Longtime COH player's disappointment

I know we've all seen this message before, but I never thought I'd get here. As someone with several thousand hours combined between COH and COH2, I didn't expect the series to upend itself so quickly. Guess I should have seen the writing on the walls with the playtests they had. Things felt unfinished but, reluctantly, I gave it the benefit of the doubt. I mean, they could fix these things before release - right, right? Wrong.

Did I initially think we'd end up like DOW3? No. Do I expect us to end up like DOW3 now? Yes.

I don't think any patch, update, or new faction is going to bring the player base back - at least not the long-time players. Feels like the COH2 launch, but much worse. I even refunded COH2 after playing the beta and seeing what a mess it was. Came back a couple years after and was hooked. I don't think that's going to happen here. Frankly, maybe end of year or Q1 2024 before we see them just pull the plug entirely.

Was it greed, incompetence, mismanagement, all of the above, that killed the game? Not sure, but what matters now is I'm not coming back unless this game improves the cadence of updates, reprioritizes features and bug fixes, actually tests the updates before releasing them, and commits to long term improvements.

Color me surprised if any of that happens.