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The achievement numbers are really low for CoH2, what's up with that...only 30% of people have finished first campaign mission, 25% have played against AI once and 18.3% have played one automatch game...why on earth do so many people own this game without ever touching it? I mean it hasn't exactly been sold dirt cheap so far so they probably paid >8 euros for it.

Anyway, I'd assume that a decent percentage of the campaign achievements are by people like me who did play through the campaign once even though my interests lay almost purely in multiplayer. I'd never buy the game for a singleplayer experience, and so I'm not in any way interested in AA.

Well, it has been on free weekends, so if people have downloaded it but never played it, or played it once....


I know that here is populated by automatch players, and that such are the more vocal and dedicated players

However, looking at the numbers tells you that campaign and comp stomp are more popular modes until you get to really high numbers


Twice as many people have played 10 Campaign Missions than 10 Automatches (11.2 v 6.6)

But for 100 Missions it is:


Campaign .4%
Compstomp 1.7%
Automatch 2.0%


Which means that comp stompers are keeping up with automatches, but the campaign drops off because that's not that interesting to play 100 times.

Note also that the figures for TOW are really low, which is why we probably won't see new ones


Therefore:

A Campaign should sell well by itself, and if it has meaningful choices and replay value will do very well


Looking at the figures I would do what relic are doing - but I'd like to be real confident about my price point.


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It just happens to not be appealing to most of the people here; and that's totally ok because they are not the intended market

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Personally I think this has the potential to be awesome, tactical battles linked together with strategic choices?

I want this to work

Minesweeper I can imagine folding or collapsing.

Can't do that with a PTRS; it's enough of a handful that I can't see someone carrying that and a normal rifle


Quick image search suggests either no other weapon or an SMG

A PTRS is 2 metres long...


That would be some holster.

A simple "hey guys we are working hard on the release of Ardennes Assault and there will be fixes." from Relic would alleviate the forum from the constant new posts... but they won't/don't so the community is pissed. It's pretty simple really.

Ah yes, that would work

You mean when they streamed Observer Mode, which "The Community" had been asking for for ever, and next to no one appreciated that and wanted to talk about balance and bugs?


Or when everyone complained about PTW commanders, so they made everything go by random drop in war spoils and people complained about that too?


Things could be better, but I understand that "The Community" is fickle and entitled, and, to be blunt, doesn't represent most players