Age of Empires Mobile: it is what it is 

because this is just a lazy reskin of some generic J/K-rpg

Because that's easier

Ill never understand mobile gaming yes...I guess it makes sense in less rich parts of the world, but else...

What to expect from a shitty Tencent subsidiary. These studios only exist to mobify famous IPs for quick cash, just like Diablo Immortal

yup ppl just have it backwards: This is not an Age of Empires, history based gamed "made into" a generic fictional medieval type of game, it's a random basic shovel ware mobile game with an AOE sticker on it. As Viper said, it's per se not a terrible bad thing, and potentially benefitial for the AOE brand in general, but it is also absolutely valid to not condone these type of predatory gacha mobile games in our society out of principle. I haven't played the game but I formed an extensive opinion on Raid Shadow Legends on my own, and I assume this goes for this or a lot of other mobile games aswell: For what they are, mechanically and what their purpose and place in the gaming economy of a random player is - they are fine games. I found the first few hours of RAID very enjoyable and as more of the game with different game modes etc opened up I was actually quite impressed. Without going into much detail, the point I want to make is: If it wasnt for the predatory monetisation, in my opionion Raid was a good game. If one could imagine the game released as a "regular" PC game or mobile game for that matter, with an usual (low) or no upfront cost and no further paywalls (idk imagine League of Legends or Guild Wars), just the bare gameplay loop (reimagined to not rely on the boosts from microtransactions) I would still play it occasionally in my phone today. But the aggressive and increasingly toxic exponential growth of ressources needed, time waited (if not counteracted by paying real money) will always kill a game for me, sooner or later, depending how rapidly the game wants you to bend over.

You probably haven't played mobile games recently.

​@@DmytroBogdan mobile games still suck

@@AkuGantengCuy agree but we doesn't know the OP's definition of "horrible game" Not all mobile games suck

You haven't seen the extent of the pay to win yet

​@@DmytroBogdan but all rts mobile games is sucks 😡

Return to empire was also AoE title, they did not reskin it

Additionally, it is also a clone of rise of kingdoms, with almost exactly the same UI and items with exactly the same gameplay.

Lol rise of kingdoms came before that return of Empire shit

This is the way to go. But why only one range. I want 2365% more range.

@@SoIstDassAlso yes, but that will cost you 27500 gold (95% discount) and is only available if you have Premier membership

It’s to spend money

Phil Spencer and co.

By title only. $$$

Seriously. Justice for Age of Noob!

What happened? It doesn't look like he can speak freely about it himself, unfortunately...

Why bro?

@@RICARDORR18 He got booted out of the Partner Program for making a video that spoke negatively of the mobile game. He also didn't get paid by Microsoft for making the video that they asked him to make.

​​@@SvanTowerMan it was Timi studios(Tencent) who asked for video

@@Tempires Doesn't matter. They asked for the video under the agreement that they would pay him for his work. He made the video, they didn't like it, and then they refused to pay him. It's a clear-cut case of breach of contract.

money dude

Same as with microtransactions answer is always more money. Just like Viper said, this soulless cash grab is probably gonna generate more revenue than any previous AoE title.

I assume M$ really need some money now that they've bought Activision Blizzard. If M$ wasn't such a shitty company before, now they definitely are, with those likes under their wings.

​@@BrisketBoi i would argue that it's such a trash that mobile players would shit on it

​@@fayandgakeno, mobile players have very low demands

No

We already have AOE5 and its amazing. Its on Steam Workshop.

​@@ross1116how to find it?

😂

it was really pixel-ish, right? yes, that was the first AoE movile game, funnily enough, it was better that this new one 11

​@@bunga6475yeah, I have played both aoe 2 and 3 on Java tbh

bro i still remember it was decent and for a mobile java game, it was pretty complex and fun to learn the game mechanics

An arrow with a badly made stone tip. 😂

Well, longbows *were* the demise of knights in plate armor as the ultimate soldier.

China has recently cracked down on the Gacha industry with more laws against it.

​@@NoraNoitaCan you elaborate? I play some of them, without spending a penny ofc, what happened?

@@NoraNoita what laws LMAO

Spending money on a mobile game is very rare in India. I would even say more rare than it is in the west (atleast the US). In the US( maybe west) , there are lot of expenses made with the "let's support the developers" mentality which isn't really how the asia market responds. It is more cutthroat and driven by game experience. And people who are susceptible to overspending and getting addicted to mobile games can be from anywhere.

People don't have expendable incomes outside of US and EU.

You know what makes this game even more sad? Company of Heroes, the original, is on iPad. And it’s literally THE game. It’s not some crappy mobile rip off. It’s full CoH 1.

Probably an elastic sleeve. He had a wrist surgery a few years ago

This game does not target PC players

Or to have something you can get a little bit by playing, so you can have a "taste", but not enough to satisfy you, and make you want to get more and pay.

@@thomasfplm That's a good point.

To be fair, AoE1 had military upgrades in the storage pits and walls and tower upgrades in the granary. If anything that aspect is more true to the AoE brand than AoE2 is.

The worst part is that there are actually good mobile games, but they are rather rare and the industry doesn't seem to want to change it...

Magic sword is not the problem. Age Of Mythology also had magical elements and I loved it. I don't mind magical elements. The game must have the same mechanics as Age Of Empires that is what I want. If it doesn't have Age Of Empires mechanics then I won't play it.

Not all mobile games are bad. There are some great mobile games too. You need to play "Art Of War 3: Global Conflict". BEST GAME EVER. You won't have a single complain in that game I can guarantee this.

They asked when only the janitor was around lol. And he still did a far better job than this scam deserves

What could be pro gameplay for this game? The only games on mobile are shit like genshin impact/ league of legends type games on rts, pubg type games, rpg games and indie games

@@princejangra5298 I personally dont play any mobile games, But I am sure that people who do play mobile RTS games probably have a different prospective and I remember Age of noob saying that the game has surprising depth. So maybe, apart from the obvious money grab, there might be things fun about the game which viper missed.

Best comment 😂

Yeah, instead of making AoE they copied 7000 other games that are literally the same, including mostly the same heroes... the only difference is in the name. But I think a lot of these types of games have a lot of big spenders playing, so I'm pretty sure this is just a cash grab and not something made for fans of AoE.

@@timihari yeah that's most likely what's going on.

Asia. I've been to Japan last year, 2 out of 3 people on the train/subway/bus were playing games on their phone. I heard the same of China and Indonesia. It is a really huge market with a lot of money. It probably never was intended that the "normal" AoE playerbase is playing this. Which is fine imo.

As Viper said this game will grab more money in a year than all AoE franchise did in 25 years combined

That's why mobile games so unclean greeds

Hahaha sucks building upgrades or troops upgrades with tiers as monotonous rts mobile trash 😂

At least Blizzard made an effort to make their game look like Diablo and there is a decent official PC port.