I’d invite you to read the open letter I wrote to World’s Edge regarding AOE3’s abandonment and you might understand why. The anger is justified and it is directed solely at the management at World’s Edge who made the constant decisions to neglect and abuse a deeply loyal audience. The anger is due to a betrayal of the highest order. While it can certainly get out of hand and unfortunately turn spiteful, that is hardly unusual for a game and passion that hundreds of thousands of people have individually sunk literally thousands of hours of into. Heck, spite and toxicity is seen all over the place in the Age franchise, even if people don’t want to admit it. I saw a comment in AOE4-land today saying “I’m sorry your life sucks so bad that you find not getting some useless cosmetics as ‘so sad’ and ‘toxic positivity.’”
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