The big question is who do you want to attract to AoE3DE?
- AoE 2/4 players
- Old AoE3 players that haven’t tired AoE3DE yet
- People that are new to AoE in general
AoE 2/4 players
Attracting those people would take them away from other games of the same publisher. So that would not be beneficial at all.
What do they gain if people play AoE3 instead of AoE2/4?
I think people here focus on this to much. Don’t be jealous of AoE2/4 being more successful. This is not a competition!
Old AoE3 players
I think most of them already tried out AoE3DE or never will.
There is maybe a few that tried out AoE3DE on release and run into many bugs and then never tried again.
New people
We should focus on those people. How to make this game more attractive for people without AoE experience.
We have one big helping factor at this. Games Pass. A lot of people already have access to AoE3DE, we just need to make them try it out.
Getting friends to play the game
- More interesting Coop content (and more marketing for the Coop content that is already there)
- Help for new players like an Auto Economy feature (“Auto Economy” for AoE3 please)
- Console support (Not everyone has a PC)
Unique new stuff
- New real campaigns
- Interesting civilisations (They already do this pretty well)
- New game modes (official version of popular fun maps)
- Game modes that don’t require you to set up a deck
Coop Mode ideas:
- Home Cities that have to be levelled up like in Vanilla AoE3.
- Free civilisation choice in Missions
- Many different Scenarios
- Many secondary Missions in those scenarios for extra XP
- Different modifiers to Scenarios so the keep feeling fresh
- Regular content updates
- Events with unique modifiers to Scenarios
- Gameplay first design (not based on historic events)
This is inspired by the very successful Coop mode in Starcraft 2.