New content appeased the existing player base, but failed to bring in new players. Age of Empires Online is no longer receiving updates, though Kerry was reticent to call his talk a "post-mortem" given that around 10, people are still playing. In the end, he said, changing the entire production model of the game was what it really needed. Sadly, he and his team realized that truth a bit too late. Sign up. What Age of Empires Online says about Steam's impact on free-to-play games.
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Some of our stories include affiliate links. Perhaps an aggressive discount, or a one weekend giveaway can boost demand a little. Man i am so bumped about this. I really liked playing that game online. Weird that it was full lobbies in october november december. In fact I played a lot online the last year, and yes, lots of lobbies.
The few, but those de-sync failures are unacceptable. I know that this game is different being p2p, but it would be nice to have a more robust network code, or more effcient one sending coordinate differential updates instead absolute updates , or at least, manage the network crashes better, and not make the whole game stop or even crash if this happens.
This would be very frustrating for begineer players. There are still players in this game, but for some reason you need to update the game search multiple times so that all games are visible. Personally I also prefer the gameplay of AOE 1, with its mistakes and simplicity. Ooh really?
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