Is the Chinese market for this game much larger than the rest of the world for the total war series?

With the rumours surrounding the game currently, the multiple Cathay factions, what exactly is the appeal to the Chinese market? Do players from China strictly want to play a more Chinese like faction?

I'm thinking back to 3 kingdoms total war and it's relatively short lifespan. It wasn't a huge hit compared to it's other games, I mean I enjoyed it but it wasn't the most popular by far.

Imo it is hard to tell. 
There is a huge potential palyerbase but at the same time the government cracks down hard on gaming, or at least they did so in the past. There is also the question how big the RTS fan portion is.  I know mobile gaming and mmos are big but no clue for other genres.

Stop listening to internet rumors created by a YouTuber who gets paid to generate views and has been wrong far more often than he’s been right

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Itssomething#2248 wrote:

Imo it is hard to tell. 
There is a huge potential palyerbase but at the same time the government cracks down hard on gaming, or at least they did so in the past. There is also the question how big the RTS fan portion is.  I know mobile gaming and mmos are big but no clue for other genres.

​On the question of how big the Chinese market is, we certainly can't give an exact figure, maybe Sega can. But, to be vague, in terms of sales ranking for a single country, maybe top 3? 

And of course, you're asking this question probably because today's rumor mentioned more Cathay dlcs coming soon. Actually, I'm from China, but I'm not really interested in Cathay, though I will admit that most Chinese Warhammer players do like Cathay. I don't like the idea of CA releasing more Cathay DLC, but that's not to say that I disklike Cathay, just because it would crowd out the DLC slots for other factions that I like more (if the Doom rumors are true).

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Itssomething#2248 wrote:
but at the same time the government cracks down hard on gaming, or at least they did so in the past

​Half right, half wrong. Our government is very strict on culture and ideology, in the case of games, at least 95% of the games on steam can't get a license to publish in China. In fact, the steam game store is in a gray area in China, most of the regions can't even access the store properly, we have to use a game booster (some kind of VPN tool) to connect properly.

Itssomething#2248 wrote:
There is also the question how big the RTS fan portion is. 

The number of mobile gamers might be higher, but mobile gaming and PC gaming don't conflict, you can play them both. However, there is no need to worry about the number of PC gamers or even RTS fan portion because China's population is just too large. The base is so large that the number of gamers might be able to surpass the total population of some countries. 

In China, the Warhammer Total War is relatively unpopular, for all i know, A Chinese Warhammer forum has 200,000 people, Two thirds of them are players who bought the game, and half of them bought all DLC.​

There are as many Chinese Ex-Pats living around the world, as there are Canadians in Canada.

Take that as you wish.

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Storm_Claw#8296 wrote:
and half of them bought all DLC

 I'm skeptical about that last number, at least about the word “all”.

Although saying it could bring a bad impression but still want to say, that the number of people using DLC crack patches is also huge here. It was even cited as one of the reasons CA canceled development of the 3K dlc.

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bli-nk#6314 wrote:

CA needs growth to continue making ambitious games or they will turn into Slitherine which produces some decent games but basically all on the same formula with very little variety. 

Honestly, why change a winning formula? I mean, Total War is about as popular as its ever been despite 20+ years of market presence in various forms and the basic formula hasn't changed all that much. 

And as Hyenas prove, a company this associated with its flagship genre really shouldn't diversify all that far.

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Not so big that all of them are going to always buy new Cathayan content.

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dingbat#5498 wrote:

Stop listening to internet rumors created by a YouTuber who gets paid to generate views and has been wrong far more often than he’s been right

I believe the rumours. I think if this game was a really money maker they would be pumping but DLC often, but....they are not. So I think they will try something strange imo like make a few Cathay dlc and try to open the market to other players (China). I don't think it's a good strategy but they seem to make weird choices that don't make sense (Hyena's).

SoC would have had to sell twice as many units in China as the rest of the world combined to justify this 4 Cathay LL nonsense.

I strongly doubt the Chinese TW fans are both numerous enough to outnumber the fanbase elsewhere in the world, and chauvinist enough that so many of them would refuse to buy anything that isn't Cathay. 

Plus, even if Chinese fans are chauvinist enough that they'll just buy Cathay content, I rather doubt they'll be impressed by a Tigerman and an Ogre LL, neither of which have much basis on their mythology when compared to the Monkey King. 

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Jastalll#1030 wrote:

I strongly doubt the Chinese TW fans are both numerous enough to outnumber the fanbase elsewhere in the world, and chauvinist enough that so many of them would refuse to buy anything that isn't Cathay. 

Plus, even if Chinese fans are chauvinist enough that they'll just buy Cathay content, I rather doubt they'll be impressed by a Tigerman and an Ogre LL, neither of which have much basis on their mythology when compared to the Monkey King. 

Exactly. The 'CA might be pandering to the Chinese fanbase!'-nonsense needs to stop. Warhammer 3 has been quite faithful to the tabletop and will probably continue to do so.