't even half the concurrent users for regular CoH.
Let's hope they aren't stupid enough to implement a CoHO business model again.
i agree. I think the online store would not add more players to the playerbase. Maybe Sega and Relic know that adding new players will be difficult to do