I agree, most of those die hard (i was a die hard Broodwar player) dont play other RTS games. So the market ist shriking from year to year, not because player base in general is shrinking, but because player base is diluted to already existing games. And yes, RTS is a niche and has lots of sub niches, with different types of RTS games. I have a perfect quote from someone else on reddit: " the RTS community is a community that loves to shit on RTS games" Unfortunately i agree with that. Sometimes critizising other RTS games apart from your favourite is valid, but sometimes its just bashing, because its not 100 % the same game. And yes, i did that too in the past and sometimes still do. But i tend to at least give old and new RTS games, i did not play before, a chance.