I am going to quote a great comment written by udtothep 2 Can we dispel the myth that Total War is a niche game and that this somehow excuses all sorts of business practices ? The way people go on about this here you ' d think this was an indie game when in truth it ' s one of the most popular and best selling strategy franchises in history . Warhammer was number 2 on Steam ' s top sellers for weeks after it ' s release , it ' s reached 500 k sales in a matter of days faster than DOOM , we don ' t have numbers but we know it ' s pretty much the best selling TW game to date , and this niche franchise has games like Rome 2 that sold over a million copies within the first year . Sure , it ' s not your CoDs or your Battlefields sale numbers , but TW games sell copies and print money . Make no mistake about that . And while we ' re on the subject of CoD , there ' s a franchise that ' s probably the bestselling one in history , as far from the term niche as you can possibly imagine , and it ' s still infamous for absolutely crappy sales 4 and 5 year old games still sold at full price and only getting small discounts in Steam sales , a perfect example that it has nothing to do with how many copies the game sells , it ' s just entirely down to the publisher ' s business practices . It ' s a safe bet that Warhammer has actually sold more copies than DOOM , and even if it didn ' t there isn ' t much of a margin between them . If it goes on sale , people will buy it . It ' s Total War , what rock have you been hiding under for the past 10 years that makes you think it ' s a niche game ?