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It's just the number of people that have the game in their libraries. So if Warthunder shows up in your Steam library, it's being counted in these stats. That means every person who installs the game adds one to the purchased stat, and every person who uninstalls the game subtracts one from the purchased stat, since I'm pretty sure F2P games disappear from your library when you uninstall them.

Getting 6-pooled, proxy 2-gated, cannon rushed, proxy 2-raxed, or 4-gated makes the game easy to get into?

When you play CoH2 you don't have to worry about economy, workers, base building, expanding, buying detection, macroing, upgrades, etc.

For a player who's never touched an RTS before, SC2 is infinitely more complex and difficult to play than CoH2 is. Saying people prefer SC2 to CoH2 because CoH2 is more complex doesn't make sense, because CoH2 isn't more complex. It's different, sure, and it's less familiar to people who are used to traditional RTS games. But it's not even close to being more complex.

You have to worry about positioning just as much in SC2 as you do in CoH honestly, just in a different way. And micro in SC2 is mechanically much more difficult because you have a lot more units and therefore need a lot more actions to micro effectively, while maintaining your macro at the same time.

SC2 is far more complex mechanically than CoH2. It's not even comparable.

Are you purposefully ignorant? Because it's clear you haven't read a word I've said. And since when are Art Directors, Senior AI Artists, Data Analysts, Executive Producers, Financial Controllers, HR Coordinators, Associate Brand Managers, Cinematics Artists, Communications Coordinators, Community Managers, AI Programmers, or Tools Programmers responsible for gameplay engine bugs? There is a single Relic job posting right now related to general programming. Please get your head out of your ass.

Dota 2 has a team of 28, including designers, programmers, and artists; they have access to far less raw manpower than Relic does. More people are working on CoH2 than Dota 2 right now. Tell me again how important manpower is to bug fixing?

It literally took them months to find and fix that bug. The entire purpose of that blog was to show idiots that bugs are fucking difficult to find and fix unless they're extremely fucking obvious, in which case the bug probably would've been fixed before it went into production. There's no "example" to follow here, it's just one programmer giving a little insight into their debugging process and showing people why you can't magically fix shit overnight, which nobody who isn't in software development seems to be able to understand.

If you can't accurately and consistently reproduce a bug or find the single line of code in thousands where the bug occurs, you can't fix it. I work on systems with bugs that have been around for years, because they happen once every few months in multithreaded projects with hundreds of source files and thousands of lines of code and can't be reproduced. Unless you can reproduce the issue or get it to happen in a debug environment (which Valve essentially forced here by dumping so much debug info into the replays that they just needed a timestamp to get what was probably the equivalent of a complete memory dump at that exact time in the game), there's probably nothing you can practically do to solve it.

Also, adding programmers generally leads to a reduction in software quality, not an increase. Relic hiring more people would likely cause more problems.