...namely, that few players play on TE... that dozen or so that there are – I mean interesting players – try to catch them – for example, as a busy person, it’s difficult for me even to agree with someone on a specific time – I can go online, open the player list, and knock on someone’s door... and I have a list of 200 players... but on TE?
And I’ll give you a downvote, great king Navuchodonosor! ;-) From a player and a team member! :-) Because this statement is incorrect. There are enough players playing on TE for you, for me, and for half of this forum. If you personally can’t find them for some reason, I can help, of course, but I won’t even give links to websites that can’t be mentioned, because you know them just as well as I do. :-)
And SoD will die out, at least as a serious platform for the competitive aspect of the game, because it’s standing still, has no development, and has a far from perfect balance for serious games, has bugs, and has an inconvenient interface that slows down the already slow game.
And do you know that WoG, thanks to V. Salnikov and Co., has long been recognized worldwide, the world’s Heroes community plays it – this is a fact! Even during registration for testing at Ubisoft, they ask if you know WoG, if you’ve played it; even they consider this unofficial add-on to be on the same level as RoE, AB, and SoD – healthy competition, you see! SoD won’t exist for much longer, no matter how much you all want it to, because it has been standing still for many years, it has a lot of flaws, bugs, imbalances, an inconvenient, time-consuming interface that doesn’t allow you to play it at a professional, competitive, or simply high level. And WoG and TE, developed on its platform, are precisely developing and complementing SoD, giving players, fans, the opportunity to create the game they need, without depending on “guys filling their own pockets,” to implement TE ideas, to refine the TE imperfections that have been found in Heroes 3 over many years. Please finally understand that, over time, everything will fade away, SoD will be forgotten, just as RoE and AB were forgotten; only Heroes 3 will remain – the immortal ideas of John Van Caneghem, which will be developed, supplemented, refined, and adapted to the realities of the modern gaming world and the demands of TBS by the fans of the Great Game, players, and the entire interested Heroes community, all for whom Heroes is not just a favorite game, and the death of the Game and its ideas is not indifferent to them!
So stop the pointless arguments; I’ve already proven everything to myself; it’s better to...(c)...let time put everything in its place. :-)
P.S. In general, I realized for myself that Heroes 2 is forever ;-), play them; you’re doing pretty well there. :-)