COH 2 has more players than COH 3

[xX_COD_KID_Xx]

If you told me COH 3 would have less players than COH 2 pre DOW 3 I would have called ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ yet here we are.

[Spooie]

Not anymore

[7IПFΉ_]

I'll get COH 3 on sale but COH 2 or COH 1 for some is still the greatest RTS games out there for many years

[Bullied by Pigeon]

Well coh 2 had roughly 12k players before coh3 launch now its down to 5-6k peak, while coh3 is at 6-7k peak.. so yeah half of the players upgraded .. split player base in half.

[SydneyAngel]

As long as there are people playing coh2 all is right with the world as far as im concerned.

[ck00021]

Originally posted by SydneyAngel:

As long as there are people playing coh2 all is right with the world as far as im concerned.

+1

[ronghuang]

i played coh1,coh2 and coh3. I feel coh2 is best among the 3. I remember i play coh2 constantly without fail when it first launch 10 years ago.

[JASON BOURNE]

nah coh3 is best one

[KPSoulReaper]

Originally posted by Jesus Christ:

nah coh3 is best one

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So thankful we will still have CoH 1 & CoH 2 for years to come.

[Urinietszche]

Played CoH2 today and I didn't have a great time to be honest. People are still throwing game after simple fail you could recover from. Like all they care about is win/lose, not game itself. Probably most decent players moved to CoH3

[ShodaN]

Originally posted by Baby Feng Min:

Well coh 2 had roughly 12k players before coh3 launch now its down to 5-6k peak, while coh3 is at 6-7k peak.. so yeah half of the players upgraded .. split player base in half.

CoH2 didn't reach past 10k peak players for quite some time now and avarage player count has always been around a solid 5k something.

If you compare them side by side 2 and 3 already follow a similar pattern. Rough start, slow redemption, influx through expansions and eventually going free is how it's going to go.

That people obsess so much about player numbers, while at the same time pointing at CoH2, that was and remained niche as hell is pretty strange.

[romulancelt]

Originally posted by SydneyAngel:

As long as there are people playing coh2 all is right with the world as far as im concerned.

your are correct

[SturmTigerCobra]

All the free CoH2 giveaways and discounts did help keep the game alive despite the shortcomings.
With the CoH3 ingame store it's a safe bet that this game will also be heavily discounted to boost MTX and DLC sales.
So basically those paying full price for CoH3 got scammed.

[Aluminum Elite Master]

The key part of the original post:

'pre-DoW3'

Ever since DoW3 flopped, I've gone into Relic games with a lot more hesitancy.

Now, personally, I think AoE4 turned out really well... and it ended up without a cash shop... and it got two factions for free at the 1 year mark. To me, AoE4 is a really good game. That said, Relic's involvement there was only partial.

CoH3 I actually think has better combat and tactics than CoH2 did at launch, and has a handful of huge improvements going for it (auto-vaulting is a big one).

But CoH3 desperately needs full MP support (replays, observer mode, in-game stats and wins/losses tracking, in-game ladder, ranked match system, etc.).

And CoH3 also needs to re-work the Dynamic campaign, which, on paper, is a great concept, but was executed in a way that leaves it a bit threadbare and without really being a true sandbox. The strategic layer to that SP Dynamic campaign needs serious attention, and even the variety of battles and maps needs improving.

CoH3 just isn't getting worked on fast enough at this point, and the result is more that the playerbase is now divided still further between CoH2 and CoH3, rather than having most players jump to the new game. It's probably the worst-case scenario, actually, right now, both for players but for Relic, too.

[Wullgrim]

Nice game .. afk at the start and 0 punishment for leavers ! i would not make the same mistake to spend money for Company of ♥♥♥♥ 3

[KlugE]

Originally posted by Tsuda Tumiko:

Originally posted by Aluminum Elite Master:

The key part of the original post:

'pre-DoW3'

Ever since DoW3 flopped, I've gone into Relic games with a lot more hesitancy.

Now, personally, I think AoE4 turned out really well... and it ended up without a cash shop... and it got two factions for free at the 1 year mark. To me, AoE4 is a really good game. That said, Relic's involvement there was only partial.

CoH3 I actually think has better combat and tactics than CoH2 did at launch, and has a handful of huge improvements going for it (auto-vaulting is a big one).

But CoH3 desperately needs full MP support (replays, observer mode, in-game stats and wins/losses tracking, in-game ladder, ranked match system, etc.).

And CoH3 also needs to re-work the Dynamic campaign, which, on paper, is a great concept, but was executed in a way that leaves it a bit threadbare and without really being a true sandbox. The strategic layer to that SP Dynamic campaign needs serious attention, and even the variety of battles and maps needs improving.

CoH3 just isn't getting worked on fast enough at this point, and the result is more that the playerbase is now divided still further between CoH2 and CoH3, rather than having most players jump to the new game. It's probably the worst-case scenario, actually, right now, both for players but for Relic, too.

Actually no, age IV is doing poorly, it already suffers price reduction, its player base is small compared with age 2, they have to release 2 civs free, also manuñybpeoole complain about graphics, animations, details, unit variation etc, it lost 75% of its player base in less than one month, I played and is a age2 clone but with very simple mechanics, boring piece of ♥♥♥♥.

I tryed AoEIV on free week-end and it was devasted with artstyle and troops scaling . Game is simpla but there is no realism . Troops (dols) are somewhat bigger than some buildings, animations are inexistant and very poor and combat is a big joke and look like in 2d settings.

Coh 3 is graphicaly very detailed but camera view dont focus on models because they are too far and cartoony art of style ( the main problems are again animations: tanks going fast as hell and moving like a toys , when they get hit by 120mm pounder they dont even shake a bit). So everything move like toys, with bad sound, only 2 maps and bad VP system which ticks fast as hell. That is coh 3, an image of AOE IV screwed even more.