Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong?

Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong?

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They realized most of the buyers in this genre are completely incompetent and content with that, so they produced a fitting design, which will be fervently defended until players get bored with it.

second one is flawless
you can't make a better RTS

This is wrong. The early game has fallen to shit with drush spam, and Castles as a structure shut down Castle Age interactions.

Giant ass bugs at launch which where never quickly fixed and are still in the game. Literally the only thing wrong with it.

>Literally the only thing wrong with it.
Sure, if you ignore
>Half of the civs being from the bumfuck end of nowhere
>All of the Indian civs being jammed into one
>Garbage water play
>Extreme cheese
>Terrible civ design

>Castles as a structure shut down Castle Age interactions
>Castle age

it's almost like it's supposed to be like that

>Age is called Castle age
>So the only thing that happens is players building castles
>This is good game design
Dumbfuck, Castle age is when the game is supposed to open up after the monotony of Feudal. Castles ruin that.

Its genre with older population who allready found their niche game. If you want rts you have enough choice allready and this one wasnt different enough

Got woke, went broke.

how come people on RTSs absolutely lose their shit if you ever erect any walls? like it's some rule that everyone abides by that you cannot make walls and it's associated with noobs

Completely unnecessary game.

>AoE4
>Woke
Get a brain

offence is the best defence, especially if you have limited resources

so yes walls are a noob strategy

Should have used AoE1 setting instead.
We literally have AoE2 DE for all the medieval shit they want to make, so why not go for ancient age instead? Would've been a lot better.

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>offence is the best defence, especially if you have limited resources
Yeah, until your enemy's crossbows dismantle that offense.

Walls have only one counter: Siege. You force your opponent into expensive sidegrades, and when they finally push through, most don't have the sense not to pour through the hole, so they get annihilated by whatever army you've prepared. You prevent harassment, you block their scouting attempts, and you waste their army investment, which is still required because you can just leave your walls to fight them. Walls are an excellent tool in most cases, and the fact that so many of the community's players are too dumb to recognize this is completely frustrating.

aoe 2 de exists and there's no reason to play any other rts

>Half of the civs being from the bumfuck end of nowhere
No one cares about this.
>All of the Indian civs being jammed into one
Just like with every other AoE game.
>Garbage water play
Just like with every other AoE game.
>Extreme cheese
Just like every RTS git gud
>Terrible civ design
gitgud.

then build walls

>Not even bothering to defend his kusoge
I do.