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Tencent's soulless Age of Empires Mobile cash-grab is here to ruin your childhood (www.androidpolice.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a mobile game, with Tencent involved. Was there ever any question it was going to be a soulless cash-grab?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Was there ever any question it was going to be a soulless cash-grab?

Well, there was certainly question before we found out that Tencent was involved. Back when all we knew about it was that it would be called Age of Empires: Mobile. At a time not long after the AoE2 and AoE4 ports to console & controller had shown to be surprisingly a really good way to play the games we love on a novel input scheme. Back then, yeah I honestly thought the reason this was being done was because they thought they had come up with a good way to get a good RTS experience on a mobile device.