This is related to Malaysia being Indonesia's traditional rival. Indonesians don't like that the Malay civilization (mostly inspired by the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires) is called that, and are similarly unfazed by the claim that the civilization was named after the Malay archipelago and not the Malay people.The Chinese were eventually given the Block Printing technology in a 2020 update. However, the game itself is still popular within the Chinese playerbase, and many Chinese players find this historical inaccuracy in their civilization tech tree to be acceptable from a gameplay perspective due to how strong their civilization is gameplay wise. Also zig-zagged with the Chinese playerbase, some Chinese players are uncomfortable that their civilization in-game is denied Hand Cannoneers, Bombard Cannons and Block Printing, despite being rather well known for inventing all three of these things in real life.In the Georgians' case, they could've been represented by a Central European civilization such as the Goths or Huns, as the Central European Monastery is based on a Georgian cathedral. Alternatively, they could have used one of the 'Eastern European' civilizations like Slavs or Magyars to represent them since medieval Armenian and Georgian architecture strongly resemble Eastern European architecture in real life. Armenian and Georgian players are unhappy on how their civilizations are represented in Tamerlane's fifth scenario, 'Scourge of the Levant,' where Byzantines and Persians were used as 'placeholder' civilizations to represent them respectively when it is more appropriate to have a completely separate civilization to represent them.Additionally, the Vietnamese now use the East Asian architecture set in Definitive Edition. This, however, didn't affect the game's massive popularity in Vietnam. The developers' reply that the Vietnamese use the SE Asian set because of the Champa kingdom triggered a worse reaction, because Champa was a historical rival of Vietnam that was conquered and assimilated by it note This would be comparable to the Spanish using the Middle Eastern set because of Al-Andalus. They don't like that their civilization uses the Southeast Asian architecture set, and would have preferred the East Asian set instead.

Aoe 2 mongols