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There are some issues as the game has just been released, but you can expect official patches come in and fix those (unlike for the 2007 version, which will keep all of its bugs forever now).
Inconsequential things, like sacrificing historical accuracy in a game where historical accuracy is important to many of the players?
DE has new additions like: glaring bugs that cause the AI to be mentally deficient, bugs that cause multiplayer interruptions, poor code optimization causing various slowdowns and framerate/frame tearing issues - or perhaps the inferior texture work, water that isn't transparent unless set to "low", and uncanny appearance in building and unit destruction (ships and buildings collapsing in on themselves as opposed to realistically crumbling), and other "fantastic" visual changes that make the game look more gloomy. (It's true the original had bloom that many players found annoying, thankfully of which can be altered and and disabled.) But hey, at least the models are higher poly in DE!
The "keep all its bugs forever" is blatantly incorrect and a bit laughable. The '07 version has a dedicated modding community which to this year has released balance patches, AI improvements, new units/unit alterations, new civilizations and other scripting optimizations.
And no, with this new studio - you shouldn't expect proper patches and bug fixes from a team who has hardly any clue as to what they're doing.
The only downside to purchasing the older version is the price tag.
DE has finally given us an official solution that includes pretty much all the fixes and balance changes we've been working on for years on the old version. And because it's official, we got thousands of players playing it. It's a shame that the game was released with some glaring issues before it was ready, but we have official support now and I can assure you the devs are working on fixing these issues.
Well then, I'll take your word for it with the dev's fixing issues. When it comes to comes to remasters being released with bad optimization and support, it seems we've been getting repeatedly burned these last few years
Go with the original for PvE. The AI of DE seems drastically different but for the worse. Even on higher difficulties they will mostly ignore important game elements like trade posts.
They seem to get trapped in a never ending loop of thought if they are given the opportunity to reach the final age, which causes them to no longer send any of their military your way. They can reduce your town to the brink of extinction, but as long as you have one villager outside of their LoS when they achieve age 5 the victory is pretty much yours on a plate.
Again if you also liked the grind for cards, go with the original. DE still lets you grind for levels but it only unlocks some barebones customisation options for your home city. If you're playing as the expansion civs levelling doesn't even give you that.
Two new factions in DE if you're the type of person to learn the ins and outs of playing as every faction. They hardly flip the game on its head if you prefer to stick with your favourites.
Most complaints are about slight name changes which can already be reverted by mods. And now you can find mods ingame in the menu and download them there too.
And give it some time and modders will likely revert back all changes people are whining about.
And seeing how well AOE2 DE is supported, I have no doubts the team is on top of patching AOE3 DE to the best of their ability as well. There's always some problems with any game on release.
Personally I have not encountered problems yet aside from once or twice a soldier moving a bit odd, the occasional villager acting illogical and I have not tried the campaigns yet since I hear there's some problems there so I wait for a patch to focus on fixing that.
The Inca's and Swedes are a lot of fun to play, they are great new factions I wouldn't want to miss out on, especially in a game with not that many factions.
Some good gameplay improvements have been made too, like age up mechanics are better now for European factions.
You can also select player colours in the options, adjusting them to your personal taste.
And of course the graphics look better.
Don't let the complainers fool you, it's mainly just the very vocal minority who'd always wine about SJW's even when there's none in sight and the actual bugs might be bad for some players, but for the majority it's nothing too bad, nothing game breaking and it's going to be patched.
I have played actually broken games on release, games that should have been released months if not more than a year later, but this is not one of those.
This is not Neverwinter Nights 2, Rome total war 2 or any other game that was released in a truly abyssmal state.
Looking at the review would indicate otherwise.
The numbers will change as more review, but being in the mixed territory doesn't bode well.
New game is trash! I cant play a multiplayer game without it crashing! even after the patch! Also they did something to the old AOE3 that blocks you form playing a multiplayer game. I am not the only person having this issue as at least two other friends are having the same issues.