To put it lightly- not a StarCraft I direction. When it comes to strategies ATM I’m playing mostly ANNO 1800, 2070, Endzone - A World Apart and AoE3DE. IV went hard into viewer-friendly, streamlined classic APM fest and it’s just not for me anymore, certainly not in the long run. I’m all for more weight put onto diplomacy, economy, building, cooperation, immersion etc. They should focus on carving their own niche and proper marketing for it.ĭiplomacy and tycoon game modes are a fantastic move in a good direction. Not only expansions and DLC are great, but normal support is very good, much more than anyone could ever hope.ĪoE III won’t explode in popularity and it’s fine. But devs are doing the best they can and it shows. Sadly 3DE would need serious funding and a lot of manhours dedicated to overhauling AI, fleshing out and promoting these modes etc. And that’s one IP, in a genre with very limited interest compared with top game types these days. We already have 2DE an IV pushing hard for serious PvP competitive play, and there’s just not enough room AND eyeballs for all these games. I’m perfectly fine with 3DE pivoting from competitive, tournament stuff, and going hard into various solo and coop modes. They would get more views just from posting that on social media and paying for an ‘ad’ promo on the main page on Steam.ġDE is great but not a material for a competitive tournament of this type, and certainly not compared with all other AoE games, including Celeste. It doesn’t make sense in any way for me, outside of an announcement about new AoE game, spinoff-sequel to AoE1 or a full remake. We could speculate whole day about a possible revival of support, new expansion or whatever, but at the end of that day AoE 1 (DE) is still very archaic game with low appeal to players without nostalgia for it and especially newcomers to the genre and younger players, raised on much more modern and accessible games. Seems like a decision made by some office exec that is completely clueless about the reality. This is not how you treat a game in the series when claiming you care about the series. But the treatment from the business is horrendous. People who worked and are now working on the game are brilliant. A bubble for us to make-believe that this is no longer the least favored kid. Then they said (surprised) there are even players who want cards from AOEO (yes AOEO) and it does not make sense.ĭE is a bubble created by the brilliant crew. When promoting AOE4 they kept repeating how similar it is to AOE2 and pretended the torch throwing thing is a great innovation. The Eye of Horus achievement in Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (2018) (Windows. When promoting AOE3 DE they said “well AOE3 is not insanely popular as AOE2 but still quite popular”. The Wololo achievement in Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (2018) (Windows) worth 46 points Convert 1000 units. Then they coincidentally accidentally stopped there. When a mod that looks like an expansion for AOE2 dropped they immediately released the HD version and made it official. For most of the time in those days when you search for AOE3 the first article that pops up is “ Bruce Shelly says AOE3 was a mistake”. They pretended the game does not exist for 10 years.
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