about 2 years ago - /u/marox_ - Direct link

Originally posted by Noob_Wizard

If anybody's curious, I'm asking because Crush said on the Discord that 95% of players play horde, invasion and frontline, and as such doesn't care about skirmish, duel or ranked players. Which is a duel, skirmish and ranked player, annoys me and intrigues me.

It's more like 85%, the remaining 15% goes to brawl (around 12%), duel and tf (together around 3%). However, this is only regarding official servers.

about 2 years ago - /u/marox_ - Direct link

Originally posted by ballpoint169

do you have any thoughts on improving skirmish? (5v5 format, limited/no archers, no toolbox, remove maps like grad and use tweaked designs of maps like tourney and contraband where it's currently easy to avoid fights and force a draw)

The format is generally too competitive for the vast majority of the playerbase, hence why 3v3 and 1v1 combined captures a mere 3% of the audience. It started off really high, as we had around 15% people playing 3v3 initially, but it died off really quick. There is definitely room for improvement, but it won't change the adoption drastically, and I don't see 5v5 holding much interest as a result. Still, we might attempt it eventually as we shuffle things around and try things out. Ultimately we're faced with the reality that 70% of the playerbase is in Frontline and Invasion, so we have to budget our time accordingly.

about 2 years ago - /u/marox_ - Direct link

Originally posted by DrunkDwarfUK

This is really interesting. Can you comment on how much more popular the new Horde is compared to the old Horde so far? One of the graphs you shared a long time ago had Horde at around 16%.

Unfortunately, not much changed. Initially it spiked due to it being new, but it's back at around 17% now (it was 15-16% before). We were hoping it would attract more players with the improvements, but we were wrong.