N3O Age Of Empires and Starcraft 2 Clan

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

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..

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.

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.

they all seem to like aoe3 in the aoe3 DVD. =(

[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

Just wishing that Blizzards owns AOE3. Imagine the super awesome game then!

[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.

So what is true?