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5/6/2025, 11:43:14 AM
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>>2027292
>what the fug they were thinking?
You can just read their quarterly strategy meetings.
They split up the plane into Western/Asian History/Fantasy. TW3K2 was pitched as the missing Asian Fantasy setting. At the same time WH3 pitched the option of making Kathay a focal point of their expansion.
Whether they actually planned to use one onether as backup options is just a wild extrapolation but their strategy about needing to fill that Asian Fantasy slot is written black on white and if you remember the pitch video of TW3K2, it was fairly clear on following that as well. They promised to go all-in on the fantasy, part of the reason why they refused to call it TW3K2 since it would imply it as a sequel to the historical game, which it wasn't meant to be.
>Okay, so why drop Three Kingdoms?
They did explain that fairly clearly. Asian audience had standards and refused to buy buggy, nonsensical DLCs. If you're a company you obviously prefer to have an audience that laps up everything you serve them. They can complain, but they must pour money on it.
Just look at the swine pens of AoE2. The devs shat all over them with a 3K DLC. They squeeled and threw up the shit in their pens but are all lining up to buy it with a smile on their face as their Youtubers tell them, with a shit eating grin, how the DLC is beating all previous sales records.
>>2027292
>what the fug they were thinking?
You can just read their quarterly strategy meetings.
They split up the plane into Western/Asian History/Fantasy. TW3K2 was pitched as the missing Asian Fantasy setting. At the same time WH3 pitched the option of making Kathay a focal point of their expansion.
Whether they actually planned to use one onether as backup options is just a wild extrapolation but their strategy about needing to fill that Asian Fantasy slot is written black on white and if you remember the pitch video of TW3K2, it was fairly clear on following that as well. They promised to go all-in on the fantasy, part of the reason why they refused to call it TW3K2 since it would imply it as a sequel to the historical game, which it wasn't meant to be.
>Okay, so why drop Three Kingdoms?
They did explain that fairly clearly. Asian audience had standards and refused to buy buggy, nonsensical DLCs. If you're a company you obviously prefer to have an audience that laps up everything you serve them. They can complain, but they must pour money on it.
Just look at the swine pens of AoE2. The devs shat all over them with a 3K DLC. They squeeled and threw up the shit in their pens but are all lining up to buy it with a smile on their face as their Youtubers tell them, with a shit eating grin, how the DLC is beating all previous sales records.
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