Forum interest.

Warhammer Chaos Gate has tons of channels and viewers playing it on Twitch currently, including CohhCarnage (one of Twitch's most popular streamers)
The reviews seem to be pretty much universally positive so far too, looks like a pretty good launch all things considered. Getting many favourable comparisons to XCOM, which is about as good as it gets for a tactical turn-based game.
 
Eh...space game forums in my experience have always been quite engaging...for various reasons.
I think the format of a space game lends to people having great dreams and wishes of what could be. Further, I think the space sim community is just more engaged than some other areas that Frontier develops games in.
 
It's probably those flashbacks from flying over Macho Grande....

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Eh...space game forums in my experience have always been quite engaging...for various reasons.
I think the format of a space game lends to people having great dreams and wishes of what could be. Further, I think the space sim community is just more engaged than some other areas that Frontier develops games in.

or they're busy playing the game and have no reason to consult websites and forums in order to really play the game while elite generally requires (either for information or boredom) a second screen pointing to websites / applications to play the game.

For elite, the forum is an aspect of the game itself. Providing a social structure that the game itself fails to take advantage of internally despite being sold as an mmo. So it's not a surprise that ED players are highly active in it while players of the other games in Fdev's arsenal are not.
 
for the first time ever I clicked on a forum besides Elite. I saw some strange games that I’d never heard of. Chaos Gate and Lemons Gate among others.
I noticed the shocking number of posts on those forums. Lol.

Chaos gate: 40 whole threads.
Lemons gate: a stunning 28 threads
Jurassic World: 8.4 kiloThreads.
Planet Zoo: 10.7 kiloThreads.
Planet Coaster: 16.2 kiloThreads

Elite Dangerous: 180 kiloThreads and 4.3M messages!!
IMHO this game deserves better than being relegated to “other revenue”
I think a difference would be that you basically have to engage with ED on social media or forums because there are so many mechanics in it that are nigh-on impenetrable without asking other players. ED is the only game I'm on a forum for.
 
While I haven't played those other games ED has regular task-swapping kinda built into its design.

Other than AWSD, ALT-TAB is one of the most frequent key-presses I make.
 
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