IAmSoldieR wrote:They're making aoe2 a mess. You have aoe2 nilla, aoc expansion, then African expansion, aoe2 HD , and now aoe2 de lol wtf
Not entirely accurate, if you're talking about different balances then there are 3 options: Age of Kings, AoE2:The Conquerors and AoE2 with all expansions.
If you're talking about different platforms then there is Userpatch, AoE2:HD and AoE2:DE.
And if you're talking about all the different expansions then there's Age of Kings, The Conquerors, The Forgotten, African Kingdoms, Rise of the Rajas and the newly announced expansion.
These things still split up the community, but it's not split in as many ways as you describe.
I also have some hope that it will be possible to upgrade the HD version with some discount to the DE version, so that the split will remain as minimal as possible but we'll have to see.
Btw: not saying Microsoft hasn't milked AoE2 with the HD edition, because they have.