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So, just to add to that. Since you mentioned Dota, you can open the page with the list of games, and you'll see that Smait has 2.5k players online, Paladins has 2.8k, and so on. Surprisingly, some unknown game called Hero's Land has almost 9k. Yes, Dota has 500k, but it and League of Legends are the only ones in that range, which says something...
And if you look not at the raw numbers, but simply at profitability (because that's supposedly the point of any business), then there doesn't seem to be a problem at all.
Rather, your statistics suggest that it should be extremely profitable to make games like The Witcher 3: people are still playing it (and therefore buying it), even though the cost of supporting it at this stage is zero. To get even half of The Witcher's online numbers, strategy games, and even online games, have to constantly maintain servers, release patches, and create additional content. But again, this could be a statistical outlier; not all single-player games achieve The Witcher's level of fame.
And if you look not at the raw numbers, but simply at profitability (because that's supposedly the point of any business), then there doesn't seem to be a problem at all.
Rather, your statistics suggest that it should be extremely profitable to make games like The Witcher 3: people are still playing it (and therefore buying it), even though the cost of supporting it at this stage is zero. To get even half of The Witcher's online numbers, strategy games, and even online games, have to constantly maintain servers, release patches, and create additional content. But again, this could be a statistical outlier; not all single-player games achieve The Witcher's level of fame.