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Yes, some of the best and most popular ways to play multiplayer are strategy games - that doesn't mean multiplayer makes those games popular, it means that if you're already looking to play multiplayer, those games are some of the best ways to do it.īut the overwhelming majority of strategy gamers aren't looking to play multiplayer in the first place. Chasing it is a good, time-tested way to see your game flop. I know plenty about head to head multiplayer in the strategy genre, dude, and that's how I know that it is simply not a popular draw. Age of Empires 4 tried to chase the competitive scene, and the playerbase numbers nosedived to about half of Age of Empires 2, which holds steady primarily because of its campaign/modding content and cult classic appeal. You know what proportion of the playerbase has that 'play 10 ranked multiplayer matches, win or lose' achievement they added? 1%.

Hell, Planetary Annihilation pivoted pretty hard towards competitive play. Only 2.3% of that HBS Battletech strategy game's playerbase have ever won a multiplayer match, and only ZERO POINT SEVEN percent have played (not won, *played*) 5. Company of Heroes 1 and 2 are rightly regarded as classics - less than 15% of their playerbase have queued up for multiplayer. Total Warhammer 3 makes its multiplayer skirmishes incredibly easy to get into, it inherits a long-running multiplayer community, and still less than a third of the playerbase have tried a match - and a lot of that probably comes from people doing co-op campaigns or doing a single match for achievement-hunting, because per dev comments the actual dedicated multiplayer community is like, 5% of the playerbase. Age of Wonders: Planetfall? Less than 3% have played enough multiplayer to have the 'win a match' achievement. Iron Harvest? Only 19% of players have even tried multiplayer for a single match. Grey Goo? About 6.5% of the playerbase has any of the multiplayer achievements. Yet the breakout hits of the game's development history have been things like the arcade and co-op modes, while the much-touted head-to-head Archon mode was dead on arrival.Ĭheck the achievement data for other strategy games sometime, you can see how popular the multiplayer is. And that's the high-water mark of popularity for head-to-head multiplayer in strategy games as a genre, with Blizzard's marketing pushing Starcraft's reputation as the big boy competitive esports game. Guess what? Per the devs comments, Starcraft's playerbase splits about 80/20 in favour of single-player or co-op content.

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