- 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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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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It hasnt even been an issue for the last 15 years u get all the cards off rip
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