@katharsas said in FAF for Casual Players:
There are plenty of games that don't have campaigns or survival and those games are liked just fine by the casual audience.
I'm not trying to be rude, I'm genuinely curious here. Can you name five RTS games where the player controls at least five units[fn1] AND don't have campaigns AND they don't have survival AND they have more than a tiny casual audience (let's say, at least 200 unique casual players every month)?
[fn1] I want to exclude games where you control only one character, e.g. MOBA games, LazerGrrl, Natural Selection, Orcs Must Die. I see those as very different from FAF, StarCraft, C&C, etc. I would allow you to include games like BannerLord where you mostly move one character around but you do give orders to squads. Of course, BannerLord has a campaign so it can't be one of the 5.
Almost every RTS has a campaign if for no other reason than most casual gamers won't buy the game if it doesn't have one. The implied promise is: the campaign is a way to learn the game without constantly getting dunked on by other people, so you will get at least a few hours of enjoyment if you buy the game. So I think you'd have to look pretty hard to find 5 popular campaign-less RTS games unless you're looking at unfinished games (e.g. a game through Steam Early Access).