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At least one AoE3 player per day: omg guys is the game dying
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Options for a higher pop cap would save itš
People like that clearly must be very young and are raised on this new multiplayer breed of always-online games. The vast, VAST majority of classic games, including RTS games stopped receiving any expansions years and sometimes decades before they ādiedā out, before being replaced with sequels. Many just go on.
You can play this game even if it doesnāt receive new event or factions, just like you could with OG AoE III or other installments.
Itās especially crazy to say this game is dead in the context of this specific genre.
Game received a remaster after 15 years! After that it got TONS of updates, free and paid civs, expansion.
Original AoE III Complete Edition had 14 civs. In 3DE we have 22 civs!
Iām not going to reinstall old game to count, but it feels like we have at least 3x number of maps. And thatās on top thousands of small tweaks, changes, new systems, mechanics, cards, units, many minor civs and now Noble Houses etc.
Even if (somehow) official servers go down, on PC there are ways around that. How can a game like that ādieā? Even AoE: Online that was shut down, lives as expanded, free fan revival project.
Yeah, game is dying. How heartbreaking! We should tell that Age of Mythology fans. Or Empire Earth fans. Or Command and Conquers fans. Or Battle for Middle Earth fans. Or WarCraft fans. Or Starcraft fans. Or Dawn of War fans. Or Rise of Nations fans. Or Supreme Commander fans.
Iām sure they will shed a tear hearing about our misfortunes 
BTW At least Homeworld and Sins of a Solar Empire fans will be getting something.
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I do not understand why people think that AOE4 is reviving. The game had a spike of concurrent players in laterAugust and now itās down by 50% at just over 15.000 players. AOE2 is stable at 20k. AOE3 is 4-5k.
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One thing that would motivate me to play this game more and I imagine that like some old players, it would be to speed up the deck rework of the European civis, It is being very slow, a little more than 6 months ago when they started with the British Iām afraid it would take them without exaggeration 2 more years to finish the remaining 6, 2 more years I donāt know if the game is really alive at that moment, it would be good if they at least launch 2 rework, at least personally they motivate me I like to read the patches, the competitive one is getting to me in a certain turtle start, or in team, the exaggerated versatility of modern civis (Mexico / USA / Ethiopia)
They also did all 3 warchiefs civs, the Chinese and the Inca. I donāt think theyre moving that slow.
I wouldnt be surprised to see French or Germans next tho, lots of usable assets for them in KotM.
Portugese will probably come when the eventual Brazilians get added.
SĆ,yo tambiĆ©nā¦de hecho yo estoy variando de AoEs;actualmente el AoE que mĆ”s estoy jugando es el AoE Online y cada tanto vuelvo al 2 DE y al 3 DE por los eventos;del AoE 4 solo tengo para hacer las maestrĆas nomĆ”sā¦
Of course, in fact there is almost no RTS of the colonial era besides AoE 3:Empire Total War, Shogun 2 Total War, the Cossacks saga and American Conquest and nothing elseā¦
It would have been weird the same, plus Microsoft wasnāt going to squander the hook of the name āAoE 3ā to attract AoE 2 players; the fault for it failing lies with the AoE 2 players, who had another āAoE 3ā in mindā¦ I as I started directly with AoE 3 that nostalgia for AoE 2 does not affect me in the leastā¦
Yes, that is AoE 3 and AoE 4 feed off each other, AoE 4 receives new players and some of those players may decide to try AoE 3 and end up keeping the gameā¦and in turn, they can use AoE 3 as a testing ground to then implement more unique mechanics in AoE 4ā¦everyone winsā¦
For fear of alienating new and old players and the same thing happens to them that happened with AoE 3 that went from innovators and many fans of AoE 2 crucified them for it xdā¦
Of course that is the idea, in fact the stealth of the units and the experience for the Ottomans and the buildings that collect resources automatically are concepts of AoE 3ā¦
Worse, if you consider that TAD came out in 2007, although its mobile version came out in 2010ā¦
I would still prefer the AoE 3 DE and the AoEO to a possible AoM DEā¦ although they would still all be wonderful gamesā¦ in fact I want an AoM DE for the simple fact that Arkantos and Castor deserve itā¦
Of course if AoE 3 is dying, which is left to the rest of the sagas you mentionedā¦AoM doesnāt even have a DE versionā¦ Empire Earth was dismembered by EE3,CnC was reduced to a mobile game at the level of Clash Royale with CnC Rivals,Warcraft was consumed by WoW,Starcraft is in a fallen layer,DoW became a MOBA in the year 40k,and BftME,RoN and SupCom were left without a third installmentā¦
Is 3 DE really losing many players to 4? 4 itself seems to be in decline. 3 has always been a niche game without a large playerbase. 3DE will be fine for several more years.
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Yes, AoE 3 already has its player base and itās not going up or downā¦ between 6000 and 9000 players will stay and alreadyā¦ instead AoE 4 can surpass AoE 2 in numbers of players or stagnate between AoE 2 and AoE 3ā¦
In the patch notes they do say a special event is upcoming!
Also, keep in mind Bert said thereād be announcements before October 25th too.
No, itās not. I hope I have answered your question
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mmm yes, i gave up on aoe3 DE, same bugs after 2 years. And im sure aoe4 its the same, so i just changed to better games
and i dont have people to play age 3 de as before
IV cannot replace III for me. Because IV has neither the Pirates of the Caribbean nor the Western Gunslingers.
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Almost 12 hrs and only one post to the board. This means something.
I liked AoM a lot more than this and played it a lot more thru the years, I think it has a great polish, fun game modes, and was even way better in its prime than any of their games. AoE3 is like a weird game, itās AoM with rifles and shipments to simplify the simple process even more. I recently came back to learn the game and mastered it in ~1-2 months. I wouldnāt say itās their best game but itās certainly unique.
That being said Iām sure there will always be games on it. AoE4 is entirely different, new devs, and has glaring issues where only non-rts/totally new players could ever actually support it based on being tricked theyāre supporting the āentire seriesā. It was a brandsteal to sell an incomplete game, that ended up under-developed, not even map editors that added many gamemodes and years of variety to the others, itās plain and simple.
When you tell a totally new team of devs to develop a game series where the old devs retired already and made their last game over 10 years ago itās purely a marketing ploy. It ended up not being good and having glaring gameplay issues that make it boring, aside from the childish agendas such as female khans- it feels entirely like it was made purely for 10 year olds and quick cash not to please any sort of hotties.
Imo even AoE3, being one of their weirdest games, is still better than AoE4 by the new devs, not for any favoritism or dumb false idea that āold is betterā but because it actually has more things and functions better. Any player would do better to just learn a civ and have some fun on AoE3 than to learn the ā1 unit-1 siege typeā meta that is just boring and result of AoE4ās stagnant development. It was 1$ to try, should have been 1-10$ anywhere based on its performance.
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It seems pretty stable. I doubt itās going anywhere for a very long time.
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