I know we haven’t received too much information about DE, but I am hoping Microsoft allows a modding community to grow. Personally, I would like to see a community akin to that of the civilization series. Don’t need full mod support like Bethesda games, as long as its possible people tend to come up with some pretty amazing stuff.
What are your thoughts? Is this something you would like to see or are mods more of a non factor for you?
Like other maps, td and more games?
Let’s hope there is some kind of workshop to help modders to upload their work.
I hope that they will implement some sort of hub akin to the steam workshop for easy map and mod sharing. AoEH is great, just a bit cumbersome and daunting to newcomers I feel.
It would be awesome to have an option to choose a mod when setting up a game.
That way, you could install all your favorites and then switch on the fly instead of going through a long process or having different copies of the game folder for each one.
(I’ve got around ten different installations of AOE with different mods and patches applied to each one)
If M$ even want a chance to take on Valve/Steam with their own store platform, they’ll have to put a workshop in at some point - This isn’t logically debatable, it’s just totally ignorable (ahem… EA).
Valve’s hegemony is ever present in PC gaming. Behind the illusion of the “Steam PC Justice for All” goody goody face mask, Value corporately owns… Or should that be pwns?
Regarding a current competitor, Origin: It isn’t actually “bad” in what it does at all. EA however, had thrown themselves out of the race before starting. The “spit in your shoes for a few extra bucks” tactic they regularly get called out on is just too damning in most gamer’s minds these days for them to properly compete. If Valve does something similar, (almost) no one gives a toot - Ask yourselves why that is…
Mod support adds a ton of replayability. I played AoE II:HD for several months just for CBA maps.
If you haven’t seen what the Age Team has said so far about mod support in AoE:DE check out this post: https://forums.ageofempires.com/discussion/comment/11723/#Comment_11723
This is a discussion topic I brought to the community a while ago! Take a look at my post:
https://forums.ageofempires.com/discussion/853/age-of-empires-definitive-edition-workshop#latest
@“Helios Ra” said:
If M$ even want a chance to take on Valve/Steam with their own store platform, they’ll have to put a workshop in at some point - This isn’t logically debatable, it’s just totally ignorable (ahem… EA).Valve’s hegemony is ever present in PC gaming. Behind the illusion of the “Steam PC Justice for All” goody goody face mask, Value corporately owns… Or should that be pwns?
Regarding a current competitor, Origin: It isn’t actually “bad” in what it does at all. EA however, had thrown themselves out of the race before starting. The “spit in your shoes for a few extra bucks” tactic they regularly get called out on is just too damning in most gamer’s minds these days for them to properly compete. If Valve does something similar, (almost) no one gives a toot - Ask yourselves why that is…
They don’t care. They prefer don’t sell than give more money to other plataform.
The FE team should be fully aware the want for a workshop for AoE: DE, fingers crossed they can put one through. Upatch also has a mod manager, so if the base of DE is starting from Upatch, there will be a mod manager and a modding system from the get go of DE.
Hopefully…
@Augustusman said:
@“Helios Ra” said:
If M$ even want a chance to take on Valve/Steam with their own store platform, they’ll have to put a workshop in at some point - This isn’t logically debatable, it’s just totally ignorable (ahem… EA).Valve’s hegemony is ever present in PC gaming. Behind the illusion of the “Steam PC Justice for All” goody goody face mask, Value corporately owns… Or should that be pwns?
Regarding a current competitor, Origin: It isn’t actually “bad” in what it does at all. EA however, had thrown themselves out of the race before starting. The “spit in your shoes for a few extra bucks” tactic they regularly get called out on is just too damning in most gamer’s minds these days for them to properly compete. If Valve does something similar, (almost) no one gives a toot - Ask yourselves why that is…
They don’t care. They prefer don’t sell than give more money to other plataform.
They have the right not to care. That’s “the game” in business - risk/reward.
At the end of the day, the difference for me (and other people like me) is thus:
I’m totally not every PC player or every gamer, I never said I was. But what I can see and understand is that, as a Steam user, I am closer the many and not the few.
@VainWarlord said:
I hope that they will implement some sort of hub akin to the steam workshop for easy map and mod sharing. AoEH is great, just a bit cumbersome and daunting to newcomers I feel.
It is not going to be launched on steam…
@MisguidedMonk54 said:
@VainWarlord said:
I hope that they will implement some sort of hub akin to the steam workshop for easy map and mod sharing. AoEH is great, just a bit cumbersome and daunting to newcomers I feel.It is not going to be launched on steam…
I know. That´s why I said I hoped to have something akin to the steam workshop.
They could always make an AoEDEH page ;p
@VainWarlord said:
@MisguidedMonk54 said:
@VainWarlord said:
I hope that they will implement some sort of hub akin to the steam workshop for easy map and mod sharing. AoEH is great, just a bit cumbersome and daunting to newcomers I feel.It is not going to be launched on steam…
I know. That´s why I said I hoped to have something akin to the steam workshop.
@VainWarlord said:
@MisguidedMonk54 said:
@VainWarlord said:
I hope that they will implement some sort of hub akin to the steam workshop for easy map and mod sharing. AoEH is great, just a bit cumbersome and daunting to newcomers I feel.It is not going to be launched on steam…
I know. That´s why I said I hoped to have something akin to the steam workshop.
Sorry, I didn’t see it 
Sorry
@MisguidedMonk54 said:
Sorry, I didn’t see it
Dont worry man,
@“Helios Ra” said:
@Augustusman said:
@“Helios Ra” said:
If M$ even want a chance to take on Valve/Steam with their own store platform, they’ll have to put a workshop in at some point - This isn’t logically debatable, it’s just totally ignorable (ahem… EA).Valve’s hegemony is ever present in PC gaming. Behind the illusion of the “Steam PC Justice for All” goody goody face mask, Value corporately owns… Or should that be pwns?
Regarding a current competitor, Origin: It isn’t actually “bad” in what it does at all. EA however, had thrown themselves out of the race before starting. The “spit in your shoes for a few extra bucks” tactic they regularly get called out on is just too damning in most gamer’s minds these days for them to properly compete. If Valve does something similar, (almost) no one gives a toot - Ask yourselves why that is…
They don’t care. They prefer don’t sell than give more money to other plataform.
They have the right not to care. That’s “the game” in business - risk/reward.
At the end of the day, the difference for me (and other people like me) is thus:
- Buying the new AoE on M$ platform and going back to Steam for everything else.
- Or buying it on M$ platform and seeing future possibilities in the platform and taking an actual interest which may lead to more investment within the platform.
I’m totally not every PC player or every gamer, I never said I was. But what I can see and understand is that, as a Steam user, I am closer the many and not the few.
Like streaming services, I don’t want to have 10 different platforms to buy and play games from.
It’s stupid, not competitive, and unrealistic.
Microsoft don’t want to be butt hurt again like they did with Game For Windows Live, so they use this as an excuse.