What games are people playing??

[Mad Baron]

Looking at the ladders the last three years shows a steep decline in the number of CMx1 games played.

In 2010: 156 members logged more than one game, and there were 54 members who logged at least 12 games in CM;

in 2011: 117 members logged more than one game (a 25% drop), and 33 members logged at least 12 games (a 40% drop);

and in 2012: 72 members logged more than one game (a 39% drop from 2011 and a 54% drop from 2010) and only 22 members logged at least 12 games (a 33% drop from 2011, and a 60% drop from 2010) .

So -- if fewer people are playing CMx1, what has replaced it?

I would guess mainly CMx2, which went from 73 members who logged more than one game in 2011 to 100 members in 2012.

Are there other games out there that have replaced or augmented members' time playing CMx1 ? I thought Panzer Command Ostfront might have taken away a lot of my CM time, but not so.

CMx1 is any of the 3: CMBO, BB, or AK? And CMx2 is Shock Force...or the newer Normandy game (I haven't bought either of those two)? I see where I played 14 games last year, and that's roughly average for me. (It took me 10 years to get 100 games, which I did in either Oct or Nov last year--but I had close to a year somewhere during the 10 when I didn't play any Ladder games.)

At least I'm part of the 22 above!
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