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How to revive DOW III
Cannibal0145
I purchase the game since annihilation mod came out, and beside all people had been saying the game is death and Im kind agree, but actually DOW III is a good game, but I don’t think it has the power as the other 2 last games had, probably was the devs removing everything that people like about DOW and create a monster between RTS and MOBA but I’ll say again it’s a good game, but the game really lack from a good player base even when the game is relative new so I proopose the next changes.
Becoming the game free to play: to be honest I don’t think relic can get more profit from the game that currently is, this could help the game have a solid player base and I said that because I found way more people playing DOW Soulstorm and Retirbution (elite) than Dow III
Get a similar system from the beta where you get all races but not all elites, maybe 6 or 5 and also in campaign only allow play until mission 7 that for me is one of the most fun missions, block de army painter players in the free content can only play with the default armies, and create some pack founders or something like that to unlock everything in this game.
Fix the servers, From people like me who live in south America I have a constant lag even when I play alone with the computer in online mod, but when I play solo it runs perfectly.
Im saying this because satrarcraft II get a lot of players and a lot of people who didn’t use to RTS is now playing, this culd be a good time to do the same with DOW III.
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Katitof
People suggesting F2P as a good idea to solve anything - please un-stupid yourselves.
F2P equals to MASSIVE GRIND mechanics, pay to win(which always makes its way in, regardless of what devs are saying), endless mandatory purchasable DLCs and all the different ways to milk your wallet or force you to progress so slowly, you'd basically have to play the game as a job to get anywhere.
The only people suggesting F2P in any way shape or form are the ones who are completely clueless and delusional about it.
It DOES NOT MEAN ITS FREE TO PLAY, IT MEANS ITS FREE TO INSTALL, THEN IT'LL DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO STEAL AS MUCH MONEY FROM YOU AS POSSIBLE, THAT IS F2P YOU'RE SUGGESTING!!!
TokyoDream
While I'm not against F2P on principle, I don't think that's what DOW3 needs. It would take a lot of time and effort to rework DOW3 into a F2P game. Assuming that goes smoothly, you still only have 3 armies, 2 MP modes and a short campaign that a lot of people don't like. F2P is the kind of thing you do when you have a lot of content. F2P shouldn't even be considered until DOW3 is overflowing with armies, MP modes and SP content.
ReubenUK
Relic tried the F2P concept with the CoH series and it never lifted off the ground, it's very unlikely that they would try it again (especially for a pre-existing game that has already been released).
Bersercker
Same here. Played it a lot.
I've read on some forum that the main reason was this: https://kotaku.com/5631947/company-of-heroes-dev-gave-his-life-to-save-his-family
Ololo111
I wonder why CoH2 isn't considered to be F2P. It was on sale each 2 months past half-year of release, let you "farm" things past the same point and has a lot of unlockables, including gameplay-related ones, for a price.
Ok, it's "nearly" F2P. Because, somehow, there were also some people who bought it for the full price.
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Actually, @Cannibal0145 , you call this game "monster between RTS and MOBA", you got it on -50% sale - would you buy these Elites yourself?
It may be me suggesting things, but it almost seems like you want others to pay for the expansion of the game you may actually like.
tritol
There is no reviving DoW3 because it isnt dead ...
Its same as every other DoW game and as every WH40k game, it looks cool, it plays cool but the community died in few weeks, but you can find game in 10 minutes even after several years and when you start searching at 2 in the morning ...
Thats how warhammer games work and who expected something different, some new ESport DoW3 championship with 10 million players daily is probably mad ...
No f2p will help it, it will bring even more spam and trash to the community and make even more people leave .. no turning into DoW2 will help it because DoW2 was total trash and was played only because of cool campaign and last stand mode and what it would bring back from group of DoW2 players it would lose because there are also people who dont like it...
Only thing it needs right now is more content and that means new races not map or bunch of free skins ...
AstartesUltra
There is so stupid things written in this forum :-D
1) The game is not dead and actually have more players than dow 1 & 2 (cf. Steam charts)
2) Dow 3 is a great game, far better than dow 2. Only dow 1 can hold comparaison. I really enjoy playing it with my friend and i hope there will be great new contents soon !
Cursed
You could do F2P with dow3 and sell skins to make your units look fancy.
Itd make sense if there was the player base as a large portion of Warhammer fans obsess about how the units look, and adding fancy bits to their army ingame would probably be an easy sell.
However, the game in it's current state probably wouldn't work because it's just not fun. That has to change first to get the existing owners to play it. New players will never stick around if there's not some sort of solid payer base.
As far as I'm concerned the game is just too clunky and boring to make any balance changes on their own bring it back to life the way it currently stands.
GeneralSkull
more lore talk and emotions from the charactors like in the previous games as explian by ThunderPsyker