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It was reviewed average because it was an average game. It got a bad reaction from much of the DoW fanbase because it was a bad DoW game. It sold badly(relative to the company's expectations) because not enough people liked it to pay for it. Simple as that.


I think part of the issue is that they lost a good chunk of the base to how polarizing DoWII was, and while DoWIII attempted to bring back some of the scale that people missed by the time it came out no one who walked away came back to even try DoWIII. The fans who stuck with the series through DoWII then had the same reaction to DoWIII that those who left DoWII had.
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Eh. The early coverage of the game doesn't reflect that very well. They sent out a lot of press copies to youtubers as well as 'traditional game journalists' and it was everywhere for several weeks leading up to release. It was just unfortunately really bad. A lot of the DoW fans really wanted the game to be good, even if they disliked or hated 2. There was a lot of blind enthusiasm based on the original trailer that was almost unbelievable... But it vanished quickly once the gameplay was revealed. Plenty were willing to try, but the game simply did rise to meet them- it was just a sad little variant of capture (destroy) the flag on restricted little maps with too few factions and limited unit choices with some nonsensical additions.

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AdmiralHalsey wrote:
I for example, am I die hard DOW player, who still plays DOW2 competative multiplayer every week.
I have still not purchased a copy of DOW3, even in the sale at any point, and nor do I have any interest in doing so.


I used to play DoW2 at a tournament level, but I dropped it when DoW3 was announced in anticipation.

DoW3 looked bad from the onset and it just kind of killed my interest in the whole thing.

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Probably some last bit of stuff they were working on and releasing.
   
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The game is also taking part in their annual event, so there may be more free content from that as well.



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 BrookM wrote:
The game is also taking part in their annual event, so there may be more free content from that as well.


Maybe. But free stuff in the Make War, Not Love event generally requires that more people play the game getting the free stuff. And DoW is going up against some pretty well-liked games in the event (like TW: WH2).
   
 
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