So the one-year community challenge of skin unlocking (which to me is a more like a filler for the long vacuum, but at least it is an event) has finally ended. And now we have…a restart!
Do you really think the majority of players who are still playing now have missed that skin and really need another month to reclaim it? Isn’t the whole purpose of the thing player retention? Do you think those people who only open the game once a week for the reward will do that anymore if it is a repetitive reward from a year ago? Maybe you really do because you cannot even find one employee in the whole company who has played the game once a month.
There are a lot of past awards that people are more likely to miss. You can easily come up with another series of filler events or challenges if you don’t want to do much additional work and I could do with that (though I shouldn’t if this is any other game).
So nobody foresaw the event is going to end yesterday and made any action in advance? You have 12 months to do one thing, and you still refuse to?
Does anyone from the company also remember there was an Aztec skin that failed and will be granted in the end? I’d even do with another month of challenge for that skin. And yet that did not happen either. The whole thing seems to just have rolled over automatically. Hadn’t anyone made the herculean task of adding it back to the schedule? (You have 11 months) Nobody even walked up and turned the thing off?
Are you telling me nobody has ever touched the game for the past year? Are you literally not going to do or say anything before the DLC? (and hell knows when that will drop)
BTW and nobody said a word about the event reset either. We don’t know if this is an intended reboot for people to reclaim past rewards (which of course needs to be advertised) or an oversight that will be fixed. Just like the civ rotation calendar. It has been obsolete for long and nobody thought of updating it. Did you even realize it exists before people pointed it out?
And we are now in the midst of the long weekend in US and we all know nobody will come up and do anything about it. Just let the car run without anyone at the wheel for three days or three months who cares. Like this is not something as important as a civ name change that you’ll need to work through the weekends and write a whole article about right?
I’m not buying the “they are busy with AOM” excuse anymore. This is trivial. The simplest thing to do is simply take that challenge page down. You have 12 months to do it. I can do it for free.
The last premium excuse we gave you was “maybe they planned a full year of filler events so that they can keep us playing when they are busy and it will end the exact time when AOMR is released”. We took more efforts coming up with that excuse than what you did to the game. I wonder if any other company would be granted such a brain gymnastic before people start to riot. And in the end the event doesn’t even end properly.
We have been screaming for the basics of the basics that any functioning company will do, including yourself. We have become fine with no patches, then no news about patches, then nothing at all. Even the most trivial support is now gone. I can’t imagine the company being so focused at AOM that not a single person can have a spare time for 10minutes.
When you see this kind of rant elsewhere they are asking for patches or updates. Here we are ranting for someone to click a f***ing button.
the handle of AOE3DE should now be studied by every business disciple scholars for the next 20yrs as a classic case study of how to fail in product management.
Well said my friend. We have been nice, patient, and loyal - including making excuses for everything even when it was unwarranted, just to give the utmost benefit of the doubt.
This has gone way, way too far for way, way too long. It’s criminal negligence and I hope an ex-Dev comes on here anonymously to write up their horror story with upper management and why everything became an absolute shit show.
Even if/when the content does arrive, we shouldn’t really forget about said criminal negligence and rejoice over “any update” at this point. We have to pounce when there’s any bit of communication and ask all of the questions then, when there’s a small chance we might catch their attention.
Not to mention, we’ll also be super scared once the next patch comes out, rightfully so, about how long we’ll have to wait for the inevitable game-breaking things to be hotfixed…which they won’t, for months.
WE without fail makes it needlessly difficult to maintain positivity towards the game. I tried recently but now my pitchfork is out again.
What makes 3DE so difficult to properly market and provide the basics? How on earth do you screw up a DLC reveal that bad? Why are they so uncomfortable doing just about anyything related to 3DE and 3DE alone?
Their Incompetence and negligence is a choice and I want to know why.
At least we have the chance to get the Aztec queen next month, that was missed the first time. I I hope after that the dlc comes with new unlockables. It’s November by then so late 2024 fits
I was just about post the same thing. Ok, I get it: not every player had already unlocked the bear explorer. However, what’s the point of offering the same stuff from one year ago if the majority of the player base already have it.
Perhaps it was foolish of me to expect some secret unlockable skins, but if the point of this month was to no leave behind on perks to players who, for a reason or another, couldn’t make it the last time; why don’t offer alternative rewards to playerss that already had the bear skin? Maybe earn four tokens to change for past events’ avatars, or make a system for you to choose which skin to unlock. IDK.
You didn’t had to roll a full expansion pack, just a little care for your product.
But at this point, Valve is doing more for TF2 than Microsoft for this game.
Indeed. I actually got in a fight both in school and at work just to watch that stupid stream. Arrived already late. Watch through a boring long hours about a competitive game I care a flying f*** about…and in the end, they only aknowledge the DLC existed, and tryied to sell hype for a thing everybody already knew about it. Another two euro civs. I honestly feeled more hyped to the euro natives than for the two sentences they muttered of AoE3.
They even feel like unconfortable to talk about this game, WTF.
Let me say it straight:
If anyone from the company or the development team has shame, come out and say a word.
This is becoming intolerable. I can’t imagine how you could sleep at night with an unfinished simple work that you have 12 months to do. I’ve seen bad game managements a lot. None of them is worse than you.
10 months ago when I criticized their slow reaction to a simple bug (8 crossbows. I can fix it in 5 minutes. And it was a time when the game just got an f2p. Imagine the influx of new players getting screwed when sending one of the most basic cards that several civs will use) and some people thought I was overreacting.
Man I think you should get off forums for a while
We all know that our community is getting ignored but For the love and Sake of your mental health, take a rest pal!
Call me crazy, but I don’t think any developer at any company cares what happens to their games, all they care about is getting their paycheck at the end of the month.
They have been working on Age of Mythology Retold and the new DLC for AoE III DE so I am not surprised we haven’t been getting anything new so far and are recycling community event challenges.