Video taking off 12x its usual first day

Total War's Shogun 2 overview draws a crowd fifteen years on

A game first released in 2011 opened at nearly twelve times the channel's usual first day, with a busy comment section to match.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 204,797 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (17,513).

Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition - Game OverviewTotal War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition - Game Overview

Total War posted a game overview for "Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Complete Edition", and fourteen hours later it had passed 159,000 views. That puts it on course for a first day nearly twelve times what a new upload on the official channel usually gets.

The timing makes the start stand out more. The channel as a whole is drawing fewer views than usual. So are several other publisher channels around it, including Forza, Diablo and Bungie. The comments add something too: there is roughly one for every four likes, a lively ratio for a trailer-style video.

The game itself is no newcomer. Shogun 2, made by Creative Assembly, came out in 2011 and returned the series to its roots in feudal Japan. It is set in the Sengoku period, when rival clans fought over a divided country and the title of shogun. The upload gives no reason why an overview of a game this old arrived now, but it is the one pulling the channel's numbers up.

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The facts
Channel
Total War
Subscribers
593,000
Channel views, pace per day
78,084 (on a normal day: 112,694)
Video published
September 29, 2026
Video views so far
159,173 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
204,797

The numbers

The figures show a first day far above this channel's usual, arriving while its overall views run below normal.

the video's first day
usual first day here
17,513
this video
204,797
subscribers
593,000
total views
275,144,409
views per day
78,084
typical day: 112,694
the video
views
159,173
likes
5,884
comments
1,427
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Bungie
670,000
Luminosity Gaming
650,000
Forza
608,000
Diablo
605,000
Total War
593,000
Riot Games
590,000
As of September 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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