Profile of BabaRoga

In corporate world all strategic decisions are made by guys with an expensive suit and carpark space reserved for their Porche, in front of HQ building. They tell people with less expensive suits what to do and how to do it, and so on.
When spreadsheets start having this color at the bottom they start shaking up staff and bringing in new blood to shake things up. If that doesn't work then its time to start cutting down expenses (staff) and squeeze as much money out of product before its insolvent.

Guy with the Porche doesn't give a flying fuck about your problems as long as the number at the bottom of his monthly accounts report is withing acceptable range.

Video gamers are expendable customers since they are prime target market only for few short years.

You and me will leave, some kid will buy Relic/Sega game next week/year and won't have any clue how 'bad' last game was.
It's cheaper for Sega to advertise next game heavily than spend money trying to fix game with problems.

Sega is big corporation not some small developer who actually cares about their product/reputation

Am I the only person who doesn't want this game to be a 'massive esport?' I want it to be *fun* Esports don't look fun to me. I'd be happy for it to be a small, niche esport.

RNG is fun. WTF, how did that happen? fun.

The people who don't like it tend to be the ludicrously competitive types who don't find anything fun unless it involves them winning.

They need to consider their lives.

I am not ludicrously competitive type, yet I still hate RNG.

Your comment also implies that reason game is fun is because of RNG.
Game can be just as fun without RNG deciding games randomly and doing things that are out of players hands.

That nullifies your entire 'fun' argument

OP's suggestions will not likely ever see the light of the day.

However, most of the problems in 3v3/4v4 would/will be eliminated with revamp of heavy armor meta.

Right now, super heavies trump everything else on the field but are practically impervious to anything other than opposing super-heavy armor.

Running into 5 At guns with super-heavy should be the end of it. Sadly it is not uncommon to take on 5 AT guns, destroy 2-3 of them and retreat for repair. Come back in 2 minutes with full health and stronger due to Vetting up.
Not to mention having blitz and smoke to make situation even worse.

OKW resource starvation has to be carried on into team games however.

Just making default tech armor useful and super-heavies less impervious to default units would go long way to fixing 4v4...

They need to market this game better. If they marketed the Western Front Armies they way they did with AA, there would be A LOT more people. Even my friends that don't play RTS say the trailers for AA really had them thinking about buying the game (most of them did).

Publicity and word of mouth will always defeat any amount of advertising.

For good publicity and favorable word of mouth advertising you need happy customers.

Trust me, as someone who knows thing or two about advertising and marketing. Throwing money on advertising product with bad publicity and unfavorable word of mouth is a losing battle.

We live in a world where anyone can comment and leave their opinion for someone else to read. Most people will see COH2 Advertising/Promotion and read comments bellow. Those comments are overwhelmingly unfavorable thus making someone think twice before purchasing game. Further research will almost guarantee 'move on' decision

There are no other RTS games?

Seriously tho, COH2 has come long way since release but most of great things that have happened to COH2 should have been there at release or were fixing the mess caused by some weird decision making Relic Devs have done.