Why was the age of empires series abandoned?

[cedarfarms]

I dont get why everyone is fighting and arguing, i mean we all want the same thing here. So instead why not try if together with everyone in the community we can somehow do something maybe get someones attention that there is still thousands and thousands who love this game, and with a real sequel with some advertisement, 15 years of pass age of empires players will come back to purchase the new game. I always thought lack of advertising was a big reason this game didnt reach its full potential, this game is really like nothing else i have ever played just in the way that you can sit and think about it for hours without even playing. But in reality, no matter what our community of 2000 does, whatever microsoft has planned is what is going to happen, and sitting here typing this 8 years after TAD came out, i sadly think its going to be nothing but turn off the servers sometime in the future.

But IMO we should still try, we organized a 256 person tourney, we could def organize some kind of event or something right?

[SoldieR]

When aoe3 came out there was a LOT of complaining about computer requirements to run. The graphics on max were absolutely insane but veerrrry few could run it.

[macacoalbino]

Yeah, I remember they wanted to revolutionize water graphics back then. The problem is, nobody with average computers would play water online because the game lagged a lot (talking about average people)

[momuuu]

Water maps still lagg quite a bit honestly.

[macacoalbino]

for me as well, but hell, my notebook is so bad that it lags on land maps sometimes :v

[momuuu]

Try hiding the particles, that helps the lagg a little bit.

[oxaloacetate]

people who work for the government are the last people in the world who know how to actually run anything

free money stolen from the people, nothing useful is done with it. look at the state the world is in LOL

companies need to work well to survive. governments can just parasite the populations they terrorize


criticizing the way microsoft does things about a video game is laughable at best

I''d say it''s pretty damn good, tauntamont to a historic high point. Claiming anything else is pretty uncalled for, not to say historically incorrect.

Why does everyone on this forum have so much sand in their vayay.

[Mr. Pecksniff]

The age of empires series wasn't abandoned. They made AoE:O. It flopped. That was it.

[iNcog]

people who work for the government are the last people in the world who know how to actually run anything

free money stolen from the people, nothing useful is done with it. look at the state the world is in LOL

companies need to work well to survive. governments can just parasite the populations they terrorize


criticizing the way microsoft does things about a video game is laughable at best

Id say its pretty damn good, tauntamont to a historic high point. Claiming anything else is pretty uncalled for, not to say historically incorrect.

Why does everyone on this forum have so much sand in their vayay.

this bait is so boring im a bored fish look at this

the world is in a crap state

[zoom]

In some ways ?? certainly! In others, it is in historic high-points...

[momuuu]

Id say its pretty damn good, tauntamont to a historic high point. Claiming anything else is pretty uncalled for, not to say historically incorrect.

Why does everyone on this forum have so much sand in their vayay.

this bait is so boring im a bored fish look at this

the world is in a crap state

The world only seems worse because of better media coverage. I think less and less people die from murders/wars every year, while people around the world have a better life expectancy and become richer and richer. This economical crisis we are talking about is bad in some countries, but I know that many countries experience a crisis if the economical growth isnt that big. Its crisis in china when the economy only grows with 7% every year lol.

[Einfein]

Blizzard did offer to buy the AoE series many years back. At the time they wanted additional IP to develop, but MS decided not to. I'm not a MS fan at all (quite the opposite), but I suspect they have a plan. The AoE franchise is well known in the RTS world even to people who never played it. I would imagine they are waiting to develop the series further when it financially makes sense for them (whenever the heck that may be).

Someone mentioned earlier that they thought it was pretty sad that so many people bought the Forgotten expansion for AoE2. I bought it simply in the hopes that with enough cash flowing in MS might decide to green light a new Age game sooner rather then later. MS will show up wherever there is easy money to be had.

Also (and most here will probably disagree), but AoE3 did not meet the high expectations of being the sequel to AoK. It's a great game, but I still remember vanilla when very large portions of the community were upset about the card system and felt it wasn't a true AoE game. Sounds kind of like AoEO's reception. It did sell well, but many community members went back to AoK or AoM. The community was never huge (compared to say AoK or Brood Wars) and I suspect this had a lot to due with the AoE series being semi abandoned.

A few years back I was able to speak to a few former ES employees and at least from an internal stand point the closure of ES was very sudden and unexpected to them. I thought Robot entertainment might be looking to develop a new Age game, but based on their own press releases and statements they are entirely focused on their own newer IP.

Bottom line there is no definitive answer to the OP's question, just lots of guesses and theories (like mine).

[Good ol Ivan]

The RTS age is dead, it's all about MOBAs now.
I wouldn't expect an AoE4 any time soon.

[momuuu]

The RTS age is dead, it''s all about MOBAs now.
I wouldn''t expect an AoE4 any time soon.

Unfortunately that''s probably true. But there hasnt been any big RTS title lately, only sc2.

[thebritish]

The RTS age is dead, it''s all about MOBAs now.
I wouldn''t expect an AoE4 any time soon.

you never know