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>rts "fans" dont specialize in only rts.
I never said they did
>much less "big budget franchises"
You used to be able to pick up random no-name RTS games from demo disks found in cereal packages. Most of the consistent players gathered around a few titles, if you ask what his favorite RTS was he wasn't going to say "oh Ant Warz from 1997", it was either going to be a Blizzard title, CnC title or AoE title, very occasionally you get some BFME/Spellforce/SupCom/DoW players but some games absolutely dominated the market.
>theres a few indie rts that got a decent following.
Decent enough to keep the genre alive on their own and to develop new titles or is the total playerbase a tenth of Garena's daily DotA players?
>command and conquer died when they made it into a mobile game , just like dungeon keeper.
Rivals was released in 2018, RA3 was released in 2008. It had been dead for a long time before the arrival the mobile game.
>age of empires went into hiatus becuase microsoft wanted more 360 titles and development on windows 8.
AoE 3 did get a lukewarm reception, but sure, Microsoft fucked up Ensemble for stupid reasons, so either way that's one of the big RTS devs gone
>dawn of war was as popular as age of empires and most everything else except starcraft.
I find that hard to believe. Just by skimming through the numbers it says DoW sold around 4 million copies in five years, AoE2 sold around 2 million copies in the first three months alone, with incredible sales continuing the following months, and just by looking at the steamdc charts right now you can see that AoE2 DE has more concurrent players than all Dawn of War titles put together.
>warcraft 3 and tft even dota predates wow by about two years
...Yes, they release one game, stop working on it and then after XX months of development time they ship another game. Are you unaware that games have a development time or what's your point?

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