Bruce Shelly says AOE3 was a mistake?

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Bruce Shelly says AOE3 was a mistake?

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Just browsing through some websites, and found this bit. Don't know where the conversation came from though

http://kotaku.com/#!5759801/developer-a ... ge-mistake
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Weirdly enough, I actually liked aoe3 a lot better than aoe2. Just after playing more and more online, I realised it has so many civs it cant be balanced, and imba games are usually bad..
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Hmm the devs thinking the game was crap goes a long way to explain why they never bothered to get the balancing right. Its a shame really, people saying its no good because its not the same as AoK, so much for innovation and new ideas. I think it was the best in the series myself, the card system and number of unit/civs added so many possiblites after 5 years of playing it I still haven't tried everything.
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It's too bad since AOE3 could have been the greatest RTS game ever -- but poor support, balance, and marketing just never permitted that too happen.
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they all seem to like aoe3 in the aoe3 DVD. =(
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[quote=""36drew""] but poor support, balance, and marketing just never permitted that too happen.[/quote]

They were only able to make as much support and marketing as M$ was willing to pay. Nothing more and nothing less.
Though they could have performed better in the patches, they were able to make
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Just wishing that Blizzards owns AOE3. Imagine the super awesome game then!
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[quote=""Comadevil""][quote=""36drew""] but poor support, balance, and marketing just never permitted that too happen.[/quote]

They were only able to make as much support and marketing as M$ was willing to pay. Nothing more and nothing less.
Though they could have performed better in the patches, they were able to make[/quote]

Not very true.
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So what is true? ;)
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