4 closed maps, 2 open, and megarandom?

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@SurfaceTen38

Numbers are down.

They are just like always, the game even has an higher avg count than last year.

@SurfaceTen38

There was no Christmas boost in players by the way.

Meanwhile your graph exactly shows a boost in mid December.

@SurfaceTen38

And then there’s feb which is straight up plane crashing sounds

I don’t see that. Feel free to check the recent figures yourself.

https://steamdb.info/app/813780/charts/

@SurfaceTen38

Devs need to address the terrible map selection or the game WILL die.

You already predicted the death of AoE 2 two years ago in this thread when AoE 4 still was fresh

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I mean does it really need explanation at this point? Microsoft releases AOE4 Immediately abandons all support for AOE2 with no major tournaments in the horizon Half the pro scene takes money to play AOE4 and decry AOE2 (Hera, Nilli, Viper, etc) Ends up playing worse than Age 2 by a lot, tanks in playerbase and tournament entry/viewership instantly Microsoft still carries on for half a year pretending AOE4 is the only AOE game After it becomes definitively clear that the game is struggli…

It proofed to be not quite true, didn’t it?

@SurfaceTen38

December was the first time AOE2 DE has dipped below 20k players online and it’s becoming more and more common.

Meanwhile SteamDB says Dec 23 peak was 28,456 and ranked 1v1 always has about 40k players on the ladder.