“ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGING CURRENT GODS FROM, NOR TO MAJOR OR MINOR GOD” is my position. I think it’s both disrespectful to the original game, potentially confusing and a bad financial idea and I will go through these three points with further detail.
Disrespectful to the original game:
Many returning players play retold because it’s more convenient then the original and that there actually is more positive changes than negative ones, but count on every negative point to weigh AT LEAST TWICE as more as the positive points.
I know I sound like a bit of a grognard about this but I know people way more cranky about changes than me and they begrudgingly play with me and end up having fun, but always say “Oh wow! Walking back changes so it slightly more resembles the original was a better decicion? Who would have thought the original designers actually knew what they were doing” when patch notes reads (‘Paraphrasing here’); ‘reverted some extra damage on heavy+champion upgrade’, ‘moving fishing upgrades down an age’ and ‘Making the Egyptian spearman more of a generalist’. Just some examples that does indeed prove that the old coots had a point.
Confusing:
We already see this with Sobek (Hathor), it’s already confusing. The devs shouldn’t have done that, and it’s gonna be way worse if they would change a current minor as major. Someone would wan’t to mod back and just no, no and no.
Financial/Marketing point:
I have made this point previously in this thread, VERY FEW is going to feel excited to pay for a previous god as a 4th major God. Yippie, now I can play uuuh Hathor… Hera… Poseidon, but Atlantean… I don’t think that’s an easy sell, or at the very least, I wouldn’t buy that, no way.
We have plenty of better choises for 4th gods:
Greeks: Demeter or Hestia (the only remaining of the 12, uh 13? Olympians) maybe even Persephone (but I think she would make more sense as a minor god to Demeter, but that’s personal bias). But DON’T add Hera for all that is holy.
Egyptians: Amun, Khonshu or any of dozen gods I don’t know but would be happy knowing more about when they’re represented in AoM. But don’t confuse us and add Hathor (or Sobek).
Atlantean: Nyx, Pontus, Khaos plenty of good stuff to choose from. Earlier in this thread I expressed my views on having Poseidon as a forth god with another user which you can scroll up to see (nothing personal against Skadidesu, I just disagree with the position. Pleasant person, civil discussion, 10/10 would argue further with). But to summarise, no I don’t want Poseidon for Atlanteans.
Chinese: King Yan/Yanluo Wang (Underworld judge, can have Zhong Kui as Mythic Hero) or any other god than Huang Di which would again, cause confusion.