Latin American general post

[Siegelad4112]

@Konahrik1140

Unfortunately, they decided that it was more important to add Asian, African, and European civilizations to the game that dealt with the colonization of the American continent.

It was clearly very necessary to add more civilizations not directly related to the theme of the game instead of adding more game modes, better campaigns, and more maps for Central and South America.

Clearly a game is only maintained thanks to the 200/300 competitive players and not the 4500/5000 casual players.

Sorry if I sound very aggressive with this, but I genuinely hate how they shit on the soul of the game and prostituted the theme just to scratch a little string on Europeans and Asians.

The world doesn’t evolve around your racist and nationalistic mind of America (ESPECIALLY Latin America) being more important than 3 continents combined.

This is Age of Empires, not Age of America. The original colonization theme made the game much more Eurocentric than adding anything outside of America that isn’t related to colonization.

There’s an excellent reason why the last DLCs aren’t focused on America (on top of the fact the we got USA and Mexico as DLCs in DE) many players got tired of the same forced theme when finally African Royals and Knights of the Mediterranean made the game enjoyable without forcing players to play on American and Asian maps only.

[Konahrik1140]

@Siegelad4112

The world doesn’t evolve around your racist and nationalistic mind of America (ESPECIALLY Latin America) being more important than 3 continents combined.

At no point did I say anything racist, nor did I say anything remotely nationalistic. I said the game had a theme, and in my opinion, it was a mistake not to focus on it.

You can disagree, and that would be reasonable, but making things up is offensive and disrespectful.

---

@Konahrik1140

Sorry if I sound very aggressive with this, but I genuinely hate how they shit on the soul of the game and prostituted the theme just to scratch a little string on Europeans and Asians.

Edit: This translation is incorrect; if you based your assumption of racism on this, I regret to inform you that the final sentence is wrong.

@Konahrik1140

Sorry if I sound too aggressive about this, but I genuinely hate how they ruined the soul of the game and prostituted the theme just to squeeze a little money out of Europeans and Asians.

This is a closer translation of what I said, and in any case, I’m complaining about Microsoft and its obsession with European and Asian markets.

This bothers me because, for me, the theme of the game matters more than a company’s economic speculation.

[MatM1996]

@Siegelad4112

There’s an excellent reason why the last DLCs aren’t focused on America (on top of the fact the we got USA and Mexico as DLCs in DE) many players got tired of the same forced theme when finally African Royals and Knights of the Mediterranean made the game enjoyable without forcing players to play on American and Asian maps only.

Yes, the game showed its full potential when it went into Africa and Europe; they should have continued down that path after the Baltic DLC, adding civilizations like Kongo and Zulu or even Imerina…

[RatcicleFan]

I’d have loved to see Egyptians, Brazilians, and more Asian and Native American civs (and an Asian rework to make them less convoluted).