Man a few people in those streams were so dumb. Ha like two seconds after being told not to spoiler they’d immediately ask the most spoilery worded question possible.
Right? I watch his Youtube VODs mostly because im sleeping when he streams, but it was hilarious sometimes the timing on those questions
That’s why I said that the game needs a total overhaul, water mechanics should be modernized… How can we say that age IV is a good game when no one play water maps ? lol
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Aussie Drongo’s take on the topic:
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I like Drongo’s take on this.
The begining is spot on " I think i even saw it on official forums, and you guys know how those guys are like.
And his theory about MS wanting to sell Game Pass is kind of spot on.
- Because of this no matter how much people scream at the devs nothing will change as lomng as Game Pass brings profit. And it makes money. Thats why others copied the model.
The truth is that the Hugher-Ups don’t even read the forums (discord steam etc) they only care about the ratings (BTW still at Very Positive) and profit.
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This means that no matter what the Devs want (and for what i’ve seen they care about the game) the final decision is on the Publishers.
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And profit can be made with a well chosen date for a new DLC (be it at wololo or winter).
Another thing that they both agree is the communication wich needs improvement.
Well one positive note is that by this rate, game will be release-ready next autumn. A year after the actual release albeit, it’s still somewhat commendable given the track record of Relic. That said, I’m still not holding my breath for this game to be anything more than a mediocre RTS like Grey Goo or Iron Harvest.
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For me, Age oF Empires 4 does not make much sense in its current form. I expected it to be a game that would span the period from the outbreak of World War I to the end of XX century, and would allow you to fight tanks, planes (e.g. from the “biplane” era to jet planes), ballistic missiles. It could stop at the times of the 80-90s of the twentieth century to limit the amount of development and the difficulty of creating the game itself (i.e. WW1 era is like Feudal Age) WW2 era is Castle Age cold war era is the new Imperial Age).
Instead, we got the 3D version of Age of Empires 2, which could simply be called AoE2 3D or AoE: Middle Ages.
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