AoE IV playercount is now below AoE 2

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Only that AoE4 is far more popular on Microsoft store since beeing the new 60€ Gamepass title, compared to the more established AoE2:DE.

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If what you are saying is true, then AoE2:De, even tho only having ~8% of their playerbase based on the Windows Store, is still more “populated/popular”, than the 35% playerbase of AoE4.

Comparing steam server numbers, AoE4 has more than 1/3 less active users per day (24 hour peak) than AoE2:DE with an 8.000 player difference!
(~13k AoE4 vs ~21k AoE2).

Keep in mind that AoE4 should have a slight playerdrain right now since the ranked beta client is splitting up the community.
Shouldn’t make any difference for now tho, since the game peaks out consistently at ~13k for the past 2-3 weeks.

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Very interesting indeed. Thank you for your input.

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These are the number of unique players that have actually played the game within the given time frame:

“game_activity”: {
“30d”: {
“aoe2”: 174108,
“aoe3”: 5086,
“aoe4”: 211614,
“franchise”: 390808
},
“14d”: {
“aoe2”: 67399,
“aoe3”: 3987,
“aoe4”: 161110,
“franchise”: 232496
},
“7d”: {
“aoe2”: 56449,
“aoe3”: 3185,
“aoe4”: 126990,
“franchise”: 186624
},
“3d”: {
“aoe2”: 42851,
“aoe3”: 2326,
“aoe4”: 89480,
“franchise”: 134657
},
“1d”: {
“aoe2”: 32583,
“aoe3”: 1706,
“aoe4”: 65501,
“franchise”: 99790

So AOE4 actually outperforms AOE2 more than I thought. AOE4 have more than twice the number of active players in the last 14 days.

I suspected that AOE4 was more popular, but not to this margin.

Source:

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