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[A picture of a bunch of men brawling]: AoE3DE players stupidly arguing if Denmark should be a civilization in the game after being teased
[A picture of a large number of people seated at a conference around a large circular table]: AoE4 players agreeing that the upcoming Vikings civ should be called Denmark/Danes
Context: in early 2024, at a franchise-wide presentation, World's Edge announced an upcoming AoE3 DLC which would include Denmark and Poland. A year later, they announced that the DLC had been cancelled, and they implied all future development on AoE3 had also been ceased.
In a post last week, World's Edge announced AoE4 would be getting two new DLC next year. The second one will include 2 new civs, one of which will be "Vikings". This rather busy thread on the official forums is titled 'please don't call them "vikings"', on the basis that aoe4 civs are usually named after specific polities, not general cultures like aoe2 civs. And that "vikings" doesn't even refer to a general culture, but to a specific activity/occupation. Instead, they should be called "Norsemen", "Northmen", or "Danes". Names that were actually used historically to refer to the societies responsible for viking.