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Is the opinion which there is so many new players introduced to M&B series with Bannerlord a myth?
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Im not talking about the steam workshop lol. Im talking about the fact that all mods can easily be kept in the steam/steam apps/warband/modules folder. It’s as simple as extracting it there. Idk what you do on a non steam version, but it can’t be more simple than that.
Both M&B and Warband just have a Mods folder in the game's directory. Maybe it's not simpler, it is just as simple, tho.
First of all, a disclaimer. r/mountandblade subreddit founded at Jun 3, 2009. So demographically, there is huge chance that this subreddit consists so many of old players but still this is the largest social platform directly related M&B series ever.
As I ventured this forum, I stumbled upon and disagreed with the opinion that Bannerlord player base consists of considerable amount of new players who introduced M&B series with Bannerlord. So a while ago I did a poll asking the question "How many of players are introduced Mound and Blade series with Bannerlord". Unfortunately, after thousands votes reddit shows the number in the form of 1k, 2k etc. So there is 2k participants in this poll and 223 voters says "I only played Bannerlord" which makes of ((223/2000)*100) 11.65 % of the participants. There is a new poll posted by the user Madzieg.
So the poll is like this. This is relatively new poll and there is 2 days before it is closed. I know there is still time but after certain voters participate in the poll, the percentage number of the choices does not change much. As of right now, there is 381 voters and 30 of them says "I play Bannerlord (never played Warband before)" which makes 7.87 % of the voters. With respect to the polls made in this subreddit, new player base somewhere at 10%. Imho, this number is not significant and I think Bannerlord failed to attract considerable amount of new players to the series. Of course, time could change this number.
I did another poll regarding if the players need mods to enjoy the game and 37.66 % of the voters said yes. I think it is considerable amount of the players.
All I am saying is I have strong opinion that TW tried to attract new players with their approach of developing their game which I think a lot of forum user here share this opinion but this number is a failure in my book. I think TW should abandon their approach and try to look what made Warband successful.
Aren't you already skewing the poll results by posting a link to the poll in the Bannerlords General Discussion subforum? Or is this also being posted in the other General Discussions?
He is entirely right imo. It was also not an option to download older warband versions on steam IIRC whereas TW offered them on their website. Many warband mods did not keep up with game updates for notable amounts of time.
If you have time post in this thread you have time to add war elephants! ?
Nevermind Warband mods.
I remember having to keep track of the version original M&B was on so I could install the correct version of Sword of Damocles!
Talking of which - everyone keeps complaining about missing Warband features in Bannerlord...
But what about the missing M&B features in Warband?!
Dark Knights! When?!
My first post on the forums was to thank von Mistont and the team for that mod... some 12 years ago now, heh.
Someone get me Adorno in here so I can ***** one more time about SAVAGE mod never making it to Warband.
As i said so many times before, the percentage numbers of the choices does not change much after certain voters participate. There were two times i shared a poll link here before it closed and guess what, it did not change the numbers. If this is not enough, we can look at the numbers at the moment i shared here because at the time i shared the poll, the amount of participant was already enough for statistic results. As i said in previous posts, 384 participant is enough to draw statistic result with 95 percentage confidence level and 5 percentage confidence interval.
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This poll I shared here before it closed.
The number in percentage before I shared here (381 voters):
-I play Warband (never played Bannerlord before) 96 votes, 25.2 %
-I came back to Warband (played Bannerlord before) 38 votes, 9.97 %
-I play both of them 79 votes, 20.73 %
-I play Bannerlord only (never played Warband before) 30 votes, 7.87 %
- I play Bannerlord (played Warband before) 138 votes, 36.22 %
The numbers right now which means after I shared the poll here (888 voters):
-I play Warband (never played Bannerlord before) 230 votes, 25.90 %
-I came back to Warband (played Bannerlord before) 94 votes, 10.59 %
-I play both of them 180 votes, 20.27 %
-I play Bannerlord only (never played Warband before) 56 votes, 6.31 %
- I play Bannerlord (played Warband before) 328 votes, 36,94 %
So as I said before so many times and shared sample size calculator numbers and shared a article which says in the perspective of statistics after certain sample size for a certain population size, trying to increase the sample size does not get your results significantly more accurate and right now presented how this statement is true with data, after 507 new voters, the numbers in percentage did not change much.
