Zimerius: Just visited the steam page for Company of Heroes 3 and was surprised by the amount of negative feedback. This seems to fair in a similar direction as Dawn of War 3 did. You would expect that companies learn, right?
I mean, if close combat misses a beat as the small indie company they are (The Bloody First) in a sense it is not so ridiculous as seeing all those major companies failing....... in a row?!?!

Or is it just as bad? The fault being more of a generational switch in leadership (and maybe even goals, like, who knows... the company has its money) which, in that case, can't be addressed as a fault any more????

Maybe it's just stretching the reasoning, like deep down i hope some perfectly explainable reasoning can be found lying at the base of so many, in what seems, misguided management

Lord_Kane: most of the og relic people are at blackbird interactive now.
making Homeworld 3

so CoH falls and Homeworld rises.

Ancient-Red-Dragon: Seems like the good devs who made the name for the company left many years ago, and now new & bad devs have replaced them and are riding on the coat tails' of the good devs under the same name, even though they are not actually the same at all.

Such things happen all the time, BioWare is a great example of exactly that same thing.

anzial: Homeworld was the original Relic game long before CoH. In fact, I bought into CoH because of the first Homeworld lol
Hopefully, they won't drop the ball with HW3.

ssling: That's by the way is something that always astounds me how much importance is still attached to company name. Compare it to film world where generally no one cares which studio is producing a movie, what people are interested in foremost and on which they build they curiosity are names of director, actors, for some also writer, photographer, producer. That's much more sensible than "I'm so excited because this company made great game 30 years ago!".

I think it actually was closer to this in the 80's/90's when gaming industry had the actual names that meant something, like Meier, Carmack, Bleszinski, Romero, Sweeney, Roberts, Jensen, Wright, Molyneux, Garriott, Fargo, Schafer etc. but later designers and creators became largely anonymized in favor of company logos.

ReynardFox: Well that's a crying shame, I'm not an RTS player in any way but COH1 & 2 were the only games in the genre that truly appealed to me.

Amclass: God, I miss those days too. It was much easier to track which games to be excited about when it was the people that mattered and not the publisher/developer/franchise name. I think Schafer might be the last of the generation of the creators with wide name recognition in the gaming community,

Tokyo_Bunny_8990: There is still some top developers like Hideo Kojima or Shinji Mikami to keep an eye out for imo. I agree its about the people, not the studios and it has been harder to track the superstars. All feel that some people get superstar status despite not actually being superstars.