Most criticisms about the current state of the game do not and should not direct to the actual developers, i.e. those who do the bugfixes, etc.
Obvious fact is the current support of the game is not only worse than the well-received AOE series (with two games of course), but also worse than what it received before.
If the higher management of the COMPANY moves the crew to other projects, or gives the project low priority, or has little idea of the state of the game, it is natural that the support will become worse.
This is far beyond the good will of any individual person or team. All people make mistakes. The outcome depends on the robustness of the quality assessment. Itâs not that one single super dedicated and enthusiastic person could do miracle. If the team is short-handed, then more buges will be caused, fewer bugs will be fixed in time, and the communication will become poorer because nobody will have any idea what the timeline would be like. Not to mention if they are not ordered to do those things. This is what we see now.
Now who makes the team short-handed?
The game has almost doubled player base now. It is not doing as good as the well-received AOE series (with its two games), but still much better than itself before, and also much better than most other newer or older RTS titles on the market. There is definitely potential audience for this game.
The COMPANYâs decision to cut support on the game with zero communication when it is doing much better is unacceptable, and even self-contradictory. I think they owe us an explanation.
Or maybe the COMPANY does not care about how this less important game and its less important players are doing at all, then CONGRATULATIONS.
Unfortunately, these necktie wearers (those who take decisions) donât think they owe you anything. They are the ones who decide whether the developpers can communicate or not. And you âhowling at the moonâ in every topic to express your frustration about the situation wonât change anything. These guys wonât read your messages and even if they did, theyâd sleep well at night. Sorry.
Yes, much appreciated! Itâs pretty cold these days, so the occasional flaming is actually quite heartwarming! Iâd also like to reassure everyone that we all keep thinking about Age3 and that the silence is (unfortunately) just part of the process and the industry. Nobodyâs forgotten about Age3!
Via the AoE3 Discord channel (after lots of drama!)
At the very least, the Devs are thinking about AoE3. They are aware of the silence (though I wish Worldâs Edge would address the quietness themselves).
I have to take from that small amount of text that we will get stuff (hoping on hotfixes/patches first), however we are so far down on the list, however detrimental that is for the playerbase and those potential customers whoâve tried the Trial Version. Iâm glass half-full until we get a firm âbye bye, no more supportâ message.
This. I would like to know the reasons for the delays. While I sometimes have disagreements on the topic of balance, I trust the devs care. So transparency from management would be great
TILANUS ! Karenamai demands to speak to the manager !!!
Itâs obvious they do. Itâs obvious cus when someone likes something will do things even if they donât get money for it or from it.
Thats why from all the series aoe3 de devs have delivered lots of free content in patches, skins, models, mechanics, etc. When they could have either do as aoe1-2, delivering the minimum or just making payed dlcs.
As long as there are still people who think the current situation is fully justified because reasons, or believes the company is always right, or thinks complaining about it is attacking the âdevelopersâ, or just want others to shut up, it will change a lot of things.
Stop following me around. Our conversation was over in some other thread and itâs done now. I know youâre still upset but you got to learn to let things go. Youâre really out of pocket with this one, youâre starting to unravel.
I wonder how I could follow âsomeone who replied twice in a thread I createdâ around. Maybe Iâll need to spend hours deliberately looking for that dude in every single thread I created just to harass him.
Look, now here are two things you should apologize. I sincerely invite you to do so and I will kindly accept it. Does that sound good to you?
I complimented your post and replied to someone else. And instead of thanking me youâre asking for an apology. Iâm still waiting on your apology from earlier!
Microsoft has probably directed the devs to start removing the actual game servers and then migrate everything to a pile of old Sony Walkman devices in some God-forsaken yurt in rural Tajikistan.
In the minds of the people who own the dev studio, those are the only devices both cheap and BASEMENT-QUALITY bad enough to be suitable for hosting this game.
Then theyâll probably âaccidentallyâ move the devices to an active warzone in Africa to deliberately get them and all the game data destroyed by Kony 2023 or whatever the local strongman is calling himself.
Sure thatâs obviously all the tremendous efforts required for messing up a patch and not fixing it for a month. I cannot imagine the arduous tasks they took to achieve it.
Of course they need to do faaaaaar more than just moving the project to low priority and repurposing the staff. That never happened.
