alt Hacker NewsDid HoMM series ever get popular outside Eastern Europe? I am yet to meet a person born and raised in the US who have heard about it, but maybe i am just unlucky or targeting a wrong demographic.
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Let's say not as popular as other games, but it was popular enough to pirate in the US.
Friends and I loved Heroes 3, but we're Québécois.
It found a following in some parts of LATAM as well.
I was wondering about the reason and suspect lack of advertising. There was an ad campaign in Computer Gaming World Magazine http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=40698&pagenum...
CGW issue 144 1996/07 small piss poor banner
CGW 146 1996/09 full page but confusing with only two tiny bad game screens and wall of text
CGW 147 1996/10 - month of release - same wall of text and one slightly better tiny screen
CGW 148 1996/11 half page ad but finally full of good screens and actual description what the game is all about
CGW 151 1997/02 they finally got a hang of this, detailed description of what to expect from teh game
CGW 152 1997/03 CGW 153 1997/04 CGW 156 1997/07 reverting to 148 style
CGW reviewed in very late in 1997/02 giving it 100%.
I cant find any ads in period correct PC Gamer. They reviewed it great, but annual PC Gamer Top 100 1996 didnt even mention it, and 1997 put it far back at 25 https://www.pixsoriginadventures.co.uk/pc-gamer-top-100-1997...
I played Might and Magic as a child but I never knew about this series nor have I ever played it. I also don't know anyone who has either now that you mention it.