Why am I not surprised that you ignored 99% of what I posted and just cherry picked a few things, then invented more rubbish? You pretty much proved me right, you are just bitter and out to bash the "in" thing to bash, ie the Wargame community. .
First of all, your post was 99% nonsensical to begin with. As I said, you were getting angry over things that were never implied to begin with; so why should I engage someone's delusional accusations? Accusing people of engaging in childish rants is easy. Actually seeing a childish rant disguised as posturing for the moral high-ground and treating it with the contempt it deserves takes a bit of actual knowledge and maturity.
The reality again is very, very simple.
The whole point of the Steam Spy exercise is to show there was very little correlation between Wargame players and Steel Division players to begin with. And indeed, every data point seems to further confirm that hypothesis. Yet, by your twisted logic - I am providing ammunition for those who want to "bash" the Wargame community despite saying the WG community actually didn't matter.
The real issues you have with me is twofold, and it would be a lot less embarrassing for you and your cohorts if you actually addressed these rather than shadow-boxing imagined versions of me. Indeed, that some of your cohorts keep trying to pretend they don't understand my point shows the level of self-deception one has to engage in to try and pretend my conclusions were automatically anti-WG community.
First, as is to be expected on the Internet and your typical entitled Western gamer, you don't like being reminded of how small you are in the grand scheme of things.
Second, and more bluntly - many in the WG "community" took a perverse pride in "killing" SD.
Much of that however blew back in their faces when I simply pointed out that depriving Eugen of revenues through SD probably also killed any chance of having WG4 and not to mention Eugen.
And that idea - judging by the reddit page - is getting a bit of traction to the point that some people there are now thinking of such short-term (and I feel ultimately futile) cash-grab methods like releasing DLC to save Eugen. Meanwhile other "prominent" WG "tourney" players keep trying to debate me with embarrassingly bad game development cost math to try and pretend that SD flopping wasn't a major financial blow to Eugen and its ability to make future games.
For my part, I don't really get any pleasure in "bashing" the WG community. Like I said, it didn't matter in the first place. Nobody cares about it. I don't have friends who will be impressed by "bashing" it.
The only enjoyment to be had here is the simple irony of people celebrating the death of a "rival" game only to belatedly realized they also killed their own game. People unfortunately are often incredibly short-sighted; and choose to blame those who have simply shown them the longer-term consequences of their actions rather than actually admit to this short-sightedness. But hey, sure, keep pressing the disagree button until it breaks like what Razzman is hilariously doing. After all how dare this "Zinegata" outsider figure out the Cassandra truth of the SD/WG dynamic instead of the supposed leaders of the WG community.
