Let's take your portal as an example. Do many new players come to play on it? Probably not that many, otherwise you wouldn't be here.

I'll answer only to these words for now, and then I'll try to calm down, analyze what you said, and respond.

Personally, as well as Forrest, I don't care how many new players come to our portal. I've long since formed a circle of players that I play with, and I don't need any more.

I don't know about the others, but I personally got involved in writing here because I feel bad that many people play and don't even know that there is a much more enjoyable version of the game, they are simply unaware. I draw this conclusion based on my own thoughts and the words of my friends: "How did we even play this SoD before?"

But it all boils down to one catch: You play on TE and don't want to leave it, we play on SoD, and we also don't want to leave it.

We played SoD (all of us, none of us started with TE), but we switched to TE. People don't switch from TE to SoD, at least I don't know anyone who does.

TE is a professional thing, and it's very rare for a new player to join it, because, for example, a person who has always played on SoD comes along. They are told: "Okay, install TE, read the file with the differences, and you can start playing with us."

No one is talking about new players because only a fairly good player with good experience can understand that TE is better than SoD. Again, this is based on my personal experience. I didn't play TE until I gained a certain amount of experience in SoD, and only then did I realize that SoD was a thing of the past.