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Age Of Empires 2 Devs Were Forced To Make A Korea Faction Because StarCraft Sold 3 Million Copies In The Country
The Korean faction in The Conquerors expansion for Age of Empires 2 was added based on StarCraft's success in Korea.
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"StarCraft was impossible to topple from its Korean throne" — Why an extra civ was added to Age of Empires 2 at the last minute
In 1999, I was assigned to design the expansion pack to Age of Empires 2. I chose The Conquerors as the theme, and wishing to have 4 civs (as we had on Rise of Rome), I chose the Spanish, the ...
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Microsoft forced to add Koreans to Age of Empires 2 — and it cost their employee his freedom
That’s exactly what happened to the Ensemble Studios team in 1999 while developing Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors. Game designer Sandy Petersen at X (Twitter) told how Microsoft forced him to make ...