Why I am quitting AoE3

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@ArrivedLeader22

You can’t be sure.
Forgotten Empires mod was advertised and widely (mistakenly) perceived as a “true update” for a 10+ year old game many people only heard of or discarded long ago.
It somewhat encouraged the release of HD and that is the beginning of the whole story.

And BTW AOE2 had far more gimmicky stuff than AOE3 from the very beginning. Literally every of its unique unit is gimmicky.
AOE3 to include a larger number of “unique units” (most of them with only a stat tweak) has standardized too many things. Same basic tech tree (AOE2 has very trimmed tech trees). Same upgrade scheme (every AOE2 unit upgrades with a different stat increase and change in its counter bonus). Very few true unique unit (I’d say none in vanilla). I even consider it as less interesting. It has only reached AOE2’s level of gimmicky just recently.

If a dedicated “pikeman” tag is what you call “gimmicky”, most other RTS have far greater number of far more “gimmicky” stuff than this. They just didn’t show you. They had better not, or you will complain.

If adding hundreds of units with diffrent confusing names but they are actually the same unit is not gimmck, I don’t know what gimmick is. Maybe I should call it meanless or redundent design? If you think this is fine, then I am tired to explain .

When I was playing AoE2 or RoN I always play full Random. All I have to do is to quickly check the tech tree and then I can play the game casually, I don’t need to remember a trivial thing like Camels have ship armor or whatever. But in AoE3, If I don’t have a proper deck or mistake runners for normal infantry then I am dead. In AoE2 every civ has only 1~2 unique unit and all civs share the same tech tree. How come it will be more gimmck then AoE3? (Again I am not saying AoE3 is bad or AoE3 should be like AoE4 and I am a casual player! ) Or you just don’t play multiplayer? I always thought what you said was completely sophistry, but I was too lazy to refute them one by one. It is really tiring to explain in English.

@Osprey23103109

And multiplayer is not as important. Most RTS games thrive due to a big single player community.

Only a small percetage of any RTS players play MP. Just ask anyone with stats.

I can hardly imagine anyone will play a single player game forever (play with AI? come on…). It’s multiplayer make a game alive, espeically RTS. Lots of people only play RTS for its mutiplayer. If you don’t agree with such a obvious thing, then I am nothing to say…Rise of Nations is my favorite RTS but I don’t touch it anymore, just because its multiplayer is dead. I guess there are still dedicated modders making new mod, but it is meanless for me if it is difficult to find a game to play.