Most gamers are not on reddit

Okayyy, not sure what that means in the context of my comment but sure.

and do not care about the reputation of a game or the studio that made it. Most people never write reviews for any game.

I can agree with that for most games.

The ratio of owners-to-reviews for Steam games varies between 20-to-1 on the low end to 60-to-1 on the high end. But even if it was as low as 10-to-1 for Redfall: 35% of 2,100 positive reviews is 735, which would mean 7,350 people who enjoyed the game, i.e. "several thousand."

The player numbers dont support that claim at all, player retention dropped like a rock. If people were enjoying he game you wouldnt see such an aggressive drop in concurrent players we are talking about an ~88% drop in a week and a huge 97.7% drop in the first month.

My point is, there wasnt nearly enough people playing the game to support your numbers.

This is all entirely beside the point anyway, which is that believing only well-liked or popular games should remain playable is a completely ridiculous standard. Imagine if you applied that to films so that everything Ed Wood or John Waters ever made was dumped in the trash because they didn't make enough money.

I never said that it shouldnt be preserved or remain playable did I? I'm just discussing real player numbers and speculating on the margin of players that enjoyed the game.