Fans are Outraged Over Age of Empires: Definitive Edition's Windows Store Exclusivity

Fans are outraged at Microsoft for deciding to only launch Age of Empires: Definitive Edition exclusively on the Windows Store.

[FallenAngel1984]

Microsoft can't seem to grasp a full understanding of the PC market

[freshslicepizza]

And you can't seem to grasp Microsoft has their own store. Sure they risk losing sales but they also don't throw away 30% of their revenue and risk having their game cracked the same day and being pirated. I do imagine after a certain timeframe it will come to Steam just like Killer Instinct did.

Of course Microsoft wants to push people to their own store, just like EA does with Origin.

[conanlifts]

Actually as an xbox fan i think it s disgusting. What you need to remember is the game features xbox achievements and uses xbox live network and save storage. It is also being advertised with xbox games and media. Despite all of this and despite teir lack of xbox games this year it is not coming to xbox. Neither is the sequel. Yet they claim xbox vision is play anywhere and to leave no player behind. But none of the Age of Empire games are coming to xbox. There should be no defending this. MS are ignoring xbox with this.

[nowitzki2004]

Window Store is the worst out of all the services and thats why people are upset. Its MS game they can do as they want, doesn't mean people have to be happy about it.

[Seafort]

No Microsoft risk throwing the vast majority of sales away just to have their own closed off store.

30% is nothing compared to what they are going to lose.

I certainly won't be touching the Windows Store ever again. It's why I've uninstalled it from my Win 10 PC.

I buy my games but not MS games on Win Store. I have over a thousand games on steam and several hundred on the other stores like GoG, Origin and Uplay.

I already have Age of Empires II HD Edition and Age of Mythology Extended Edition on steam.

Their choice to limit sales, my choice not to buy on Win Store.

[Vasto]

Same with Blizzard and Battle.net

[bluefox755]

@Vasto Battle.net is actually not bad though, it's better than Origin at least, and a hell of a lot better than the garbage Windows Store.

[thekhurg]

You've never used Steam. That's 100% clear.

[ShadowWolf712]

Age of Empires needs to stay far away from any console. Those are not the place for any RTS unless you wanna see them dumbed down for the sake of controllers.

[ninsigma]

I don't see a problem with it. It's an MS game so they've every right to push it only on their own store if they wish. EA don't put their games on other store fronts on PC, they keep them on origin. What makes the PC market open is that you can buy keys from elsewhere and redeem the key on the necessary store front.

[conanlifts]

It is an ms game that they are refusing to release on xbox despite their new " play anywhere" philosophy.

[TheHan]

That’s not how this is going though. You can’t buy the game on Xbox live Store on your console and play the game. They are just selling the game on the Windows 10 Store even though Xbox Store is a Microsoft store front as well.

[Death]

Is this a timed exclusive to Windows Store? With Phil getting promoted he will finally have the ability to merge the two together. I buy games on Steam, Battlenet, Origin and the Windows Store. I'm not losing much sleep when a game is exclusive to any of these store fronts. I'm looking forward to a time when all released on Windows Store are Playanywhere titles though.

[Unspoken]

Fans are fine playing it through MS store. Age of Empires on a controller? Um go speak with the devs about that. Has nothing to do with why it was published to promote their own store front.

[MegamanXXX]

Lol

[slavish0]

I lol too when i see your posts

[bluefox755]

This has been a problem for them for a very long time.

[Prince_TFK]

It is their game after all. They have the rights to launch it on whatever platforms they please.

Its not like Steam player can only access to Steam on their PC.

[_LarZen_]

Idiots. There are games exclusive to Origin,Battlenet, Epic Launcher and even Steam.

[TheHan]

If it came to Xbox I’d buy it in a heartbeat, I’m more than pissed off about this they need to release on Xbox to.

[ShadowWolf712]

Please explain to me how you're gonna assign numerical designations to groups of soldiers that you can access and command with a single key press on a controller.

Unless you can describe a way to make that work for up to 9 groups at a time, it shouldn't happen.

[TheHan]

Easy you use the bumpers to go through your tags. RTS games have been on consoles sense the start of the PS1 from what I can remember, they have every right to be on consoles. Just like when they said you can’t play “FPS games on consoles” in the past but all that has changed and so has this closed minded bullshit about RTS games on consoles. You can select as many units as you want and assign them into a group by easily pressing and holding the trigger and use the D-Pad to select and make as many group tags as you need.

[ShadowWolf712]

Cycling through them slows you down.

And RTS games have always been terrible on consoles, that's a fact.

[Vasto]

I don't blame them. If you want it then go to the Windows Store and get.

There is nothing wrong with the Windows store. Click, Buy, Download. Just like all the others.

[slate91]

N4G community gets tilted daily lol. Now we are ranting about a store that doesnt cost anything to use.

[Razzer]

You have to upgrade to Windows 10.

[Prince_TFK]

What is wrong with Windows 10? You get new features, updated security, and pretty soon an updated game mode.

I don't and can never understand the hate for every latest version of Windows though. Everything got to evolve at one point, you can't stuck using Windows XP forever.

[Razzer]

Where did I say anything negative about Windows 10? I love it. The problem is ithe store is not accessible on other versions of Windows so no, not entirely free to use.

[Prince_TFK]

They did give you free upgrade for the first one year. That is quite a long time. They even warned you and begged you to upgrade by using every means necessary, and I remembered people complained quite alot about that.

So don't blame them when they put their plan into effect. They already did warned and urged people to upgrade for free.

I do however think that they should have made Windows Store accessible to Windows 7 and up. That would have opened it up to alot more potential customers.

[Razzer]

I’m not blaming anyone, dude. I took advantage of the free upgrade myself. We agree on this.

[coolbeans]

So...the cost of your soul? :P

[slate91]

Didnt know that. Good point. Not saying negatives about win10, but not everyone has it.

[WePlayDirty]

No. Many Xbox users are upset that it's not coming to Xbox.

[TheHan]

So much so that we should boycott the Xbox.

[opinionated]

Lol.. they gave up their closed platform console to create this hybrid platform and nobody is benefiting from their decisions. The console doesn’t have exclusives but the PC games are locked behind a store lol.

The hybrid has potential but it turned out to not be very good for either platform. Xbox is better as a closed platform and the PC is better as open.

[TheSinsibleOne]

Im outraged it's not on consoles 😪

[TheHan]

I hope Microsoft suffers for this.

[McGlinchey12]

Well pirate bay it is

[TheColbertinator]

Its their IP so the choice is theirs.

I am disappointed however since I do enjoy Steam for its Ao2 workshop.

[AspiringProGenji]

So those are the problems people have with Windows store i hear all the time... i want to buy Gears4 and FH3 but guess I’ll pass until they hit Steam. I also don’t like how the store is filled with candy crush clones and mobile games. And interesting enough, the best sellers are not xbox games, not even in top bottom last time I checked 🤔

[ArnoDorian]

Welp doesn't matter where it is for me. Just give me the game

[BlaqMagiq1]

Should've been on Steam like the previous version.

[TheHan]

This needs to Be out on Xbox, I feel it’s completely wrong of them to sell it just as a windows exclusive without it coming to Xbox.

[ShadowWolf712]

They didn't want to dumb it down for controllers.

[ShadowWolf712]

Not for RTS games I don't. I like to actually be able to play.