Talk:Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition/@comment-2003:DB:F3D6:1BE1:9406:98D5:88DF:507-20190805122032

"New server based multiplayer"

This one worries me.

And it really bugs me, that people are only seeing the positive in this, not looking at the negative. Like ease of usage; gosh! - ease of usage! ... I can hop into a game with my friend playing against AI any minute, and if it weren't for onlinelobbies being there all the time, of people searching for a game each and every day, this game may very well have been dead LONG AGO. That age of empires 2 is still relevant is THANKS to this oppen approach (and without this, there would be no AOE1-DE, no AOE2-DE!) that needed no extensive server landscape to keep running. Now they rip that out, for the allusive benefit of besting someone with worse connection, not thinking twice about what that means for the future (for longevity) ??? - how is being more dependent on the "charitable" behavior of a big software-company [to actively keep things running] a good thing???

have you guys learned NOTHING from "games as a service is fraud" (YT) ???