May be the only way can save this game is——mod

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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First,sorry for my poor English.
After seen the last update.I think the devs of WE just want to ignore the AOE3 on purpose.So I think the players are the men who can save the game.I even doubt the DLC will come next year.
May be some of us can do a mod to add some new revolutions such as Ireland or Belgium.We can use the factors already in the game to combine some new revs.Just like opdepov’s prince electors revolutions mod.He just use some factors already in the game combined 5 new revs.Bravo!

I think those revs can be added in the game by the new mod:
British:Ireland
French:Switzerland
Dutch:Belgium
Russian:Tatars,Chechnya
Ottomans:Bosnia
Italian:Greece
Swedish:Norway

And also some revs can be replaced or have a chance to rev again in the new mod:
rev USA:replaced by Australia(because we have a USA civ in the game and Australia have settlers from many countries)
rev Mexico:replaced by Paraguay(because we have a Mexico civ)
The rev Australia and the rev Paraguay use the same cards as the rev USA and rev Mexico，just change the cards names,demonym and the national flags

Brazil(rev),Argentina(rev):can revolution to Uruguay

Last but not least,the Germans upgrade to age 5 can be changed into those 5 factions:Prussia,Austria,Bavaria,Saxon and Hannover
Those update will similar to the former age upgrade,but will change the demonym and the national flag

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I look forward to following your progress!

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The only way to save this game would be leaving this game in the hands of the comunity to manage it.

A volunter dev team compossed by players that would launch frequent patchs listening the community

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I’m very lost in regard to what would any of those changes do to make the game better, nevermind “save” it.

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There already many mods and some that touch on what you wish for.
Ireland, Australia or Belgium are not going to save the game (it’d do the opposite). However, you are welcome to learn modding and change the game as you see fit.

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The only way a community mod would “save” the game would be a competitive balance mod that would take over in tournaments and serve as a testing ground to fix balance issues that the devs could barrow from.

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This is what top streamers, clans and discord groups should aim for. Testing some changes (even theirs) via mods instead of waiting for a patch

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If people would playtest it

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Be the change you want to happen

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The only mod that could save the game is one that changes World’s Edge for a company that actually cares about aoe3

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WE or Microsoft? WE is under Microsoft, they are the ones holding the reins.
Let’s not flame the devs, who so far have done good things, but the ones taking decisions.

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I’m talking specifically about World’s Edge, not Forgotten Empires. And it’s quite obvious they don’t care about aoe3. Whether that’s the reason development of aoe3 has winded down or not, I don’t know. But I am sure that company has never even tried to fight for this game.

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I think they may give us nothing next year,just like this year.

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this game is gonna be trash forever. You cant play a single balanced game because player base is so small. Even with DE improvements, dlc and content the player base is still small. I say there is no hope.

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I’m sure with enough care and marketing, this game could reach peaks of 10,000 or more players on weekends. (or even on business days)

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Isn’t modded multiplayer basically what this whole DE thing came from? The day 1 patch of DE was heavily based on a community-made competitive mod, at least from what I heard from those who played AoE3 on the ESOC patch

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Sure, but it has not been handled with competitive games in mind since then.