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Interesting post.

Something I have noticed in the transition from vCoH to CoH 2 and from GR to CoH2.org is that the difference in the amount of content coming from the two sites.

In vCoH GR used to have a guide or tip out every couple of days, coh2.org has been very rarely releasing any content, although recently this seems to have picked up.

SNF 5 and streams are cool but as Noun points out not everyone has the time (or timezone) to follow those. Guides, strategies and tips can be consumed quickly and at will.

Perhaps more support for that kind of content could help?

I made a guide over at GR sometime ago, out of date now, ( http://www.gamereplays.org/companyofheroes2/portals.php?show=page&name=near-ultimate-osteer-guide-coh-2&st= ), that took me a ton of time, and never progressed past "part 1" because I was so underwhelmed by the response. Maybe I just suck at writing guides, but it would have been cool if it was able to be distributed more or supported a bit better. Then I would have definitely been encouraged to finish the series.

Edit: PS. I am also turned off creating community content by the huge negativity in the community. It seems any discussion in the forums quickly turns to Relic bashing and endlessly typing "MVGame" and "Kappa", which is just a beacon of which posts to ignore -.-.

I love this game. I don't mind expressing it. I wish others would too. That's why they are here reading this afterall.

Mean, celebrate with some CoH 2. Then get rowdy

Awesome stuff. I'll be watching if I'm free at those times. Great idea

I really enjoy CoH2 and I enjoyed SNF 5, it's the first SNF I watched. I hope there is a SNF6 at some point. I think the CoH 2 community is still growing and some of these community driven ventures have come before their time.

At this point in CoH2's development it's a little bit naive to think you can monetize community content to a meaningful degree. As others have pointed out, to be in the community content game you kind of need to have a passion for it rather than expect a reward. This is true of almost all games except SC2, LoL, and Dota. Many games still have great communities despite these restrictions.

So you can't blame AmiPolizeiFunk for getting out of that racket. Having blogged (on non-game related topics) and produced guides for CoH 1 and 2 for GR, I can tell you it takes a hell of a lot of work. I can only imagine live casting and organizing tournaments to SNF level would take infinitely more. When you have a job, family, study, and/or other hobbies there often just isn't time unless you are being substantially reward, which just isn't viable for CoH 2 at the moment.

Maybe in a year or two it might be possible to make money from these sorts of events, I hope so. It may be my imagination, but it seems like after the initial exodus of people who couldn't get on board with the game left, the community is now growing again. The game itself has just been getting better and better in my opinion.

Also, what Unshavenbackman said ...