Nobody forced them to interpret Chronicle’s “success” from the entirely wrong perspective.
You thought it succeeded because they kept irrelevance outside of the main game. They thought it meant people love irrelevance.
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No dispute, but given the nature of past experiments, it’s probably for the best to give us a string of standard stuff in the future. I try to mitigate the chances of them having an entirely wrong perspective on that, especially with the attitude “customers don’t know what they want, we need to shock them with something unexpected” that’s been prevalent lately.
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I know most of you folks didn’t pay much attention to AoE3DE and what that playerbase had been dealing with for several years before WE decided to throw us into the trash bin, but these placation tactics are giving me PTSD. Sad but not surprised it is now spilling over to this game. As I predicted it would.
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But what if the reason they made these decisions are not benevolent…? What if “we did a market research and 3 kingdoms are the most know IP about china” and “dlc that have civs to ranked sell better” and “dlc with new mechanics sell better” and thats why they added heroes and 3 kingdoms…?
As a rule of thumb: if a company goes radio silence and dont want to talk about something, its because that something would make them bad and saying nothing > saying something.
The devs literally copied the text from the fabricated article on wikipedia…
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I didn’t – until the breaking news that they cancelled a DLC.
It might have been a canary in the coal mine
You probably feel sad and care as much about aoe2 as I did back then about aoe3 – a little bit but can’t truly feel the disappointment :')
Don’t worry, I definitely saw. I’m not as active on the AoE3 board, but I do play the game regularly. Still a load of bs.
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AoE3 has been my primary game since 2005 but I care about AoE2 as it was my introduction into the franchise 26 years ago so I have many fond memories. I enjoy 2DE and bought most it the DLCs. Love AoE2 and always have. Love this franchise.
I do not like where WE is taking this franchise so I speak up. Simple.
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World’s Edge goes silence sooooo often. Interesting, this silence says sooooooo much 
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I’m convinced they are AI generated reply. Nothing to be taken as seriously.
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Then that’s totally fine. It would at least be transparent. We could prove them wrong by complaining in here, in steam reviews and low selling numbers. But right now, I get the feeling they think many people wanted exactly the content we got with the dlc
Unfortunately that’s how corporate brain works. Next up get ready for Chronicles civs available for ranked.
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Yeah getting any attention from China was going to give it good sales
Sadly this DLC was going to be a success as soon as they picked China so it diesnt matter how conceptually bonkers it is, and maybe they losed on some potential sales, but they still made a lot of money
Even after it drops, AoE2 had never reached the top twenty in sales since release Im quite sure
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