So there is no such a thing as skewing.
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What? Trying to increase sample size does yield better results but what also matters, and what my point was here, where you field those samples from. If I wanted to know if Nike had better sportshoes then Adidas and I'd walk into the Adidas headquarters to ask my questions, the results would be incredible onesided as theres a clear bias.
So if u wanted to see how popular A vs B is and you ask a forum dedicated to B then ofcourse youre gonna have a bias towards B.
And the absolute statement of there being no such thing as skewing is ludacris.
Do you actually read and see what I just posted or read my previous posts or read the article I shared? I am backing up my statements with numbers, countering your arguments with article and the real data I just shared.
One of my previous post:
As I said in the disclaimer, this is true but this is the biggest platform to do that. And after certain number, you can not get more accurate than this as stated here in the perspective of statistics.
If we approach the subreddit like a poll, the people who reached this niches of the Subreddit which has 230k members should be reflection of the real player base.
Edit: I do not really get it. 230k members is not a small number of a subreddit of a game which sold 5-10M.
Edit 2: This subreddit is not TW headquarters, these people here are consumers of a product which consist of 230k members. Even your example does not make sense.
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The sample size is not at all a problem, because as I said, what my point is where those numbers come from.
Lets look at my former analogy again: I had it simplified but I could try and ELI5.
"So if u wanted to see how popular A vs B is and you ask a forum dedicated to B then ofcourse youre gonna have a bias towards B."
A = Warband and B = Bannerlord.
If one of my voting options is: I've played Warband but never played Bannerlord then nobody at the subforum dedicated to Bannerlord would vote for that option. Because we can assume that anybody roaming the Bannerlord subforums have played Bannerlord atleast once.
But since the poll was also posted at the general mountandblade subreddit, there will be SOME people who will vote for that option. And since you dont know how many voters came from source AB (subreddit) or just from source B (Bannerlord subforum) the outcome of that particular voting option means nothing anymore.
r/mountandblade is a subreddit dedicated to M&B series not Warband and also official and also has triple the size of r/Bannerlord. The polls in question also want the attention of old Warband players. There is no proper place to do these polls than r/mountandblade.
I aslo can assume that r/mounandblade subreddit members at least once heard about a game called Bannerlord, watched gameplay footage if they want to buy it or not, read reviews and such.
I aslo can assume that r/mounandblade subreddit members at least once heard about a game called Bannerlord, watched gameplay footage if they want to buy it or not, read reviews and such.
Yeah, thats my point again. r/mountandblade is dedicated to the entire series and would've been a viable polling source. But since the poll was also posted on this subforum (aka an unviable polling source considering the nature of the questions) the results were skewed.
You could've brought them back into balance by also posting them in the Warband General Discussions. A + AB + B instead of AB + B.
That is my point. And as I said "I aslo can assume that r/mounandblade subreddit members at least once heard about a game called Bannerlord, watched gameplay footage if they want to buy it or not, read reviews and such."
I think you're purposefully missing the rest of my comment there. For the second time in a row. EDIT: Third time. So I'll bid you adieu and have a great day.
Yeah we could do that. Since r/Bannerlord subreddit members could have never heard or stumble upon r/mountandblade subreddit within these 2 long years?
Back in the Warband days, you did manual installs for SP mods and played offline/non-Steam, so you were not counted by Steam.
Just for better presenting it,
I will write all of the difference in percentage for each choices before I shared the poll here and after I shared,
I will write all of the difference in percentage for each choices before I shared the poll here and after I shared,
| The choices | Difference in percentage before and after |
| -I play Warband (never played Bannerlord before) | 0.7 |
| -I came back to Warband (played Bannerlord before) | 0.62 |
| -I play both of them | 0.46 |
| -I play Bannerlord only (never played Warband before) | 1.56 |
| - I play Bannerlord (played Warband before) | 0.72 |
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