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Guns are harmless and are not the problem.
People are the problem, people are idiots and giving idiots access to firearms is a bad idea.
Is it easier to control the idiots or the firearms?
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Hello everyone!
It bums me out to bring this news to you all, but today is the last day of my contract with SEGA. After the death of THQ and the SEGA acquisition, I was brought on board via contract to continue marketing the game and see it to launch. Having successfully launched the game and given it a month of support, my contract is wrapping up and I'll be moving on.
I'm not ready to discuss my current opportunities and next steps, but it's a safe bet to say you guys haven't seen the last of me. Either with CoH2 or elsewhere, I'll always have the CoH2 blood in me, and I'll stay involved as the game and community continues to grow. This game - and to a greater extent, the community - has changed my life. And I do mean that.
It's been an absolutely wonderful year with all of you, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything you guys have done. You've been an intelligent and passionate community, supporting our game and efforts through the darkness of THQ's final days, to the final push to launch with SEGA. I've said it before, but the efforts of the community talking to SEGA and eventually getting me the job with them was a monumental experience that brought tears to my eyes. I'll never be able to thank you guys enough for that!
So once again, thank you everyone for all that you've done. It's been one of the best years of my professional life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I'll see you all on the flip side! Stay in contact and keep being awesome. I raise this glass of Sam Adams to all of you, the greatest gaming community a manager could ever hope to have.
Cheers!
-Bobby "Lynx" Miller
Copied from the post I made on the official forums. Just wanted to say that you guys rule, and I consider many of you to be personal friends by now. Thanks for all that you guys have done, sticking with me through all sorts of craziness. Never give up in pushing along CoH2, dedicated community members make it happen! Thanks a ton, everyone. 
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1 second delay fixed, such good news.
Great work Relic, keep it up. |
That is an inaccurate statement, and an over-dramatization of the issue at hand. Some Russians are upset about it. Honestly, Metacriticuser scores are not an accurate depiction of an entire country's opinion. I'll change my mind if a public official from the Russian Federation releases a statement, otherwise, it's just an isolated internet wave.
Relic has never downplayed the Holocaust, or the Nazi Regime. A lot of players in vCoH had, respectfully, the ignorant opinion that the Panzer Elite represented the SS. This is completely unfounded.
First off, the SS represented an "elite" only in terms of government acceptance. Most experienced Wehrmacht Generals actually disliked the SS, their tactics, and their behavior in the battlefield. The SS was so overzealous in their operations during the Invasion of Poland and other fronts, that some Wehrmacht Generals actually wanted them removed altogether, because they weren't helping.
From what I always observed in the game, the Panzer Elite always seemed like Panzer Divisions alone, which were composed of Mobile Warfare (Halftracks, PanzerGrenadiers and Medium Tanks). The Waffen-SS had its own Panzer Divisions, but they were only a fraction of what the Wehrmacht actually had.
The campaign in Relic's game presented the stories of two brothers, in a Panzer Division. That doesn't mean it approved of the Reich's policies against ethnical, religious or sexual diversity.
WW2 was a very dark period of human history, and to judge it with linear, non-objective thinking is to shoot yourself in the foot. Many of the worst things in the human condition surfaced during those years, and many of the world's technological improvements that we enjoy to this date derive directly from the Axis war effort. It doesn't mean that what the Axis did was right, but to judge that period solely on that is not only ignorant, it is dangerous.
Patriotic sentiment is not bad in and of itself. Patriotic Zeal, accepting your country is right beyond all doubt, is the first step towards making the same exact mistake.
I think that is the most intelligent thing I have ever read on a forum. |
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User metacritic score is irrelevant.
If people feel offended by the story they should a voice it correctly and not trash a whole game.
The course of action they have taken is only going to make things worse and not change anyone's perspective on the Russian campaign in WW2.
Was Relic aiming to make a factually accurate campaign, I don't know. Was this the writers vision for the story, should we have to alter some ones creative vision if it is not meant to be based on facts.
These are questions that arise time and time again. |
Surely you didnt read the critics and didnt follow the game from alpha to release. I wont rephrase it for you since its all over this webside.
I did not play the alpha, I played some of the beta.
I have read a lot of the criticisms and some I completely agree with, the networking is horrid at the moment, but I have also read quite a few posts comparing COH2 to COH in terms of mechanics and gameplay.
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Well some people are not that patient enough to wait untill CoH2 have been updated enough for it to be more enjoyable.
I did buy CoH2 about 2-3 weeks ago, and since then i have only played a total of 3-4 matches maybe and quickly after those i've lost complete interest over CoH2.
There is nothing in the game that drags me back into it.
I have no idea if or when they will make the game better and more interesting but by that time, i will probably not give a crap about CoH2 but if they fixed vCoH, i would most likely start to play it again.
Also, i've been keeping an eye out on steam statstics when it comes to CoH2. About a month ago it had about 10k players, and now the numbers have droped to 5-6k, the same number vCoH had almost daily when it was on the old servers.
So goatsecks is right, they will not fix vCoH because there will be people switching back to vCoH from CoH2, and it will have its early grave in Stalingrad.
Remember steam statistics do not represent the sales amount.
Releasing a game in July is nearly always a bad idea and I think the game should've been pushed back to late september. |
It seems you didnt understand the critics made about coh2. It was not criticism about being different to coh1, but what relic created doesnt work as a game.
Btw. people still hate steam...
I think relic did mismanage their "roadmap" and can´t make everything happen, what they promised. Funding might be too low too, you never know what is happening behind the curtain... However this will make players prevent spending money on this company any further.
Steam was the spawn of evil when it arrived, now it is a beloved part of PC gaming for most people and changed and some say saved PC gaming.
People are complaining that COH2 is not a polished as COH1, Relic could have just reskinned COH1 and sold it as COH2 and then people would be complaining that it is too similar or a cheap reskin.
What Relic have created is a different game, a game which does work but has some bugs like all games ever launched.
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I'm glad Relic took a different approach to COH2. Not trying new ideas, is the opposite of what video game development should be about.
If developers never took risks new games and genres would have never evolved or been created, the industry would stagnate.
People resist and fear change because they don't understand it or it feels different from the norm, it is true in every medium and real life.
While some may find COH2 hard to adapt to many new players will pick up this new game and come to love it, like me and my friends.
Remember how everyone hated steam in the beginning and the idea of an internet based CMS.
People also need to understand that Sega are probably calling shots on where Relic's resources are focused and it makes sense that they focus on their newest game first. |
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