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Ka-pi96 said:

JEMC said:

I think that, without Steam sales, both the remake and AoE4 will be comercial failures. The Windows Store isn't that big.

But as you noted with Halo Wars 2, MSoft is a mistery when it comes to decide what games they launch on Steam and which not, so they may decide that it's best for them to have a comercial failure only on their store than having a success on Steam.

By the way, maybe they didn't put Halo Wars 2 on Steam because the first one hasn't been a success. If we look at SteamSpy we see that:

• Age of Empire 2 HD_ 4.8 million owners
• Age of Empire 3_ 2.3 million owners
• Age of Mythology_ 1.2 million owners
• Halo Wars_ 166 thousand owners

Halo didn't work.

Didn't it release just a couple of months before Halo Wars 2 though? It's hardly surprising it didn't do so well. Besides, as an RTS Halo is no where near the level of popularity of AOE. If they ever release the Master Chief Collection on Steam I think that would sell very well though... I know I'd definitely buy it!

I don't really know when Halo Wars 2 launched so I can't say. But the first one launched in April, and those sales seem very low after almost 9 months and the game being on sale several times.

The Master Chief Collection would obviously do better, but maybe not that much better. The last game to land on PC was Halo 2 in an attempt to sell Vista, and that was a lo ng ago. I don't know if the collection would have much hype.

Besides, it's not even on the Windows Store yet, so I'm not even sure if MSoft will put it on PC ever.