I wonder if this post was made to trigger AoE2 players?
I hope AoE4 will become good enough to replace AoE2DE.
There are still things missing and some things should be changed.
It’s often the small things that make people not like a game.
Like clicking on things feel worse in AoE4, that sounds like a super small thing but it adds up. I often wonder if I actually managed to set the rely point onto the sheep or tree correctly, and it happened a few times that I had villagers stand idle because I didn’t.
An issue that AoE2/3DE doesn’t have.
The other issue is that AoE4 has less “cool” things. I mean there is a whole thready about it:
AoE4 is less interesting than AoE2 because its units lack ‘coolness’ and ‘personality’
Longbows being a cheap trash unit is just not the same as the elite super ranged unit from AoE2.
And then there is the issue of content.
AoE2DE just has more civilisations, campaigns, maps, gamemodes etc.
But AoE4 is catching up here.