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The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Are we going to pretend Age of Empires 4 doesn't exist? The last expansion outsold every single one from AoE2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

According to steamDB AoE IV has between 1.27 and 2.5 million owners. That is a good number, but not mainstream. At the very least not mainstream in the definition used in the article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, RTS is never going to be that kind of mainstream again, it's too complicated and can't be monetized in the way that something like a shooter can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

My apologies. You weren't arguing against the articles premise, but against the premise that there are no good current RTS games. Ignore my blabering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realize that it sold so well! That's good to hear it is successful. I'm not over the moon with the game, but I did get 30 hours or so out of it, and don't think it's bad at all. My biggest annoyance was that it felt too similar to AOE 2, which I saw as the superior game at launch. Still, that's a bit of bias from an old gamer, lol. I think it's fun!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The game had a really rough launch, I'm not surprised you got that impression if you played it back then.

I'd give it another shot, everything from gameplay to graphics has been overhauled since.