Having been downplayed for years (this streaming included) and players of this game are still fighting over whose preference is superior.
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Look at the shadows on the flags. It looks like these are from in-game files.
nah, just fair analysis in term of business.
plain fair judgement that it will not sell well
Says who? The game’s playerbase has been relatively consistent since launch. In fact, you can even make the argument that it’s been slightly trending upwards. Get out of here is that “game is dead” nonsense just because you did not get the civs you personally wanted.
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well, you just got 1 vote on “not to buy” just right above you
Compared to everyone else who is going to buy it. Stop whining, it’s lame for the community.
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What are you talking about? The player base was in decline until they added Free to Play.
Steamcharts. The game has a consistent playerbase of 6k-5k during peak hours. It’s been the same for a couple years.
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Before Free to play, the game oscillated between 3000 and 4000, in addition to having a slow but constant drop in players, it only stabilized thanks to the free to play mode, which also attracted a good number of new players.
PS: I clarify that I am basing it on the steamdb data that I remember before the Free to play mode.
Making money running a decent buisness and making money going for whale hunting as do mobile games are two entirely diffrent can of worms. One is not ethical at all.
Also RIP end of the year, that is a far bigger issue.
Some do. We know nothing about the business model in that game.Certainly, Microsoft (especially now with all that’s going on around the company) wouldn’t fund a game preying on kids, with an outrageous MTX system. It will be as mild as the industry standard.
And in the end- it doesn’t matter.
I’ve been playing mobile Age of Empires games (more or less official ones) since I got my first Symbian phone- these things do not collide with normal installments.
This one is made by Level Infinite, not any of the core teams.
Most mobile games do. It’s the reason why the mobile market is so large monetary wise on top of low maintenance cost. Frankly the current mobile game standards are abismal and you might trust microsoft. I do not.
You can play Android Games on PC.
Yes, it’s possible to emulate Android on PC. And what about that?
No, it isn’t about emulation. It’s official, you can android games on PC.
I was asking why you bring it up as a reply to my post.
It’s still a mobile game, not made by any of the normal dev teams working on AoE games.
They are advertising it as a mobile game because it’s a mobile game, made for phones and that audience. The emulation of Android on other devices is completely unrelated.
And what you’re linking- it’s literally emulation of Android on PC ecosystem, just an official program and not BlueStacks or whatever. Not sure what you want to say here.
Oh, just apologizing. I thought people were complaining about it because it was on mobile.
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its a +100 million demographic this DLC appeals to, and they are big communities in other franchises that AOE competes with. i am going to guess from a business POV this is the best they could do.
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demographic of the civs irl have no relation to the number of sales.
the Mexican pop is higher than KOTM pop still sale less.
player just buy what they like.
and this is projected to be less likeable.
Poland was the most popular request they had.
is any DLC was going to do well it was this 1.
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