- Sales figures low - worst selling of every new AOE renaissance games - Salt 
rubbed into the wounds and eyeBALLS of losercucks as new DLC for all the other AOE games (AOE2, AOE4, AOM) announced 
I made a Longpost about Age of Empires 3 long ago about how the then upcoming AOE3 Definitive Edition was controversial because of perceived wokeness, like reworking Native Yank factions, because the original 2005 game was antiquated and racist by depicting Indians @Sphereserf3232 dancing around fires, and seen as offensively stereotypical.
These changes were controversial because it was seen as part of the wider wokefication of remakes, like Dead Space 1 remake, alongside the general perception of chuds that SanFran types had completely infiltrated gaming studios in American modern AAA gaming development.
AOE3 devs even went so far as to actually bring in Native yank advisors to tell them how to depict the 3 big factions, and what was no-no, so that when AOE3 released to an even more buggy state than any of the modern Definitive Edition Remakes by MicroSoftest, the perception was wide that focusing on culture-war type shit was what the majority of the budget and efforts had been focused upon, much to the jubilation of chuds
https://rdrama.net/post/195059/drama-2-years-ago-about-the
In all fairness, the AOE3 definitive edition did bring about many technical and gameplay improvements, conveniences and quality-of-life mechanics. But all of this was overshadowed by the poor release state, in which the fabled reworked indian civs had been very badly balanced, since the Indian civs in the eye of the drama-maelstrom had gotten the short end of the stick, gameplay-wise because the firedancing mechanic had allowed Indians ingame to turbo cuck European civs, by summoning super-powered high tier units - the absence of the fire-dancing mechanics made the Indian civs bottom tier upon release.
This was in conjunction with the promotional Youtube material for AOE3 DE was like 70% focused on cultural self-flagellation and 30% focus on gameplay, compared to the promotional advertisements for AOE1:DE, AOE2:DE & AOE4:DE. It didn't help that compared to the other 3 games, AOE3:DE was during the colonial era, and thus for minorities to be salty about it, and wokes to soy about it.
So battle lines between Soys-VS-wokes had already been drawn, but since it was released in 2020, it had released JUST before the great GaymerGate Zeitgheist from 2021-2024, where large amounts of AAA slop, often riddled with extreme progressive views would release and tank within months. But as the last 5 years passed, with games like Saints Row 2022 and DA Veilguard appearing to have failed financially, a lot of wingcuckery have taken positions for both chuds & soys
Soys want AOE3:DE to be a success because it is perceived that chuds hate it, and the inverse applies to chuds. Thus even in threads on /r/AOE3 where no cultural war is explicitly mentioned, there has always been an element of powder keg between the 2 autismo factiosn.
This week /r/AOE3 has learned that Microsoft has in all but name, shitcanned AOE3 support, and even cancelled much expected DLCs, which included much anticipated factions, like Polacks
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9ogo5u/?context=8
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9p5ww0/?context=8
Users are understandably upset.
Most peeps are not upset Microcucks will not continue to support AOE3:DE with updates forward, but would have been able to make peace if they had just released the DLCs, and then finished support :marseybea
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which is understandable.
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9onr9y/?context=8
Even in fiction Polacks are eternal cucks 
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9oi3f4/?context=8
Some peeps are taking it personally
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ic7u56/the_dlc_has_been_cancelled/m9ok721/?context=8
There's also inter-community infighting between all the other different games, like AOE1, AOE2, AOE3 &AOE4, because there is often the belief that the Real-Time-Strategy genre is already so small, that the userbase is fractured between them, and thus shitflinging occurs in a blame game between communities, like AOE3 blaming Age of Mythology Definitive Edition (AOM:DE) for "stealing their userbase" and thus making AOE3 (which is certain g*mers' favorite of the bunch) less financially viable and likely to be serviced by MicroSoft longer term
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ifj4hb/this_is_just_sad/magoklw/?context=8
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ifj4hb/this_is_just_sad/maglzq3/?context=8
Here's a "whale" (whatever the frick that means) of AOE3:DE posting his 
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1if12vi/i_just_need_to_vent/
But by far the most cryposting in AOE3:DE is because in the same week as AOE3 got this super duper bad news, literally all of the other fricking AOE games (AOE2, AOE4 & Age of Mythology) are all getting new content, updates, DLC and support 
Which as you can imagine makes our poor souls in /r/aoe3 really livid 
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihu0un/im_sure_there_was_no_budget/
Even the shit mobile game is getting updates and support
"THIS IS OFFENSIVE TO THE AOE3 COMMUNITY" 
https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe3/comments/1ihrolq/this_announcement_is_offensive_to_the_community/
Some users tell OP to grow the frick up
Some strags tell everyone to sign a petition, this will FORCE Bill Gates to revitalize AOE3 support!! 
