Indeed I know it because at that time I was deeply involved in the Fair Play Forum on Gamereplays and we had a strict contact with Relic CMs..Noun went away because he had his reasons (which is his business btw so I'm not going to tell you )..So yeah gg wp and go playing the beta on 25-28-29 March and let us know how it is
Anyways I am sure that stats in the closed beta will be erased once the game is officially released and from what I could read it seems like you will be asked to create a new account on CoH, which means to me that they erase stats on Company of Heroes too. That's why they want to make an online archive I guess
Just going on the suggestion from TrialBob a while ago that new maps might be able to get put in the rotation, is there any relation between that and the move to steamworks? (for example, if it was easier/cheaper to roll out patches when attached to steam)
Or for example like adding COH to Steam Workshop so that we can easily download and play custom maps and it would be fast and easy for you to make small patches to add maps in the ranked system? ^^