@Augustusman said:
I doubt that, because many of them try the game for free and mostly of them said is perfect better than AoE 2. Even one of them admit they revive the game for free.
I personally test the beta and follow the game since 2 years ago.
The game is fun, but still a beta, no enough polish and not enough civs.
As other guys said, I miss the times when developer finish the game before charge.
If you are thinking of this guys don’t were used as part of advertising or sponsor check their own fans and read commentary box.Only few of them I’m sure will be play this game without be sponsors.
They starting try to sells DLC’s…
3 people are an excuse to be greed.
Many of them did say they like the game, but many of them are also playing the game, so that doesn’t seem like too much of a coincidence. The Viper has been playing it quite a bit. He’s on the scoreboard/ladder as Lord DauT, and I see he managed to grab the number 1 spot since yesterday. That ladder is one of the things he’s gone on record as saying he preferred about this game over how it’s handled in Aoe2 where he has little control over the level of the people he plays. No, I don’t expect him to switch completely, that would be silly. But he obviously has found things to like about EA.
I would have liked the game to be more finished by the time of release, and in fact some really wild “let’s see if this works” balance changes were made in or just before the release patch (French elite light cavalry in mil1, madness), which was a weird thing to do. (These changes have been re-changed since.) Releasing later would in fact have been better for the game, since most sales still happen near release and a game that has problems on release doesn’t sell as well. But the game was supposed to release in 2017, so the date if anything seemed to have been motivated by the small company plain running out of money. That’s a thing that happens. A project is never completed, merely released. And thankfully since the age of patches for games at least this does not have to mean the end. That dropped connection ones every so many matches is not going to haunt the game to its grave. (And, you know, at least I haven’t heard of anyone completely unable to open the game upon release yet, so DestinyBit might be ahead of Forgotten Empires there.)
I also think you’re being hard on the game. There are six civs, for a game with substantial differences between the civs that’s a very normal number, maybe even on the high side. Aoe2:hd with all expansions is simply not the standard for these things, more like the ceiling. You’re also reading quite far into things. There is no sign of DLC’s on the horizon yet (to be completely fair, they are selling the soundtrack, but in their defense it’s a good soundtrack), but you’re acting like three of them will release next week and one of those will do nothing but add low poly nipples on the female villagers. Zoom it baby.
I guess we´ll just have to agree to disagree, because the impression I get from the game and the team is different than the one I see projected in your posts.