Open alpha testing of the 5.0 HD mod (online lobby).

Shutting our eyes means deceiving ourselves most of all: SOD is a dead game, HOTA has 10-15 times more players (check the HOTA and SOD lobbies), I can't understand how 90 percent of the tournaments in the HW forum are in SOD. The time will come when we need to ask players what they prefer: HOTA or SOD. Everything is OK, SOD doesn't have much time left.)))

To be more precise, at the moment, there are 8.5 to 8.6 times more HOTA players than SOD players.
And who knows how things would be if Online Hotseat (OH) had been available in SOD for three years and a free lobby for a year, and if all of this had appeared in HOTA 2-4 months ago, and on a paid basis.
This is, of course, not a decisive factor, but I think it is very significant.

And yes, the proportion of newbies, casual players, and those who play online in a union against computers in these camps is different.