COH1 support, great, but with COH2 soon to be here ? not sure it's great.
I totally understand why you guys are happy, but I think they are shooting themselves in the feet.
Basically, when you have a game sequel, you can separate the game 1 hardcore fans in 3 parts :
- those who will love game 2
- those who won't like game 2 but will play it, trying to persuade themselves that game 2 is better
- those who will hate it and stay on game 1.
But if you improve the game 1 with game 2 features, I fear that some people who would have moved to game 2, will stay on game 1.
Call me devil's advocate if you want, but I rarely saw a sequel with very high expectations doing better than the previous game. The only solution to "force" hardcore fans to move to game 2 is to stop support on game 1.
That's a crappy solution! Making game 1 bad force someone into game 2?! If game 2 isn't good enough to convince someone to move, then its the fault of game 2, not game 1...
In another scenario, game 2 is just different than game 1, so hardcore fans of game 1 won't move, but new hardcore fans will appear in the life of game 2....
There was no COH commmunity before COH1, and still we came together.