>>2117145
Ah I see, makes sense
>chinks wouldn't be split, and then the DLC split them in three
They weren't actually split to be fair, the caricatural embodiment of the Chinese empire is still in the game; the DLC simply expanded on the sinosphere, much like Sicilians and Burgundians were capillary expansions of a pre-existing civ label.
>tell the stories they want to tell
Yea that's retarded, but they probably only intended to do the 3K part originally.
Then they realised they could squeeze in an extra couple of unique civs to appeal to MP-only fags, and I'd wager that designing a custom campaign takes far longer than just designing a civ. I waited 20 fucking years to play a Britons campaign (Vikingchads are still sitting in the cuck chair), I'm not gonna bitch about not getting a Mongols-but-less-cool story any time soon.
The rest I don't really agree with, the game's still largely the same and the new civ gimmicks are either irrelevant (heroes) or kinda dumb and useless; they clearly have a lot of ideas they wanna explore and implement, but they're saving those for Chronicles-only mode to avoid upsetting the grognards
If anything, the patch that tweaks Skirms can't come out soon enough
