MerlinTheMagician
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Well, on the third point, 90-95% of SoD players. Who the hell needs WT
Thirdly, I'll remind both you and dear comrade Dirty that the results of a survey (which you never conducted) are not objective data, since they represent subjective assessments.
As for objective data — the number of registered users on the HeroesWorld forum is 24288. The HeroesWorld forum was launched, if I'm not mistaken, in 2005. And at that time, products under the conditional name "The Heroes of Might and Magic Game Series" were already popular and in demand in their own right. Considering the fact that a significant number of users obviously do not visit the section dedicated to the SoD version, it becomes clear that the control sum of 24288 should be reduced by the number of those users who do not visit forums dedicated to SoD.
The number of registered users on the WT forum is 3795 people. The WT forum was launched in 2009 (in test mode). Effectively, it began operation in 2010 alongside the official release of the first working version of WT. The forum is dedicated to the WT product.
And the WT product was new and unknown at the time of its launch. Therefore, the effectiveness of WT, even based on these elementary data, is relatively higher than that of HeroesWorld as a whole, and certainly higher than HeroesWorld — SoD in particular, considering that the actual development of WT itself and the WT forum was handled by "2-3 people".
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And I'm not even mentioning the fact that the WT chat (even with the current lack of moderation) fulfills its function of finding opponents (which on HeroesWorld has a separate thread "Arrange to play 3 online!"). The number of views for that thread is about 210,000 (and, as I understand it, this is the most popular thread related to SoD).
At the same time, on the WT forum, the most popular thread is "[PLAYER RATING] Reports and confirmations of rated games", with over 250,000 views.