DLC since DE;
Lords of the West 78.46% mostly positive
Dawn of the Dukes 83.73% very positive
Dynasties of India 79.52% mostly positive
Return of Rome 48.59% mixed
The Mountain Royal 65.42% mixed
Victor and Vanquished 31.74% mostly negative
Battle for Greece 88.94% very positive
3 kingdoms???
You need to buy the DLC to review it.
So everyone who boycotts it can’t review it, obviously.
So it comes down how many people but it for the 2 medieval civs despite hating the 3 Kingdoms ones and of course on how good the actual 3 Kingdoms campaign will be.
V&V got so many bad reviews because the scenarios were actually not that good and had many bugs.
Return of Rome either got bad review from people that just bought it for the Roman civ or from people that don’t like the quality/content of the DLC, like not porting the AoE1 campaigns.
Battle for Greece has the best reviews because it offered exactly what it promised and no one had to by it to get all civilisations in ranked.
It also was just very good content too.
Everyone said Variant Civs in AoE4 and Chronicles Civs in AoE2 will result in negative reviews but it was quite the opposite.
It will depend a lot on the quality of the campaigns. Which we still know nothing about, except the Red Cliffs being the finale of all 3.
Indeed, people who don’t buy it won’t review it so it will filter much of the negative. The backlash would rather affect the base game, which people that do not own 3K can rate.
So how much will campaigns balance the 3K being available on ranked ? Let’s also not forget the big update will weigh positively on ranking it, for a fraction of players.
Last unknown, they still have 3 weeks for course-correction such as removing the 3K from ranked.
50-60%, because I’m pessimistic and feel like it will be better received than it should.
In an ideal world it’ll get 40-50%, it’s better than V&V in one aspect only: it’s “new” content. Yes, they lied during marketing like with V&V, and they are recycling scenarios too… Not to mention all the other many problems it has (Khitanguts, Xianwei, possible Microsoft exec meddling, botched Chronicles, no new unit audio). But I can’t see it being rated worse than V&V, it was an insult to the player’s intelligence.
AOE4 variant civs were accepted or tolerated because the first DLC did offer quite a few other good stuff, but not overwhelmingly welcomed. See the recent all-variant DLC on steam. It got a mixed.
Chronicles were welcomed from the very beginning.
It’s night and day indeed for AOE4.
First DLC : 2 highly demanded civs (Byzantines and Japanese), 4 variant civs, a full campaign
Second one : 2 variant civs. Only a few battles
I don’t think there will be complaints about the quantity of content for 3K. Questionable as they are, it’s still 5 new civs.
The new Variant DLC goy pretty poor reviews
Not true. You can buy, wait a few minutes, and then return it for a full refund and review it. Or review before returning.
How many will bother doing that ?
However many want to give this Frankenstein’s monster a bad review. And of course, know that you can do this.
I wilm buy it later this year
And if I make a review it will be a negatice one unless a few things change
Look at V&V. I am sure the high number of reviews (1254!) reflects that.
yeah that is probably possible.
Not sure how the refund rules on DLC are because they can’t really count how long you have played it.
Are you reviews counted when you refund the game? Sounds very exploitable.
Why? If you brought a product and returned it, are you not allowed to voice displeasure as well?
Imagine a developer publicly saying something political on Twitter that come people don’t agree with and then they start buying and refunding their game just to leave a negative review.
Like how one of the devs says some pretty dodgy stuff on the AoE reddit? (Not AoE2 one)
But anyway. You can’t just block people from leaving a review, just because it’s negative.
I mean specifically the exploit of just buying something to leave a negative review.
If you know a product doesn’t offer what you want you shouldn’t buy it in the first place, right?
I won’t go and buy the Football Manager and then complain that there is no Basketball.
I believe that the majority of buyers will be disappointed with the 3K release instead of Tanguts. It is likely to buy the game but leave negative review.
Personally, I will wait for discount.
There are supporters of this DLC said that let’s see how the sale goes. I wanna see how representative is this forum community and how accurate is the prediction of this forum.
This is a completely different situation, and you know it.
