AoE2 player exclusively. I’m normally not on the AoE3 topics, but a lot of AoE2 fans were also disappointed with the event so I’ve been going back and forth seeing what’s going on.
Yeah, It really seems like MS wanted a huge franchise wide event but just didn’t have the goods, so they had to over-hype everything, in some cases to the point of outright deceit, to cover the fact they had nothing to announce.
AoE2, an up-cycled scenario pack became a “campaign focused” expansion.
AoE3, two flags became a “DLC announcement”
AoE4, a new login token thing became “a brand new season and new in-game reward”
AoM, cringe AR pegasus and Medusa and maybe 20 seconds of a monitor showing something other than code became “The team will take us behind the curtain”
AoE Mobile was the only game to have anything of substance.
They wanted an event, even though they had almost nothing to share, but figured if they lied to us to hype us up maybe we wouldn’t notice.
We noticed.