it’s been 9 months that we haven’t received any update, the game has many bugs, we haven’t received patches, we don’t know about dlc news. you don’t appear anywhere on us, no communication. why this apathy? can someone finally come out of you devs to inform us about what is happening? what you are doing is just continuing to upset people
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Maybe they are scared of us 
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I’d be scared of the teacher if I didn’t do my homework.
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They may be afraid of dissatisfied customers who demand compensation. 
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Yep, this is ridiculous now.
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Only 9 months that’s pretty weak, I am sure they can do way better than this (no sarcasm intended) 
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Don’t worry, for the month of October or November you should see news for the new expansion of Poland and Denmark, the deadline is December for the release of the new DLC, also the assets in steamdb were finished in August which suggests that the new dlc is already finished and they are just waiting for a specific date to release information
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I m not sure anymore
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That’s it. AOE3 is just the testing ground for them.
They dump new mechanics into it. If some of them work, they will implement them in the other games.
They gather our suggestions on UI, QoL, player guidance, sp contents, etc. so that they could make their next game not a “failure” like AOE3.
They even hear from our feedback on how to advertise, how to communicate, how to demonstrate (or pretend) care and dedication, how to showcase the strengths of one of their own products (one that they themselves know little about), how to do the bare minimum to keep their players happy, so that they can better cater to the players of the other games.
They learn from all the “mistakes” they did with AOE3. They harvested the feedback from the players WHO PAID THEM to test their experiments so that they can use them to improve their more important games.
After all, “their next new RTS game” has all the features and care you asked for, and has corrected all the mistakes they had before, so why don’t you all migrate to it?
This is the situation. This is how this so called “series” prospered.
As for the actual players who are unfortunate enough to live next to the testing ground, who cares? The majority are having a great time. Like, would you mourn for the lab mice when you benefit from modern medical science?
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Getting a Console Edition would be nice for AoE III
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Yes, by mid next year…it would be a good way to celebrate the 20th anniversary with AoE 3 DE coming to Xbox…
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Makes sense 20th anniversary!
If so need to let people who host games know if someone is using a controller instead of mouse and keyboard.
Big investment, it would have benefits for the company?
Best use the money to make DLCs
It is very evident that Forgotten Empires and the other Development teams have limited capacity.
The development of Age of Mythology Retold has taken up significant resources away from all Age of Empires titles.
AoE2DE has not received any balance changes since March and no real DLC in almost a year. And this game is the Cash Cow of the Franchise.
AoE4 has seen a little more patches recently but that is likely because Relic is not working on AoMR at all.
The developers could easily avoid all the complaints by just directly communication what is going on.
No idea why they are so restrictive in the communication. Other publishers have no issue with talking about game development months or even years before the release and being open about design decisions while accepting community feedback early in development.
AoE is just always very close until very shortly before release.
I know that there are a lot of people out there that are incredibly stupid and do not understand the concept of “unfinished” and will complain about clearly unfinished things being unfinished.
There was even such a case again where one review of the release version of AoMR was based on the closed beta version and gave the game a worse score because of things like the beta god portraits.
But I still think it’s worth being more open about the development. The benefits outweigh the costs for sure.
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Now that there’s a trailer for AOM China dlc, maybe we’ll get some resources freed up for the AOE3 dlc? Right?
stares intently at the screen cap for the Polish & Danish dlc ‘announcement’
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AOMR Chinese trailer already out.
It is planned to release this year.
Most assets seem to be already finished.
“Late 2024” is only three months ahead.
Same developer team as we all know.
They still don’t say s**t about AOE3.
I don’t know how many copium one has to take to believe they can still deliver the AOE3 DLC later this year.
Look at the forgotten empires home page. AOE2 is “the most popular game”, AOE1 is “the first game”.
You really don’t have anything good to say for AOE3 so the only uniqueness in its description is “the last game”.
Now you have something to say: “the only AOE game that has a DLC announced before everyone but got F’ed!”
For some more good laugh: AOE3 is put at the very bottom of the list.
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Saying “they are always restrictive in communication” “other games too” is downplaying the current situation.
Like, they could not help to tease the AOM DLC and its planned release date even before the release of the main game.
AOE2 and 4 still receives patches and announcements and announcements to appease the players 24/7.
This is how “restrictive communication” on “limited capacity” would look like. They know very well how to adjust to the situation, make good use of their resources, and still do a decent job.
While here? We don’t even get a single sentence about why the monthly challenge just rolled over for a month already. That does not require any work.
The true problem is far beyond “limited capacity”. This is obvious discrimination.
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That has a pretty simple reason:
None of the Definitive Editions ever cut any content from the original game or any DLC that came before them. Both AoE2DE and AoE3DE had new civilisations added on release too.
AoMR does not include the Chinese, nor any other new civilisations besides 1 new Major god for the Norse.
So they had to include 2 DLC with 2 new civilisations in the Premium Edition to make the contents of the game somewhat keep up with AoE2DE and AoE3DE.
Discrimination?
I don’t think that term is the right one here.
They have 0 obligations to release any patches or any new content for the game. They can always choose to just stop supporting the game because it’s their game.
Age of Empires 1 Definitive Edition got 0 new civilisations any stopped getting new patches long ago.
AoE2 ROR was released later but it has been basically abandoned too and only added 1 new civilisation, in a game where civilisations have 0 unique content other then bonuses and missing things in the tech tree.
Their communication is bad across the whole Franchise, they rarely release road maps and even then they don’t say much.
The last roadmap for AoE2DE was years ago and we still don’t know if we got all the things they teased on it.
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