WTF!!!! what will happen to AoE my fav pc series -.- and i was wating for AoE4...
| MrBubbles said: microsoft still owns the rights to age of empires and has plenty of talent... so i dont see why they couldnt make more of them. |
I think that if AoE were going to survive as a series, and any old dev team could have pulled it off, MS would have closed Ensemble the day after they realized AoE was wildly popular, and farmed the game out to a cheaper studio somewhere in the former Eastern Bloc.
Truly disheartening, I loved the AoE series and hope that it continues with a new team. The gaming industry is a cut-throat business in many ways and this is unfortunate. I wish only the best for the former Ensemble studios and its employees and hope that it has future success.
Groucho said:
I think that if AoE were going to survive as a series, and any old dev team could have pulled it off, MS would have closed Ensemble the day after they realized AoE was wildly popular, and farmed the game out to a cheaper studio somewhere in the former Eastern Bloc. |
perhaps its possible that this "leadership team" will still be able to do them then.
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Fuck you Microsoft! Fuck you! Age of Empires is the greatest RTS franchise of all time!
Fuck you!
ssj12 said:
because M$ are greedy idiots. |
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Age of empires on the 360?? could happen
Its like the anti-Midas touch. =\
sinha said:
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Now that I've calmed down a bit, Microsoft are a bunch of idiots.
1. Ensemble Studios was a great studio. The Age series has sold over 20 million to date, resulting in a lot of profit for Microsoft.
2. First they let BioWare and Bizarre get eaten up by larger publishers, killing their second party, then they let Bungie go independent (though at least they're still second party), then they ignored Itigaki when he became a free agent (no more NG or DOA, but at least they could've gotten something else from the man), and now this.
With 90% of all third party titles going multiplat (almost 100%, if you count timed exclusives like Eternal Sonata), this is a horrible position for MS to be in.
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