You are missing the point. Since release. COH3 player numbers have been DECLINING. We have not plateaued yet…… it doesn’t matter how “close” the numbers are. COH2 retains the larger playerbase. The 10+ year old game is beating the BRAND NEW GAME????
Im gonna make a really "bold claim" now and say it's because the MP content & experience is in a very dry state with lack of maps and features on top of all the annoying bugs. But definitely not because of stuff like TTK or "game's too similar to CoH1"
This on top of the SP players leaving the game after finishing the campaign and you get such numbers. Of course I would have loved if CoH3 launched in a way better MP state so we could have kickstarted with much more player retention, but now it's CoH2 launch all over again basically.
CoH2 MP blew horseshit for the first ~6 months and it took almost a year to recover