This is not a live service game. People have to adjust to that. If you want this kind of ongoing content infusions, you’re going to have to support a business model that pays for developers to develop that content. RTS games just don’t support this kind of thing like RPG-type games do, nor would we want them to. Eventually the game will be complete.
Then the 200k monthly objective is not a good choice. It had better be directly sold as a dlc like before.
BTW the game used to have small monthly patches. I don’t think it’s better in every aspect but it’s more suitable if you set the community objectives like this.
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This is sort of the issue isn’t it? As a game ages, naturally players will feel they have completed it and move on to other games. That’s ok. Developers will naturally feel they have adjusted and fine-tuned and polished things until it’s about as perfect as you can get. Eventually, the game will be done and there’s not a need for more content or balance changes. Years down the line, it’ll mostly be a handful of bug fixes, optimizations, and maybe a few QoL changes and the developers will move on. They need to continue to work on projects that pay the bills, after all.
That’s ok. That’s normal in the life cycle of software development.
Tying cosmetics to these kind of hype events is ok, but eventually, they will hit a point where there just isn’t new interest in the game and it’ll feel really bad when the monthly threshold isn’t met and the cosmetic isn’t rewarded.
Having mutators, that is, having some temporary rule-changes tied to monthly events might be a better way to inject some fresh interest into the game. As you said, new content, new balance changes are drivers of RTS interest. These appeal to your core audience as well as to the new audience, so they might be a better pathway for keeping engagement up in the long-term.
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NEWS: THE SEPTEMBER COMMUNITY CHALLENGE FAILS, THE GRAND PRIZE WAS NOT ACHIEVED!
I just wanted to let you know that the expected number of players for the Event of September was not reached. Therefore NO ONE won the September grand prize. Here I left a screenshot about 23 hours before the end, 10’000 players were missing. Unless someone confirms otherwise at the last minute, this is the absolute truth.
Anyway, another event started in October, now there is a “Spanish” (Edit: My mistake, is a “English”) hero unit as a prize, “Francis Drake”. Now I take the capture and report. Take care!
Ah…I wanted the Drake skin…
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Yo estuve hasta el último minuto del evento y solo nos faltaban 5000. Si septiembre tuviera 31 días ganabamos el evento. Una pena
Oh well, I got scared then…
Wow! It’s been 1 year!
A whole year of new Skins!
And well, I wanted to let you know that they are REPEATING the previous Skins, starting with the Russian Bear. Good opportunity if you couldn’t get the old ones.
Just one detail for the new ones:
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The rules changed, and usually 1 game a week is requested. Sometimes the algorithm fails to consider checking you, especially the first days of the week.-
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For some reason, I think the 4 Checks thing is not definitive, because once I was given the Skin for showing up the last days when the meter reached its maximum (28, 29 or 30 of the month) and I only played the 1st and last game.
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In fact, apart from the 4 weeks, what matters is that in general the majority of players have played enough to reach the meter to the maximum, the last days of the month, and then, if you play one game or a few, it is likely that they will give you the hero prize.
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Tan solo me falta la skin Azteca para completar mi colección 
Aunque los demás meses participo sin quererlo, ya tengo todas las recompensas desbloqueadas 
Sería bueno un sistema de cartas, ganas una carta por mes logrado y la intercambiar por la piel que quieras
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Yo hace un año dejé de participar de los eventos,principalmente porque no podía streamear y estuve meses sin jugar desde noviembre del año pasado hasta marzo de este año, aunque con el dlc báltico voy a volver a AoE 3 con ganas renovadas…
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Oh Boi, that register system is bugged AF. I also got the skin after playing one vs AI skirmish…however, I couldn’t get a single register for the aztec queen despite I had played almost everyday of that month. I was so angry
when that happened.
What I wish to happen is the deck points becomes used to spend on the Hero cosmetics because the deck points need more purpose of being spent than just on the customization of the Home City.
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Eso mismo Matm 
Veamos que nos depara el nuevo parche!
The Aztec skin was not unlocked that month. We failed to meet the threshold for active users that month so no one got it. The devs changed the way the event works after that month so that we can play up to 4 games, 1 per week, to participate in the event. You still only need to play 1 in the month, but you can help more by playing more now.
But again, the Aztec skin was not unlocked. No one has access to it. That is the intended design. It’s not a bug.
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Does anyone know if we won the September event to claim the Russian bear?
Do you also know if they will upload the Aztec princess for the October event?
CONNECT RIGHT NOW TO AOE III TO GET THE BEAR!
You need to connect when the bar in in the top (when 10’000 or 20’000 games has been played in the month, generally at the 28, 29, 30th o 31th of the Month) and you get the Hero.
This is the Screen that have to appear when you get the hero, and be cautious, because if you don´t connect the last days, you didn´t get the hero. I prove those during the last 12 month, so i know how it works.
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I’m commenting again to let you know that the game quota has been reached and the Aztec Skin can be unlocked.
CONNECT RIGHT NOW TO AOE III TO GET THE SKIN “AZTEC QUEEN”
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As usual, here is the new hero available to unlock if you log in today and tomorrow, “Francis DRAKE”.
I remind you again that while you have to complete the 4 games, you also have to wait for the game counter to fill up, it usually reaches the limit on the 27th or 28th. In fact, I think you can unlock it even if you haven’t played many of the games, but if you have contributed some games in the month, but you must log in now and wait for the event screen to load.
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