When it comes to what I’ve read about developing this game so far, It definitely seems like a AAA title for me worth the price. This would include a long development cycle, 3 dev teams helping developing it - with the main one being a world class studio, a huge publisher behind, a community council giving feedback from early on, the historic research on the field, the Flow Field technology for pathfinding etc all stuff like that sounds like a huge amount of resources put into it, which wasn’t the case for an RTS since SC2.
As for the looks from videos and photos, I have to admit I was expecting a bit more, which makes me a skeptical optimist, but I still consider it to be the first AAA RTS title in many years and expect it to be sold at full PC AAA price.
I know the game. I have played it and I also liked it. It had a big disadvantage (micro transactions). I don’t think that RTS games like this idea. The survivability of every game has to do with the profit it gives to the company. This is another reason I don’t agree with the criticism of overpriced game. I believe this is an expensive production and the final result will be a great game, so to sell it at low price will make the continue of production much harder.
PS: The AOE O had a very small player base because of online transactions so they stop the support. I would like AOE 4 to be continue supporting with new civilizations etc. I think the AOE 2 started with 13 civs. And now it has so many. Imagine AOE 4 with many civs all with diversity. It is a great senario…
AOE 3 has a lot of diversity between Europe, Asian and America civs. And the new expansion will be with African civs, logically also with a lot of diversity. And the game is 100% balance. ( even some ‘similar’ civs have a lot of diversity between them ). And AOE 3 has also the cards system, something that could made the game 100% unbalanced. But still it is one of the most balanced games out there if you see the will/loose results from online games. This gives hope that AOE 4 could be balanced also with many civs.
PS. I will not continue at this post with the civs diversity, because I think I am out of topic.
İf it is supposed to be aaa game, game must be polished which is said by above video. But if the game is not polished, it is not aaa game and it is not priced aaa game level.
It was somewhat bound to the MS Store, wanst it? I dont quite remember but I think it was something like this which lead to me being the only ones of my friends playing it. I quite liked it, but I didnt have the time…And when I wanted to go back it didnt work anymore
It was bound to Microsoft Games for Windows Live, basically the preceder of Xbox Live (Network) and the MS Store which arrived at Windows 8. If you have the time to play it now, just give a search for Project Celeste.
sadly, I dont think I will do so, as 1) ihave a LOT f games to play atm anbd 2) I believe it may very well make my age 4 hype less. WHich It doesnt have to be, the waiting for beta already does that quite well^^
My response wasn’t for 1 particular game, rather the general direction of what has been happening. I’m not sure what prompted you to think I was talking about one specific game or instance.
Hot take but basically every game should be like 2x the price to not have to do micro transactions.
A Battlefield or Call of Duty are basically 120+€ games but they make their money though stuff like a season pass instead.
The financial model of AoE4 is DLCs.
Making a DLC is a lot less effort than making a new game because most things are already there like the whole engine and the base game design.
Even content wise the DLC/Expansions offer less for their money than the base game.
But is that a bad thing?
Comparing AoE4 to different games makes little sense because there is no other RTS that comes anywhere close to Age of Empires 4.
AoE4 doesn’t compete more with Battlefield than with Netflix.
Also one of the reasons for the “high” price is the Microsoft Game pass.
With 10€ per month you have to get 6 months to get to the price of Age of Empires 4.
If you buy a second AAA game (some of them are even 70€) you spend a year worth of Game Pass on games.
They want to push people to get the Game Pass because reliable income is often more important than high but fluctuating income.
They literally abandoned Aoe Aoe2 and Aoe3 after release only to push DE’s 2 centuries later, they also removed multiplayer plattform (MSN Gaming Zone) despite 8k players signing a petition (back when players didnt have as many communication tool like modern msg services) to demand that the multiplayer plattform keeps running, regardless they took it down.
So idk why you are lying and what they are doing now isnt “supporting” the game either, they just release DLC’s after DLC’s to still their hunger for money while fixing bugs they introduced a patch earlier, with that patch having 5 new bugs on the way
The fact that there are more hotfix patches than patches should give a thinking human being an idea
Abandon game means they stop supporting it while it still has bugs etc… To play online there are and other servers where you can play almost all the games. You can play there even games 30 years old (and ofcorse all the AOE games before DE).
So there isn’t any need to keep servers if they made a Remaster (Definitive Edition) with a lot of new content at a very low price compare to every other remaster I know. ( The complain starts from this. Many want’s the AOE 4 to have the AOE 2-3 DE cost. The cost of these was very low, because many who would bought it would be people that already had the old games ).
I have bought most of the remasters from many old RTS games. Most of them were more expensive. They had not made any change at all except the 1920x1080 resolution. All the bugs were still there etc… I didn’t play any of the remaster I bought because they just hadn’t to offer anything new…
If you compare this with the AOE Definitie Edition you will understand the difference. If you just want to complain to Microsoft at least don’t involve me to your criticism.
Then I guess our conversation ends here since you cannot discuss an issue at hand brought up, relevant to gaming and can be applied across the board to many, including AOE 4 as some have tried to point out in their opinion.
a small drop wouldn’t do much.