Imagine someone entering a forum about a game he does not care about, going through ~100 replies to find an “inappropriate” one and using it as the opening for a whole lecture of bashing, and pretending to be “sorry” in the end.
Living like this is very tiring. If you want to bash at others’ miseries just go ahead like I’ll be doing for yours.
Ill-will towards the other games isn’t helpful, even given the trolls who came over here to be obnoxious. At the same time, the way they handled the cancellation was horrible. And I think they lost a lot of loyal customers who feel manipulated and lied to given the timings of various announcements.
AoE 2 is not responsible for AoE 3’s situation mate. They’re developed by entirely different people within FE.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not happy for AOE2 “sinking” nor am I wishing for it to sink. I have a strong feeling it WILL sink under World’s Edge’s horrible management, and I’d be so happy and thrilled when you guys pay for your apathy (or, epicaricacy, I assume?) today.
In fact, if not for MS’s financial cuts, we would NOT have known they made the news about a DLC that they never intended to work on. In fact they have not worked on it up till now, a whole year after the announcement. Without the external pressure, they can continue to string us along for another year. If they can so easily break their promises on something “unimportant” and get away with it, they can always do the same when it comes to their “important” games.
BTW, I’ve been playing AOE2 for years. The game is now far beyond a stage where I can play it for another few years without anything new, and I’ve decided not to buy anything from this company in the future due to their dishonesty.
This i think is key for outsiders
Most (theres always a few malcontents) want nothing more than WE to take accountability for how poorly they treated and ignored aoe3 for the last 2 years. Broken promises, corporate lack of interest, no recognition (ive made lists in other places) and lack of basic bugfixing all while told “we hear you” or “its being looked into.” We all know we the blacksheep. Weve lived through death before. Yet for 2 years we gor strung along so WE could use use us as a cashflow and promote other games (seriously so many “new” features of aom/aoe4 are aoe3 core stuff yet touted as totally new). 2 years community leaders and modders could have been fixing games waiting for support that never came.
The truth is no one wins when 1 title gets this treatment. If aoe community tolerates this behavior it will spread. Yall ever had a PuP for a spring patch January that got delayed radio silence until JULY? That then had the same goddamn bugs reported in the PuP? So then WE simply stopped having PuP? Never addressing why? This behavior should be nipped. This is one of dozens of beyond grey area examples btw.
Aoe3 is dead but I’d hope as a community and consumers we’d be more interested to making it clear this behavior will not be ok. Instead we’ve mostly got people who think it would.never happen to their title (cept AoM which is already getting silent treatment and canned answers to major bugs) or people comming to mock us. Sad if this is the state of the community. Because as a series we all rise together but can unravel apart.
You came in here to imply we aren’t even playing an Age of Empires game? Thanks, I’ll forward your opinion over to the community managers and they can file them where they’ve been putting all our bug reports.
This, always this. Anything bad that happens to AoE2 and the people who only play that game should be welcomed in the AoE3 community
Someone jumps into a thread he has nothing to do with, diverges the whole discussion to whether AOE3 is an AOE, while claiming to be “sorry” and having no other purposes.
Sounds very sincere. More sincere than the official announcement. WE should fire their own communication staff and hire you.