That's funny, because I would actually put AoE3 at A-tier. It doesn't quite reach the height of AoE2 and AoM for me, but for me that has more to do with the original game than the remaster. The remaster delivers on everything it should. Modern multiplayer support, improved graphics, better QOL, a bunch of great new civs, and addressing the problems with the Home City system.

Yeah, I'm really disappointed we never got the Poles, and that they ended support for the game in the form of bugfixes and balance patches so soon. But there's no reasonable way to say it's worse than what AoE1:DE was. It never received any new content, and was left in a nearly unplayable state.