And once drunken, they keep at the game, very likely (if you see the orange player numbers), thats a huge advantage. I see a steady, light positive growth of player numbers.

So while we have very uneven monetary strenghts in those games, we have a similar player number (currently ingame, not only today, see the multiple blue graphs), so I think that advertising of the right way (soft, and introducing style, not a system override for the people) would work wonders.Д«ut the power that you put into that must be much lower than the effect. (I would like to give SO MUCH a picture of Lords of the Realm 2 here: You had a popularity slider, and if it went up, the population grows, and otherwise it stagnates or drops if you are unpopular). You can see pretty good the influence of advertising (and sold copies) in contrast to the popularity to determine where the success comes from. Company of heroes is a bit older (But red dragon, too), SD is a fresh release (Like DOW, and in the mid lies AoA).ДЄoA also has a high player count (the orange number), I would like to know how much it tells.Дo you know what popularity means? It means that the game is more likely to attract new players, or to be lived than unpopular games. I do my best not to compare apples with tomatos, but I think its interesting still. Of course, we are talking about different powers behind this games. (addition al to the above tell me if Im wrong) ( With 3 Mio that is much more likely though). Red Dragon has a good player/Owners ratio (even after 3 years) whereas DOW did have a huge drop.Д¬ompany of heroes also has a similar player number like Steel division, but also many owners and half of players. If you compare the ingame players, SD is similar to DOW. There are more players that actually play, but almost no comments in the forum. Maybe they should try to make a more 'casual' game that appeals to more people to get themselves 'known' or something.but even more promotion for a niche game would probably be wasted money.

Paradox community are mostly people that like to play on a strategic level, but the cooperation with them helped nevertheless. Steel Division is even more 'hardcore' from a mechanic standpoint and has the same 'problems' as Combat Mission + friends, they don't appeal to a wide array of players.ДЄlso Eugen Systems is not a big widely known studio, which leads to a smaller fanbase that would try a new game. How should they promote the game better than with the countless streams they did?ДЇar better promotion than they did for any wargame.and RD sold what? 500k copies? in 3 years. I think SD got enough promotion, the problem is the niche gameplay it offers.ДoW III is far more casual and just the title 'Dawn of War' is known fairly well due to it's predecessors.ДЄ new Company of Heroes would do 'good' even with minimal advertising, while 'Steel Division' is a new brand. I don't think more advertising could improve the sales much. McNash wrote:By this point it looks like not even a WW2 setting may compensate for the lack of advertising for SD (I believe this has always been the weak point of Eugen Systems games)

The division 2 sales