Windows Store = Locked to one single version of one OS only. Besides, I miss the smell of a new instruction manual. It's a situation that we never needed to be in and it doesn't seem to be getting any better, especially with other publishers talking about how a client for just their games would benefit their company and in-turn, benefit the customer.Ĭall me old fashioned, but I'd rather go back to DRM-free retail copies and keep countless binders full of install/play discs than deal with logging in and out of multiple clients when I want to play something else (not to mention how often these clients come under cyber attacks which make it far easier to get your identity/bank account stolen). TV already does this to us with Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO GO, and now Disney is breaking away from Netflix and starting their own service (and taking Marvel with them). It would be a different story if AoE4 and all other games were allowed to be on all platforms and the end user decides which one to use - that could facilitate the clients to offer better services which could easily benefit the consumers.Īt the moment it's not a huge deal since all these different clients are free to use but it's still unnecessary to have four or five different clients on your computer just to play your games. So we'll see whether it's just PC-only or cross-platform, because if it's the latter, the gameplay will inevitably end up 'evolving' into the usual watered down consolized "MOBA with some strategy elements" hybrid rather than any serious PC-optimised RTS.Ĭompetition is good, but it doesn't help us at all having multiple different distributors who lock their games to that client. MS had their chance with Ensemble Studio's, but made it very clear to everyone back then that any game / gameplay that couldn't fit on an XBox + controller + 10ft UI had to go. Like many of the community, the only solution for an urge to play AoE2, is to fire up AoE2 again and simply not care about lame cash-ins that come 15 years too late. Maybe they'll be extra generous and add Denuvo. And probably stuffed with micro-transactions for the "modern" gamer. With MS pushing their own store, you can guarantee it'll be "exclusively" locked to that. AoE2, AoM and RoN "enhanced" re-releases did nothing more than take already pre-existing community widescreen patches and content, re-package them and stick in more DRM (despite being published by Ubisoft, the Age of Empires "Collectors Edition" DVD-ROM was surprisingly completely DRM-free). AoE3 already lost the random map generation feature in the first two (plus inferior interface in general).
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