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Sounds like a two project studio that just had one of their big projects cancelled. That's the sort of thing that will cause a massive blow like this.

Looking around it's really hard to say that the Vancouver games industry is looking terribly healthy right now.

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Yep, I wonder how this will affect Company of Heroes development going forward

The console version releases next week. Regardless of how you feel about CoH on a console (personally I think it's another incredibly stupid move on Relic's part) we can only hope that the release will free up resources to fix up CoH3.

But that seems overly optimistic. I will keep playing CoH3 because despite its flaws it's still a fun game. But for now I consider it the next DoW3 and I expect support to be pulled shortly.

Is it really better than CoH2 though?

Yes and no. It has some improvements and it has some major missing pieces. But I have played CoH2 for a decade, I'm happy to move on.

It's interesting that you say "move on" when lots of the reviews I read said it was a step backward in terms of depth and graphics quality.

Ok but it's still different. I've finished with CoH2, 10 years was enough.

For sure :) ... now let me just fire up my games from 2003 lol

Serves them right for going the completely wrong direction with the Dawn of War sequels. (sarcasm)

But really, squad level combat with leveling heroes and skill trees? No, bigger scale! Let me smash companies of Imperial Guards against hordes of xenos.

Anyway, sad to see layoffs at yet another tech outfit.

Dawn of war 2 was excellent, 3 was hot garbage.

Age of Empires 4 is fine (I think it was done by Relic?). No idea about CoH3, hope it's good, I liked the first a lot, 2nd was ok.

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