It still just makes me laugh that Italy can find enough players but Russia etc. cant
Lets not forget Scotland, with a 5mil population and unlike russians, not having our own community + forums made a team when somehow they can't???
Speculation on numbers is realy funny, when you only take the number you want. How many russians are living in GMT+5 and higher zones? What is average salary in Russia and in Soctland? (f.e. in Ukraine average salary is 198$, so M&B will cost you ~ 10% of your salary) I'm not defending Russia here, they could easily find a full russian team imho but to take the ppl number as main argument is stupid
Salary pro capite is irrealevant since
1) the players interested in this kind of games are just a small percentage of the whole videogamers in a country, and in order to like this game they gotta have strong motivation(es: interest in history; they liked warband or similar games) so it's not like the price actually means something for the majority of players interested in buying NW. If you have money for buying a PC you probably have money for NW aswell
2) this game is freaking old and steam sales and Key stores online sold It for a bunch of euro so it's not like everybody bought it for15-25€ euro eheh
+ Everybody knows that russia can easilly field its own team, is not about it's population but we all know is still full of ruski players out there