Why aoe2 has more civilizations?

[FuniCN]

...aoe3 is less.

[.:Jj:.]

Because it's faster and easier to make a civilization in AoE2, on top of that game being out for 26 years.

[James3157]

Because AoE III: DE has revolutionary civs, much bigger and more complex tech trees, has a lot more unique units for each civ than AoE II: DE, each civ is required to have a unique leader personality for skirmishes, civs are harder to be made on AoE III: DE than AoE II: DE, and while AoE III: DE has potential for adding more civs (such as Polish, Danish, Persians, Koreans, Omani, and etc...) I do not think that Microsoft and World's Edge care anymore about this game for the most part. Also, some civs on AoE III: DE (such as Filipinos, various African civs, Pacific islanders, Australians/Aboriginals, and etc...) cannot be added for this game's time period as official civs because of colonization.

[Soul Reaver]

same as the previous 2 comments, and one big reason is because AoE 2 is way more popular than all other entries in the series combined, 2 is not my favorite one but thats the reality.

[FloosWorld]

Symmetric civs are easier to make.

[NineBreaker 621]

because all of them are copy paste outside building models, passives and the one UU (two if lucky) you get

[FloosWorld]

Publicado originalmente por NineBreaker 621:

because all of them are copy paste outside building models, passives and the one UU (two if lucky) you get

They're most certainly not "copy paste". That's a thing parroted over the years and it won't become true the more it is repeated. :)

[Whakahoatanga]

Less DLCs overall. Some AOE3 mods like the Age of World mod or Wars of Liberty mod features tons of civs. AOE3 could have had a lot of potential in terms of adding new civs.