AOE4 Pricing

[Challenger_Marco]

Age of Empires IV launching October 28th Xbox Game Pass for PC, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Windows 10, and Steam, available for Pre-order Now!

Microsoft Store: https://www.ageofempires.com/news/aoeiv-preorder-now
Steam:



Minimum System Requirements for aoe4:

It's actually low as you can see

Minimum AOE2 DE System Requirement:


Minimum AOE3 DE System Requirement:




So as you can see the pre-order price is 60$ USD for aoe4 kinda seems ridiculous pricing? idk how this is going to work ,if they are going to be dlcs then it should be free else i don't know how this works.

They been making this game for 6 years from the announcement of aoe4 .....is it worth the hype?? for 60$ i think people might prefer to buy an AAA game instead of aoe4 ...how will they achieve competitive esports in this? is this an overhyped game ? a disaster like Cyberpunk 2077?

Discuss about this and your thoughts on how this strategy by MS will work out or critic as you wish.

[gibson]

60$ for a game that will suck on release

[Zutazuta]

Seems reasonable

[princeofcarthage]

60$ for a game that will suck on release

Don't be a moron, noel says it will be good.

[Squamiger]

just gonna wait a year, aoe3 is already all the fun i need and all the time i have for computer games anyways

[aaryngend]

So as you can see the pre-order price is 60$ USD for aoe4 kinda seems ridiculous pricing? idk how this is going to work ,if they are going to be dlcs then it should be free else i don't know how this works.

Ridiculous? All AAA games cost 50-70 bucks on release. Look no further than console games. I for one am glad that it costs this much and most likely won't be a microtransaction riddled online game (it will have some for sure but that's fine). All core games (in contrast to casual games) cost a hefty price on start.

They been making this game for 6 years from the announcement of aoe4 .....is it worth the hype?? for 60$ i think people might prefer to buy an AAA game instead of aoe4 ...how will they achieve competitive esports in this? is this an overhyped game ? a disaster like Cyberpunk 2077?

No, it got announced in Fall of 2017, so when the game comes out it has exactly been 4 years since said announcement. That is more than reasonable in my book.

[Challenger_Marco]

exactly been 4 years since said announcement. That is more than reasonable in my book.

Yes w/e the years are still long but still...

[aaryngend]

exactly been 4 years since said announcement. That is more than reasonable in my book.

Yes w/e the years are still long but still...

The game requires DX12. Loving this! RTS games can benefit so much from it if implemented correctly. 1 year more or less doesn't matter. It needs to be a good product.

[Djigit]

Use the code "iwillspankyou" for a 50% discount.

[princeofcarthage]

exactly been 4 years since said announcement. That is more than reasonable in my book.

Yes w/e the years are still long but still...

The game requires DX12. Loving this! RTS games can benefit so much from it if implemented correctly. 1 year more or less doesn't matter. It needs to be a good product.

Wrong attitude. It needs to be a good product and in reasonable time.

[aaryngend]

Wrong attitude. It needs to be a good product and in reasonable time.

Good things take time

[DayanG]

A nice product could come out, as I have seen I don't like it too much aoe2 with 3d graphics and the mechanics are slow I prefer training at 5 but this will never be possible with the non-instant resource collection.
Hopefully it's worth that price

[I_HaRRiiSoN_I]

If you think DLC's for aoe4 will be free then you are definitely dreaming on cloud 9! given the current game market then i think there is high chance that there will be 3 streams of cash generation of base game sales, DLCs and customisation.

£49.99 GBP is pretty steep though :/

[lemmings121]

considering how much I played the original aoe3/twc/tad, the current price for aoe4 is totally worth it.. IF the game actually delivers. But of aoe3de is any reference, i'm expecting 8 months of patches until units dont get stuck in trading posts... then def. is not worth it.

What I actually saw is that the xbox subscription is super cheap for the first month, so i'm planing to subscribe on that for a single month on age4 release and use it as trial period to decide if i'm actually going to buy the game or not

[Dolan]

About the same as Cyberpunk. Hillarious if Microsoft thinks this will be seen as a triple A game.

[dansil92]

i paid full price for most of my games that i own, usually around 60 dollars. assuming aoe4 delivers on its promises thats a perfectly reasonable price point assuming it comes with unlimited online play, a good ai and tech/balance support for at least several years.

[iron_turtle]

I will buy this one year later in Steam autumn sale, when all the bugs are fixed, meta for all civs are developed so I can just look up strategies, and the prices are down by 66%.

[Thrar]

$60 seems like standard pricing for full-size non-indie games to me, not just top of the market AAA titles. The original AoE2 and AoE3 games cost similar amounts on release and that was over 15 years ago!

Wrong attitude. It needs to be a good product and in reasonable time.

Good things take time

The infamous product development triangle: Optimize for cost, time, or quality? Pick two.

Product managers who say they want all 3 and will end up releasing an unfinished product behind schedule and above budget, achieving none. The DEs were optimized for cost and time, sacrificing quality (AoE2:DE had similar quality issues a year earlier).
With MS's deep pockets and presumably the goal of building a major franchise title, I'm hoping AoE4 will optimize primarily for quality and to some extent time. 4 years development time isn't that much imo for non-indie titles that are not direct sequels built on an existing core.

[RefluxSemantic]

60 bucks is just the standard price for games? Why are people surprised about it then?

[princeofcarthage]

@Challenger_Marco its not even 60 bucks for us...

[sebnan12]

60 bucks is just the standard price for games? Why are people surprised about it then?

I dont think anyone would mind if there wasnt the constant fear of it being implanted with dlcs.

[helln00]

@Challenger_Marco its not even 60 bucks for us...

Yeah its like 30 bucks for me

[princeofcarthage]

@Challenger_Marco its not even 60 bucks for us...

Yeah its like 30 bucks for me

Yeah about 35 dollars for me

[RefluxSemantic]

60 bucks is just the standard price for games? Why are people surprised about it then?

I dont think anyone would mind if there wasnt the constant fear of it being implanted with dlcs.

Thats still completely normal..

Remember when aoe3 came out for 60 bucks and then had two ~30 bucks expansions?

[Mr_Bramboy]

You guys forgot about the multiplayer access subscription model.