Younes said:The average joe does not care how historical the game is. This is an absurd claim.
You watching some historical review of a movie and it having 1 million views does not mean there is a high demand for it.
Average Joe cares a lot. Otherwise nobody would bother with historical accuracy at all in the first place. Fact that film and game developers are giving increased attention to the historical accuracy is not because they care, but because of the popular demand and because they think historical accuracy can bring them profits.
And reason why average Joe cares is that even average Joe does not want to be stupid. He does not want to be misled and he is interesting in knowing history, how things were for real. It might not be his first priority in the life but never the leas.
In fact historical accuracy is so popular, that there recently appeared games and films that made it their selling point. Like Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
Just compare Rome Total War and Rome II Total War. It's still historical BS for most part, but one can't but notice huge effort to make it more accurate (which wasn't that hard given how low a standard the first one had set, but still).
Same goes for historical films.
Younes said:There is demand for a fun game, not ruined by this kind of stupid ideas that its not "historical accurate" in a game where all the factions are not even named after "historical" nations or kingdoms or whatever you want to call it.
If that would be the case, historical games and films would became LESS accurate over time. They are not. On contrary.