Still waiting to see if he agrees the devs should add the greeks with myth units and god powers since “Age of Mythology did it too”
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Lol. Don’t know much about the history of these other civs but I agree that this timeline argument is absurd. However I feel like a lot more new people may have joined the community if the marketing or civ naming was done right, so sadly its a missed growth opportunity. And yes moving it to chronicles makes zero sense. Campaign players should understand half the community doesn’t care about chronicles and didn’t even buy it.
The WRE was around for around half a century after the supposed collapse before it fully collapsed. Though the Hunnic campaign doesn’t fall into the AoE2 timeline, there were Hunnic kingdoms all the way to the late 6th century and and the celts ar the Scots. There were Gothic kingdoms after the collapse of the WRE. Even if it’s a big strech, they still somewhat fall into the AoE timeline/theme and the cvis are fully fleshed out.
This one’s outright outside of both the AoE2 theme and timeline and the civs are not properly fleshed out. They knew what players wanted and have been asking for for years and directly went against it. There’s talks going around that the 3K were originally supposed to be a Chronicles dlc based on file locations, and that they ended up fusing the Chinese dlc with the chronicles dlc. This is all just one giant mess and I personally won’t spend my money on slop.
And it’s not only AoE 2. The AoE3 dlc was canned and the AoE4 dlc has also been a massive letdown. Very likely case is their leadership is fucking around.
And if the chronicles multiplayer is dead then there’s a good reason for that, that being that no one wants to play it and forcing that slop into the main game will end up poisoning the rest.
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I think this DLC will get generally good feedback and will sell pretty well.
That doesn’t mean I particularly like everything about it, but lets face it:
Most people don’t know chinese history enough, to notice or mind the historical inaccuracies or unfitting timeline.
For them its just a new AoE2 DLC that offers 5 new civs, with lots of new units, for only a slightly higher price than the mountain royals. So as a value proposition its quite good.