But most r-slurred of all is that AOE3 has a weird rivalry victim mentality, where they have this perception that the other AOE communities/subs are laughing at the expense of their misfortune? 
which is not the case at all, especially since there is often sympathy for them, even from the much more "successful" communities like AOE2, and especially since the chances of gaymers playing/buying one of the AOE games (AOE1,AOE2,AOE3,AOE4,AOM) are extremely likely to buy some or all of the others, even if those specific gaymers have a favorite between the current 5 main Microsoft titles.
Lol this troll didn't even use the word sheep 
User gives these crybabies some wedgies
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Wew lad
I'm one of the 30 AOE3 enjoyers in existence. AMA
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How do you feel about age of mythology and are you currently sexually active?
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Played the campaign when I was 12, don't mind it, don't really care about it
"currently"
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I only browse rdrama while doing backshots
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Steam users aren't happy, ~600 replies in like a week
https://steamcommunity.com/app/933110/eventcomments/603020634642006815
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I think it's mostly because the factions are super unbalanced and the deck system makes it even worse lol. Woke shit just made the game even more of a wet fart.
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It really seems that AoE3 players and developers forget those games thrive due to a competitive multiplayer, and that requires a balanced game. Each new faction has to be balanced against the others, and making them radically different is making this task so much more harder.
There is a reason most RTS games with highly varied factions usually have just 3.
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It's never just the woke shit, it's always some inherently bad design choice that turns off players and the anti-wokes just pile on to say it's the woke that caused it.
Spiderman Playstation did awesome despite woke elements because it was just fun. Suicide Squad lived up to its name because it went through development heck. It's just not as gratifying to b-word about a live-service game gone single player and the lingering design negatively impacting it as it is to say "why do supervillains talk like 19 year old socjus undergrads?"
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AoE3 was the colonizer entry, so of course it had to be remade by an obese woman
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oooh AOE2 getting a dlc? yayyy it's the only one I play.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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It means they're fat.
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Prepare yourself to be punched in the peepee Saffer.
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Didn't dispute what i said either
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I'm not claiming what you say is wrong, I don't like that you are saying it outloud.
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Isn't AOE 3 old as dirt now? That shit is like 15 years old right?
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a remaster was released in 2020
https://store.steampowered.com/app/933110/Age_of_Empires_III_Definitive_Edition/
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Oh I didn't even know that shit, I just remember AOE in it's giant 90's PC game size box except it was wood and I was broke so I couldn't afford it.
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How is AoE 4? It looked cool but I never touched it with everything else coming out and AoE2.
AoE3 sucked peepee anyway. The card mechanic is just awful
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Aoe3 was the only video game me and my little friends dropped almost immediately.
That never happened, we played literally the sloppiest slop back then and had fun for hours
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We tried AoE3, it sucked so we went right back to 2
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I dropped as soon as I heard villagers didn't have to transport their resources to a drop site
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It was 20 years ago I do not remember a thing
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It's very similar to 2, but with greater variation in how the factions play. For instance the Byzantines can make aqueducts that improve linked building efficiency, the Chinese can generate gold from tax collectors visiting buildings, I think the Mongols can move their buildings around kind of like StarCraft Terrans... that kind of thing.
I didn't find it very interesting to play, although the little documentary bits between campaign missions are cute. I'd much rather play either Age of Empires 2 or Age of Mythology.
