Here’s the first game play trailer of Age Of Empires Online.
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With the recent closure of Age of Empires Online, the future of the Age of Empires franchise doesn't look good as no game in the series has been announced.
But why is this happening? Microsoft said that PC gaming was important to them yet one of their most important IP's seems to be stopped
I am sure PC Gamers can understand that Microsoft has got their hands full with trying to keep the Xbox One from not dieing a painful death.
But PC division is still under Microsoft Games Studio.
It's getting the love it deserves. The re release of 2 HD is a sign of Age of Empires 4 in development.
I'm hoping for it, and can't wait.
I do, but I honestly miss a lot Age of Empires. A fourth entry in the series wouldn't hurt to anyone.
I don't want anybody except Ensemble Studios Making a New Age of Empires game.
They don't exist anymore though.
If you could get a core group of original people from Ensemble I'd be all for it.
Age of Empires 1 HD complete remake needs to happen.
Like rebuilt from the ground up.
After AOE Online, I don't think anyone is holding out for AOE to "win PC gaming back"
Age of Empires is a great IP and when Microsoft released the MMO version in August 2011, many players played it. But Age of Empires Online turned out to be unsuccessful because of the poor business model it used at launch. Today at GDC, Executive Producer Kevin Perry looked back the original F2P model of the game and explained how they fixed it.
This is a big deal. I see another blow out on sales. Back an forth till on prices till the end. Wii is sitting back thinking "WTF, this is madness. I don't even have a hard drive"
*sigh*
This just seems like a disgrace to the series. It's like the Battlefield Heroes of AoE.
I remember when I was younger, I loved playing AoE and AoE2 with my cousins. We used to take turns and give each other advice, lots of fun. Then Age of Mythology came out and mixed things up while still keeping the same traditional feel and look of past AoE games, it was possibly my favorite. AoE3 was also awesome, but my computer couldn't handle it well.
Without Ensemble behind it, this just won't be the same. I'm not sure how I feel about the cartoony look, and I'm assuming since it's called Age of Empires Online.. there won't be a singleplayer campaign? Ugh... lame.
they need to iron out the business model and their approach to social gaming; make it like live on the first xbox and id pay live type sub fees in the form of micro transactions.
could be good, not a fan of the graphic style, preferred the old one but the whole active 24/7 could be interesting one night you might go to bed, you log on in the morning and your village has been destroyed.
am happy AoE is back but I don't like that it is online at all. If there is no single player campaign I will not buy it and this comes from a huge fan of the series.
The Team Fortress graphics will be okay for me as I play Settlers 7 which has the same type of graphics.