Microsoft shuts down Age of Empires Online

Microsoft close down its free-to-play PC game, Historic period of Empires Online, on Tuesday evening, less than 3 years later on the online real fourth dimension strategy game launched in August 2022.

The game, which was originally developed by Robot Amusement and then by Gas Powered Games, was based, somewhat loosely, on the Historic period of Empires RTS series from the now defunct Ensemble Studios. Microsoft had high hopes that the well known franchise, combined with its free-to-play blueprint, would prove to be pop with online games. In Oct 2022, Microsoft released a Windows Phone app for the game, which allow users bank check their in-game stats, view recipes for items and more.

In the end, however, Age of Empires Online'southward design, which included microtransactions to buy premium content via existent coin, did not sit well with players. In 2022, Microsoft inverse that program and let users purchase that kind of content via in-game "Empire Points" that could exist collected via gameplay, which truly made it costless to play.

In January 2022, Microsoft announced that no more additional content would exist added to Age of Empires Online, followed in September with the announcement that the game itself would close downwardly July one. On Tuesday, in a final blog postal service, Microsoft showed that during the lifespan of the game, in that location were over 500 million unmarried role player missions played, along with over thirteen million multiplayer quests and over two million loonshit matches.

Microsoft plans to publish Age of Empires: World Domination, an all new game made specifically for mobile devices, including Windows Phone, later this summer.

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