Age of Empires Online ends development; no new content planned
Age of Empires Online has stopped active development, and will not be issuing any new content or features other than some minor updates rolling out over the next few weeks.
Age of Empires Online has ceased active development and is now shifting into a "support" phase. That means no new content or features are coming, other than a few remaining minor updates that will be released over the next few weeks. Gas Powered Games says it still plans to support the game with Community Challenges, streams, contests, and PvP tournaments.
Devoted AOE Online players can still play the game, though, and GPG stresses in a FAQ that the game is not "dying." It does note that bug fixes will be slower, and some might be "unfixable," but it will be watching out for critical bugs.
The blog notes that making new content is "too expensive to maintain for long, as it turns out. We can no longer afford to keep creating it. AOEO already has a very large amount of high-quality, hand-crafted entertainment, and adding more is no longer cost-effective."
Meanwhile, Gas Powered has already started teasing its next project, so the end of development and slower bug support could signal moving staff to the new title.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Age of Empires Online ends development; no new content planned.
Age of Empires Online has stopped active development, and will not be issuing any new content or features other than some minor updates rolling out over the next few weeks.-
Lets hope this means Age of Empires 4 is entering active development now!
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is there even any old school RTS type game in development
I though generals 2 was but I heard they canceled that-
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Planetary Annihilation looks exactly like what in 2013 RTS games should have evolved into that shit looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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its still coming as free to play
http://www.commandandconquer.com/free/?utm_source=CNCHome&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=CNCTraffic-
sneak peak trailer
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Free to suck-ass you mean. It's a god damned shame what has happened to C&C in recent years. :(
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Not canceled. Made free to play, which is worse. I wish it had been canceled over being made free to play. At least then I still could have dreamed that it would have been good :(
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yup it will be worse
Free to nick and dime the user.
aka oh you want the full experience ether play over 100 hours and unlock everything or pay 39.99 per faction or some shit knowing EA
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I've been working on the Command and Conquer project for a long time now and it's coming along just fine and is very much an "old school RTS type game". We recently had some community members out to show the game and you can read a couple of reports from that here: http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=910692
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AOE:O and Microsoft Flight are the last PC games published by Microsoft Studios (nee Microsoft Game Studios), though those two were "casual" games, a last gasp attempt before giving up on the PC entirely, aside from Metro games (known under the deceptive moniker "XBox Games for Windows"). It's a shame that both the Age of Empires and Flight Simulator franchises had to go out with a whimper.
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I liked it too. It's too bad Microsoft really just does not care much about pc gaming.
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They obviously cared enough about the game to have it developed and supported for as long as it has been. I have to assume that it being F2P made it hard to monetize, especially after it went completely free, unless you wanted boosters. Everything was paid for at the start, then they switched to the Empire Points system, paying for new Civs with in-game currency.
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