Several years after AOE3, a game that many claim to hate but still maintains a 1500-2000 pop 8 years after launch, MS decided to make Age of Empires Online. This game had a horrible launch with severe Pay 2 Win problems and only 2 civs but slowly, as the developers changed the formula and released more civs, the game became much better. Just as it seemed that AOE:O could be a serious RTS contender, MS let Gas Powered Games go and declared the game "finished" (it wasn't).
Now they're making another F2P Age of Empires, but this time on [b]mobile.[/b] That's right, a MOBILE RTS game that will most likely be Pay 2 Win like AOE:O.
Why are they doing this?!?!!