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Cards are dope, hater
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Absolutely r-slurred mechanic. Especially tied in with leveling up to get better cards. Tried to play with some friends who had played a lot more than me and it made the game unbalanced to the point of unplayable. Awful system
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"G*mers" like mechanics where playing for 500 hours makes the game easier, so they can convert their worthless time into feelings of accomplishment and lower the difficulty without having to admit it to themselves
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Is this the game that would randomly make some of your units black if you were a European country.
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Rise of Nations was better than any Age of Empires game after AOE2.
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better than any game after
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It was better than AoE2 as well. Rise of Nations is absolutely goated.
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I didn't even know they did a remake. Is it something people wanted? I thought 3 was kind of the black sheep of the series.
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never played it. AoE2 and AoM were the shit tho, the new one seems cool too
Trans lives matter
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In the new one Joan d' Arc is reimagined as a hero character riding hard and capping fools with with her hand cannon.
Yes really.
https://cdn.ageofempires.com/aoe/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FRE-JDA_Jeanne-dArc_Level-4-1.webp
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It's been a long time since I played it, but I also remember it being relatively modern, I can't imagine it needed much in the way of QoL upgrades like the older games
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I'll always be grateful to the Firaxis Xcom games for making me realise turn-based was much better than real-time.
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t. got his base wrecked 3 minutes into a broodwar match by 4 zerglings
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I remember at Blizzcon 2013ish when they were demoing SC2:Heart of the Swarm there were a bunch of computers set up with a you-win you stay and play again system going on. Everyone wanted to give it a go to check out the new units and stuff. Anyway, there was a
who spent the whole time 6-pooling people so no one got an opportunity to try it.
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I barely remember anything from AOE3 because I only played it when it was release (the original game) never played it after that. Always have been aoe2x.exe guy. I played a bit when the HD version came out but I missed playing against my friends. i used to spam RAMBIT tho on Gamespy back then, wish I could play it now.
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i don't get why microsoft is still working on AoE when they aquired a far better rts franchise (Starcraft)
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Cause the second game is a money printer and they put their best dev team on it
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OP putting the ethics back in gaming journ*lism!
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What's the Roman looking guy in the left column middle row supposed to be?
Says it's supposed to be medieval
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I think it's the shit mobile gayme, where non historically accurate factions would compete
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but it was supposed to have a polack vs danes dlc
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Dirty foreigners wouldn't be able to represent nuances of my nation anyway. I sincerely doubt they would hire consultants like they did with people of
@Sphereserf3232, and they should have.
I still haven't forgiven Americans for hiring a horrible voice actress for Jadwiga in Civ6.
!kurwa is there any game that represents Poland respectfully? (except Maluch Racer that is)
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Jadwiggle !coomers
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!metashit !friendsofpizzashill !coomers
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mmmm frick frick frick frick FUUUCK that body is INSANE
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Half Life 2
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I don't get it
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Gothic
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What's that?
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/65540/Gothic_1/
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But it's fantasy?
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Yeah life in Poland isn't as nice
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Poles and Danes fought each other?
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What's so good about that?
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The original comment was pinging a Dane and a Polack
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And?
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..so its cool cause it's their countries? Idk what else to say.
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But you're not a Pole or Dane?
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I'm actually the most viking user on rdrama
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Heya-hoyas should be the weakest civ, to match real life. What other civ has been so thoroughly cucked?
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The Aztecs should have the enemy factions get free units from the minor native tribes on the map at all times. To the point a pro has to sweat to even beat a toddler playing Spain.
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All factions should lose and the world end if Aztec players doesn't sacrifice enough slaves on time to prevent this
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Required viewing
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Isn't there an in game encyclopedia that got revamped heavily as well?
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I don't know, you'll have to link us buddy
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You're the one who plays the games
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https://rdrama.net/post/195059/drama-2-years-ago-about-the/7746099#context
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Why did you link to that?
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Cov has always been better, lol, losers
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what
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Covfefe
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Civ
No autocorrect for me here really hurts my coherency
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BIPOC you're comparing turn based sloppa to RTS
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