As a Chinese, I have been looking forward to this DLC. For the past two months, I have been going online almost every day to check for any new news about DLC.
Now, this is the result that came out!
I would like to say that for the Chinese people, the “Three Kingdoms” is indeed a topic that we are all very familiar with. So theoretically, I don’t actually dislike seeing a DLC based on the Three Kingdoms.
But I am really angry now! Why? Because your initial propaganda seriously misled everyone! Your initial promotional image gave information about the two civs of suspected Jurchen and Tangut.
Although you may say it’s just our unrealistic speculation, that castle is clearly a Tangut style castle, and Poxi Army is also a Tangut unit!
You provided such information that everyone thought it was a DLC themed around the Song Dynasty. If the theme of this DLC is Three Kingdoms, why did you initially release such misleading information to us?
If you had hinted to us from the beginning that this was a DLC with a “Three Kingdoms” theme, and it ended up with Jurchen and Khitan included, I would have been very happy. But you initially hinted that this was a DLC themed around the Song Dynasty, but in the end it turned out to be “Three Kingdoms”. I feel completely fooled!
I have looked around various relevant forums in China and hardly saw anyone have a positive review of this DLC. The vast majority of reactions are “shock” and “disappointment”.
I actually think they were originally designed as Chronicles content, but fearing the ‘Chronicles’ label might not sell well, the developers forced them into ranked civilizations instead.
You’re right. Given that, we’re completely baffled as to why they would do that.
But if we take a conspiratorial detour here (purely speculative) — maybe there were internal power plays and they simply didn’t want Chronicles involved, period.
Just like the Sicilians, you can actually have a hundred Bo and a hundred Yue, except that these didn’t have “kingdoms” in the general sense. Of course, according to the Proto-Germanic meaning of “king”, these people were actually ruled by various local “someone of the family”.
I think Chronicles is the only good thing they did recently. Rest are just simply lame in design. The ones that are directly handled by FE themselves. FE guys are simply good at designing esports based civ design doing tiny tampers to the meta to appease pro-scene. Let’s say suddenly not wanting to drastically change Swordsman design but rather wanting to do gradual changes on feedbacks. But terrible on history designs.
they pissed into our cereal for a blatant cashgrab. They REALLY don’t had no issue with disrespecting ALMOST ALL OF THEIR playerbase just for a potential few bucks.
Those potential few players will buy the dlc, play it for a while and then move on to the next game.
We will be the ones to stay behind and keep the game relevant. They chose this course of action fully knowing these facts. The piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining and then expect us to stay respectful and not get PTFO. Truly baffling
Korea is also disappointed. The Three Kingdoms Period in China is one of the most familiar and well-known times in Korea through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and it was even popular enough to be widely cited in the media. It is all the more regrettable that AOE2 made such an error… It happened in a situation of great disappointment because Korean translators made mistranslation serious.
They should delay this DLC and rework it honestly. Rename the current khitan to tangut and add real khitan into the game. As for 3K, it should be released in some form of chronicles and banned from multiplayer.