Relic Entertainment (Company of Heroes) is leaving SEGA
PanzerCute
Member
It was a stupid acquisition imo.
recursive
Member
I just received an email a out this from Sega today. Weird.
MiguelItUp
Member
I guess Sega wasn't in a rush to talk about it, lol.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I think the acquisition made sense at the time, and I get why Sega would've wanted to do it. Shame it didn't work out. The quality of the games dropped pretty far from where it began in the relationship.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
I don't know about that. The first Company of Heroes was a beloved hit, and Relic released a sequel half a year after Sega bought them out. The Dawn of War series also had a lot of potential, the first two titles were well-received.
With how well Creative Assembly had done for Sega with their Total War series on PC, I think at the time adding another strategy game developer to their portfolio would have made sense.
Hero of Spielberg
Member
A shame they fucked up DoW 3 so hard.
Also, I feel like they needed to do a COD Modern Warfare move with CoH too to re-energise the series. I think most people are WWII'd out.
STARSBarry
Gold Member
I think that might actually be due to SEGA, as after the acquisition you had all the weird cash shop shit suddenly showing up in their games from CoH2 onwards. Some of which DID effect gameplay like locking the commanders (and therefore units) behind premium currency vs the old C&C generals style tree system you picked for free at the start of a match.
Every game under SEGA has had a system like this, where there is some sort of shop with special units locked behind it, the issue is the game is then designed around this system and fucking sucks. CoH 3 did this with their first DLC but the pushback from the now very limited playerbase made them finally after a decade of this shit, backtrack and release the commanders for free. The issue is no one is playing, they didn't gain players back with this move.
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Fat Frog
I advertised for Google Stadia
It's a minor news since the euro Sega Studios remain stable and strong.
What is more important for old Sega nuts ?
Sega lately hired hundreds of japanese staff for the RGG Studios, AM2 (within division 1 with the Yakuza studio)Atlus, Sonic Team, Division 3(staff from PSO, Crazy Taxi, Daytona and various studios from old Sega)...
On top of that, they also opened a large studio in Sapporo helmed by OG Sega Sport and OG Phantasy Star teams.
What is more important for old Sega nuts ?
Sega lately hired hundreds of japanese staff for the RGG Studios, AM2 (within division 1 with the Yakuza studio)Atlus, Sonic Team, Division 3(staff from PSO, Crazy Taxi, Daytona and various studios from old Sega)...
On top of that, they also opened a large studio in Sapporo helmed by OG Sega Sport and OG Phantasy Star teams.
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IbizaPocholo
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