Profile of Inverse

You've never played CS if you think it has less of a learning curve than CoH2 does. Sure, you can just jump in and deathmatch easily, but competitive play is very difficult to get into and excel at. In spite of that, CSGO regularly has 100,000+ people searching for and playing competitive games simultaneously. These are exactly the sorts of people who would be willing to analyze their play for improvement and read online about it in their spare time.

Difficulty has nothing to do with it; as someone who has played both, CSGO is just a more gratifying experience. It involves a high degree of mechanical skill and a number of layers of strategic play that aren't immediately apparent, and even when you lose you feel a strong sense of accomplishment if you played well personally. CoH2 doesn't really have any of those (mechanical skill, layers of strategy, or accomplishment when you lose), some of which is the fault of the RTS genre while others are faults of the game's design.

Well, the attrition rate is fairly significant for a game like CoH2 that has microtransactions, because having more people playing your game gives you a larger audience to sell your DLC to.

Setting aside the fact that 4 million in raw sales is a fairly impressive figure, if we compare the attrition rate of CoH2 to that of CSGO using some public data, the difference is striking.

Since April 2014, the beginning of this sales data interval, CoH2 has increased its average daily players count from 3,100 to 5,472. With an estimated 4 million in sales, we can say that for every 1,686 sales of CoH2, it saw an increase of 1 player in its average daily players count.

Compare that to CSGO, which sold 6.4 million units and saw an average daily players increase from 78,881 in April to 239,935. That amounts to 40 sales per 1 average daily player increase.

1,686 sales per average player increase vs. 40 players per average player increase is a massive difference - if CoH2 had that rate, it would have 103,100 average daily players right now and be the third-most-popular game on Steam - and it shows that CSGO is much better at retaining its sales as active players than CoH2 is. The reason for that is no doubt complex and not easily summarized, but it's still an interesting fact to consider.

Nice initiative from Relic. That said, and with all the respect for Eli, imo Janne deserves more than anyone else in the community to be there, he alone modded COH2 to make features none of us would think possible (Spectator Mode, Capture the flag, Age of Heroes to name a few)

It's not really comparable to IQ because IQ isn't a credential. Ladder ranking, when read properly and when its shortcomings are accounted for, is the best credential you have after tournament results when it comes to competitive multiplayer games.

It's more like giving Stephen Hawking's opinion on matters of science more weight than mine, for instance, because Stephen Hawking has a wide variety of scientific accomplishments and I have none. We could both say the exact same thing, but people are going to listen closer when he's the one saying it.

Hey Alexandvar, wheres that player card? So far all i hear is excuses. I want you to prove me wrong, show me that you are a quality player who uses all armys, who is reasonably good to levies a judgement of balance.

http://www.coh2.org/ladders/playercard/viewBoard/0/steamid/76561198026003886