Age of Empires' Marketing is TERRIBLE 

That's almost exactly what happened. They didn't acquire it, but they have partnered with a company that released a game to the Chinese market called Return to Empire. I haven't seen anyone in the English speaking community actually break it down, but it sounds like from what we've seen, the expectation that this is a reskin and maybe slight tweak of that game.

@@JimCullenreturn to empire was actually a game World Edge ASKED Timi to Make , they saw it had success in china and then they decided to literally separate Return to Empire to Kingdom Arise and then Kingdom Arise into Age of Empires Mobile, all of these three games are all asked to do by Microsoft aka, they are licensed so theyre not a knockoff.

And yes theyre are three completely different games

​@a_aoe4965 Kingdom Arise was just beta of Age of Empires Mobile limited to certain countries just like Dawn of Kingdoms.

Nicely worded.

Why? DoW3 marketing was cringefest, when AoE4 released they did not much improve in presenting it

@@bigbroarivusThey've improved A LOT, take a look at their dev diaries and monthly updates.

U luv it

Bet you won't

@@FitzBro the article was more impactful than the rough stream they put on.

We know that there are some gameplay changes: reusable God Powers, Titans walking on water, myth unit powers are micro-able instead of automatically triggering, population cap increasing. But we don't know the full extent of gameplay changes or what else they might be doing.

The usual : same game, small changes, new graphics, new game mode that no one want nor ask for. And that'll be 45$.

strong wahmens?@@JimCullen

yes its gonna be woke, unfortenly@@dubya85

Not the usual for the most part at least. And honestly to push AoM franchise and it’s genre I would ay 45 bucks in an instant. Especially when see games for like 70-90 dollars now and DLCs for like 40 dollars or 20 with the content of a 10 dollar dlc. I would without a thought pay 45 bucks and maybe even 60 if it helps AoM and the fantasy RTS genre

It's baffling

weird you were expecting new "campaigns" from the "campaign focused" dlc. yeah they lied to us. Apparently they have no respect for our community.

Aoe4 looks like shit

Sadly, even though I consider Filthydelphia one of the best map designers around, I think that it was a big letdown not delivering what people wanted and expected: Actual campaigns, probably with Vikings, Japanese or Koreans... Not good. I will buy maybe on sale to show support, but I can see why people will not buy it

Historical battles are kinda campaign. it is just different use of words for single player content. Not sure what the complaint here is.

@@Tempires A campaign is a set of multiple scenarios played sequentially with some sort of unified narrative. The Ghengis Khan campaign contains six scenarios. Scenarios are sometimes also called missions or even levels in the context of a campaign. Each historical battle is a single scenario. If a single scripted scenario was a campaign then you'd look on the steam page for DE, and it'd say it offered 16 new campaigns, not 3. And just to put it to bed, no I don't think historical battles, collectively is campaign. To be a total dork google defines "campaign" as "an organized course of action to achieve a goal." There is no collective goal and the course of action is not organized. Historical battles are a collection of scenarios but not a campaign. MS seems to agree because on the steam page for V&V there is no mention of an "additional" campaign or a "V&V campaign" etc. Additionally if any arbitrary collection of scenarios can be considered a campaign, then there are functionally infinite campaigns cause Ghengis 1, Saladin 2, Barbarossa 3, Joan of Arc 4, Atilla 5, and El Cid 6 can now be considered a campaign under this erroneously broad definition. Why can't a scenario then be part of mutliple campaigns? Just go through the combinatorics of however many scenarios are in the game. So yeah MS is trying to be revisionist with the definition of campaign, but it just doesn't work. It's kind of like a novella is a short novel, and five or six novellas telling the same story sequentially could be considered a novel if packaged together, but a collection of unrelated novellas isn't a novel. It's just a collection of novellas. Even if there are a novels worth of words, it does not a novel make. There are more criteria to what constitutes a novel than word length. I could copy random sentences from wikipedia articles and so long as it was at least 50k words, say I had a novel. It's the same thing. They think they're being clever when actually they're just lying to us.

@@Tempires There is a difference, small but there is. A campaign or a scenario can be focused on a civ, historical moment or personalities, true. But campaigns are "divided" adventures, set in a chronological order, tending to scale in complexity. Standalone scenarios are also highly appraised in our community, specially the excellent ones by Filthydelphia which already got thousands of downloads, but in this case I believe that people wanted to play with certain popular civs 6 or 5 times in a campaign. Dawn of The Dukes are the ones that landed particularly well and I believe that devs could expect the reaction. Said all of that, I will buy this DLC sooner or later. Most likely later.