look, im all about default AQ on ranked, but your argument is not the right way of pointing this debate. people play with AQ in QM because its forced. In ranked its an option (an unfair option, but option nonetheless).
Is the thread title saying “Crisp”? “This game is CRISP,” as in crunchy good like snacking on your favorite chips?
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And do you think a company like Microsoft didn’t think about this when they launched the game at the end of the year? They were just irresponsible and counted on a passive community that would swallow everything without question.
In the game War Thunder, Gaijin changed the way in-game currency was used. The community united and stopped playing the game for days, forcing the developers to apologize and revert the changes.
Here, the passive community won’t offer the same resistance, and they know it. They know that the current players are accepting whatever garbage is thrown on their plate. It’s common knowledge that companies care less and less and deliver lower quality every time: The fact that the images of the gods are made by AI already shows a major problem that many people just accept.
The general consumer average is tolerating this kind of nonsense more and more, and developers, knowing this, are screwing everyone over—just like they’re screwing us over right now. But the community is too cowardly to make any noise.
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I work for a pretty sizeable company. 10,000 employees or so.
Employees still get annual leave.
And comparing it being six or seven weeks since the last patch to a company trying something with microtransactions makes it kinda clear that you just want a soapbox. A discussion takes more than that, sorry. But go on calling folks cowards. I wish you the best.
The beta builds of this game got updated just a few days ago, and also in late december. The game will get updated. They probably want to deliver a huge bug fix update to handle all the issues that have been discovered since release.
I didn’t buy AoM:R because I saw trailers, videos, and gameplay that clearly told me I wouldn’t enjoy the game. Many issues and design decisions I didn’t like. [Correction: I might actually enjoy it on the surface level, or for a while, but I noticed several things that would bother me or negatively distract me in every match I played. AoE3 was a game that taught me to be careful with that sort of thing]
Did you pre-order or not watch media pre- and post-launch before buying?
If you could wait until after the holidays for the game to launch in the first place, certainly you could’ve used all the holiday time evaluating whether or not the game is on the quality par you need and if it would bring you any joy. You said yourself companies care less and less about quality, so that should’ve been your signal right there to wait before buying, and see what others say about the game, as well.
It’s too bad we’re trained to do this, but I highly recommend being more hyper-focused on looking at videos before buying games next time, if you weren’t already. I stopped pre-ordering 99% of games years ago because I got screwed over too many times by finding out too late that the game wasn’t for me. It is very rare that I buy games on Day One, let alone Week One, Month One, or Year One. There is so much gaming competition out there, so I can get distracted for a long while as I check reviews, media, and such
Are you sure? People felt the same for V&V DLC, but I think that got debunked when the artist’s husband posted:
Here’s a thread about AoM:R’s art, specifically. I will read more thoroughly later, but in viewing random posts there, I don’t see the certainty that they’re AI-generated. Still, it can be a concern, for sure:
January 17, 2025. The game is still CR***P. Hahaha Not a single update, not even a single hotfix, nothing. The strategy of treating the devs like children who can’t handle strong criticism hasn’t been working so well, has it?
@_MarakuJa1 still here ? I thought you decided to leave the AOM community 
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Because he loves the game as mch as we do. It’s just his usual hot tempered mood i guess 
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The Apollo 11 mission took man to the Moon and brought him back in a total duration of 8 days, 3 hours, and 18 minutes.
Let’s say I went to the Moon and back, twice just to be sure, and came back to this forum again, but the developers were still on vacation. But let’s give them a bit more time, right? Hahaha Unbelievable how far human passivity can go.
You got the point. And the fact is, this strategy of passivity doesn’t even work within the game itself. Staying at your base, slowly collecting resources without upgrading your tools or attacking with your army, is a great way to let the enemy crap on you.
That’s exactly what the devs of this game are doing right now: we’re reporting bugs, they don’t care, they don’t say a word about it, and they don’t fix anything. We’re asking for news about the DLCs, they say nothing. We’re requesting balance changes, and they don’t respond. And anyone who decides to criticize them starts getting attacked by these passive creatures who act like they’re being paid to defend these useless devs.
There was even a player here who literally TAUGHT the developer how to fix an incorrect line in the game’s code. He provided the fix, and yet he was ignored. This is so shameful for a professional team. How does no one realize how serious this is?
Basically its not devs fault, but WE, as this happens to the whole franchise. The dont have to answer naything, tis th PR team responsible for that, and, again, they are part of WE, not FE, CA or Tantalus
However, they certainly have access to the forum and the community’s demands. If they’re not doing anything about it, then it’s their fault, yes.
_MarakuJa1 wrote:
The Apollo 11 mission took man to the Moon and brought him back in a total duration of 8 days, 3 hours, and 18 minutes.
Apollo 11 cost about $3 billion in today dollars and likely more than 400,000 engineers, scientists and technicians. Imagine what AoM:R would be like with that budget and team!
Do you realise that they dont have the POWER to choose if they can tell you, me and everyone else anything? World’s Edge holds the franchise rights, World’s Edge decides what can and cannot be said, World’s Edge decides what can and cannot be done. Blame WORLD’S EDGE for it, not the devs.
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Ok, I blame them. Now what? For this specific lack of communication, I blame them, but should I also blame them for hiring a bad team of devs? Or do you have any other acronym for me to blame? CA, BF, ZO, SE, ABC?
I was just ironically saying that two trips to the Moon could have been made since my post was created, and yet no bugs have been fixed or balancing has been done in the game. It’s just that when I made the post, people started complaining that “recently” (the previous month) there had been an update fixing some bugs.
Now you ask that Higher Culture you have access from the greeks and norse, maybe they can teach you how to deal with it
I hope you’re at least being paid to defend this bunch of lazy people from Microsoft.
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True… I see. But can you imagine the type of game that could be made on that budget, though?? I can’t even
I mean, to be honest, 5 dev studios working on the game but they release updates really slow…
The dev team can’t do much about this when they get the calls from the managing studio, in this case World’s Edge.
And mind you, as a fan of the series, one thing that extremely annoyed me the last couple of years was the lack of communication. It didn’t always used to be like that, especially during the pre-Definitive Edition days.
Here’s e.g. a dev blog from August 2015 when Forgotten talked about the development of the then upcoming Africa DLC for AoE 2:
It started roughly around the time AoE 4 was announced in 2017 that communication mostly consisted of radio silence.
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