When choosing a game I look for several things. My preference is for 4X, turn based strategy games with a tactical component. If the game is mod able that's a bonus. I shop on Steam and when I find something that looks interesting I will read the comments and check out videos on You Tube. Any new games that I buy have to offer something I don't already have in my game library.

If there were 10 new games that interested me I would buy them all. I don't know at what point I would be overloaded. Haven't been there yet.

In my mind magazines are a thing of the past. They are something you might pick up and read while waiting for your appointment in the doctor's office. See my question #1 answer.

Draufen, which version of Heroes of Might and Magic is better than Eador: Masters of the Broken World? 3? 6? I played those two. Eador's combat system is superior. Winning a battle in Heroes rests too much on unit numbers. Eador lacks unit stacks (thankfully) and makes extensive use of terrain and positioning. City building in Heroes is absurdly linear. Territory control in Eador is much more of a tactical affair compared to Heroes. There's so much more to be said...

If I find a good strategy game, I will play it for years. I have played and enjoyed all 3 Eadors, especially Broken World, and they are right up there with my all time favorites. I am almost 60, and have been playing 4x and other strategy games since the early days of the home PC. For me, the games I stick with have 3 things: an art style I like, an imaginative and intriguing world, and gameplay that is fun to learn but not easy to master.

I still read PC Gamer, but I prefer to listen to podcasts like 3 Moves Ahead and Explorminate for my gaming news, as well as just good old clicking around on the web and in Steam discussions. Hope Eador will live on.

Уважаемые разработчики! Я - игроманка со стажем. Люблю РПГ и стратегии. Герои, Цива, Wizardry... На Эадор наткнулась случайно, и то на Владык миров. Купила по скидке. Конечно же купила и Империю. Играю только в свободную карту, большую или огромную. Натыкаюсь на долгий ход компьютера в поздней стадии игры, из-за чего играть не хочется. Не люблю что-то новое, люблю проверенное. Эадор - проверенное. Готова играть в игру, если вводится новый контент. Сахар и лимон в чай не клала :)

Just give me back the campaign from Master of broken world I'd like to pay for it!!!! Including thre new units and new worlds, of course.

Just one programmer for Eador?

I'm enjoying these discussions about game design :) A lot of how I get awareness of games has to do with Steam, and then there's a local show called ScreenPlay which I watch for gaming news. Also when things get a lot of viewers in Twitch I tend to notice. How I decide to buy a game depends at least a little on how effective the ad is at impressing me. Sometimes I just see something and something about it looks cool, so I impulse buy and later regret it. That doesn't necessarily mean a snazzy ad so much as an ad that showcases something original about the game that I want to see. I probably regret impuluse buys about half the time I make them, but they don't happen very often. Maybe once or twice a year.

Concnerning Eador, I found it through Steam recommendation, then I think I saw the comment that Imperium was happening in the news section of Eador at some point.

As for how many strategy games I need per year, well, since you used the word "need" the answer is 0. In the unlikely event that game studios were producing exactly the kind of strategy games that I'm looking for with different campaigns and story lines to play through, I might buy something like three per year. However, I might be happier to see three expansions on the same game, because my ideal stuff in this genre is something that has a lot to explore.

Most games I find on steam or YouTube. I ended up with here because I saw the MotBW trailer and, well, upon investigation I liked the tactical combat part and the beautiful graphics. How long ago was that? Hmm, feels like 10 years :). Damn, time flies...

Theisos, I meant Heroes of M and M III. Units stacking is stupid, agreed. Though I still had the same fun playing with 50 black dragons compared to playing with 2 vampires etc in eador. Combat system: what about the "wait and move after" choice in heroes III? Winning in heroes relies only on numbers of units? Now that s a bad joke.You forgot that heroes of might and MAGIC do stand up for their name.

Continued: Cunning abilities system allows even a barbar to mass-haste units. Building/resource usage in heroes is somewhat more simple, but I am afraid that eador went too deep into details. Teritory control? Wtf, I cant even transport units over my heroes and the idea of "rings of provinces" has proven to me not so good. In heroes I have feeling of complete freedom. Last but not least: heroes; sorry, but along with the campaigns heroes of m+m are unmatched. And 1 more thing: when I play huge map against 7 opponents in heroes, their turns dont take 10 mins, while in eador playing only against few (meaning 2 or 3) pc enemies DO take many minutes.

Why don't you guys start a kickstart or anything like that nowadays for a revampend Eador with new engine and stuff? I mean be reasonable put stuff you can do and the money should come in. I would gladly paid I'm a huge fan from Eador and Still play Genesis(With mod) and Imperium. I know the genre is a niche but meh, maybe invest in marketing and something like that and you can suprise lots of people, take Stardew Valley for example, that genre is also a niche and was a FInancial susscesful. I don't know I just don't like seeing all my favorite series dying i'm sorry for the rant :( (Tactics Ogre, Front Mission, Heroes (Killed By ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) and the list goes on.

For me, there are basically 2 major factors when it comes to hearing of and eventually buying new games:
1. My gaming friends want to play it with me. That of course requires them to have heard of the game some how.
2. A Let's Play Youtuber does a Let's Play or at the very least a Let's Look At of the game. This is how I first get to know most of the games I like (Eador included, I am pretty sure it was Northernlion that made an Episode about it and I was really intrigued with the game's concept). If I actually end up buying a game it is usually because I saw a YouTuber play it, I liked the game and I couldn't stand how bad the YouTuber was at decision making so I just had to buy the game to perform better myself (that is why I bought X-Com for 50€ ).

When it comes to people like me, the best advertising is to send copies of your game to YouTubers that you think will like your content and that usually play games like yours. For most strategy titles a name that comes to my mind is quill18, who certainly has an audience with a high percentage of people that would like Eador. But I am sure that there are other fitting YouTubers as well.
The price is of course also a factor. For me, I will not really mind acting on a momentary desire to play a game if it costs less than 25€, anything above that makes it far more likely for me to instead be patient and wait for a sale, and by the time that comes around, I might not want to play the game anymore so I might not buy it, even if it is a good deal.

Как попал? Давно наткнулся на Эадор Бокулёва. Очень понравилась. Но бои без анимации всё же сделали своё черное дело и я отложил игру в долгий ящик. После этого случайно наткнулся на Владык миров и естественно купил. После уже купил Империю ибо верил в будущее игры.

Сколько стратегий? Да сколько угодно. Главное, чтобы было разнообразие внутри игры. А не как в AoW3- сверху разнообразно,а внутри всё слишком похоже..

И не забывайте про тактические бои в стратегии. Они должны содержать элементы тактики.

1) Игра в нужном жанре выбирается по отзывам и рекомендациям проверенных друзей-игроманов. Обязателен хороший ИИ у компа-противника! Одна хорошая игра серии даёт некоторый лимит лояльности на пару последующих игр. 2) В год надо не более двух стратегий. Хорошие стратегии (Эадор, HOMM) играются и по десять лет. Но хорошие стратегии и делаются довольно редко. Из магических походовых стратегий хороших за десять лет всего три и сделано: HOMM 3-4, Эадор Сотворение и Age of Wonder 2. Всё остальное в разы слабее (типа Warlock 2) или или багованно, как например Эадор MBW.