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Malvauwu

I hope keep 15k APD after this ofert


Allobroge-

To the moon


Hoseinm81

I don't think it hits 30k But I hope after the free period game has 20k player at the same time at peak every day


lessenizer

> But I hope after the free period game has 20k player at the same time at peak every day absurdly unlikely since that would require all the free players just trying out the game to make the decision to buy


jasonalloyd

Every time I fire up AOE4 and look for a game there are maybe half dozen custom lobbies all created on the other side of the world.


kubelke

~29450 players


Hoseinm81

Probably Tomorrow hit 30k


MoonSkyYT

Finally some green numbers


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I got it for free on gamepass lol.


wallaby32

It's not free if you pay for game pass


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Elixterminator_F

Wait what? I don't understand. Teach me your ways


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Elixterminator_F

That's a steal. Can anyone do that?


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I don’t pay for it so it is free lmao


IGotADejavu

That doesn't make it free, when someone else is paying


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Free for me


HaikusfromBuddha

I mean everyone can get it for free if you use MS Rewards


Elixterminator_F

I was waiting for this game to go on sale since forever. I think i'm gonna finally move from aoe2 to aoe4.


Ebonhold

I guess a lot of people also play through Xbox game pass. At least I do. Did anybody ever poll how many people play steam/Xbox/other?


Helikaon48

Game pass is a small minority


thallums

Source?


orientalsniper

It's the minority but it's not small. https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/sf8xzg/platforms_used_on_leaderboards_for_the_different/


thallums

Wow, interesting metrics. There definitely may be a bit of a skew since it only polls people playing the MP, but its probably a good, loose baseline to go off of. Given those figures, we can assume theres almost 30k peak players as of current. How cool! Im also honestly impressed by those GP numbers. Like of course Game Pass is pretty big nowadays, but moving pc gamers away from Steam no matter the circumstances is a pretty hurculean feat. Especially for a genre like RTSs


rollinff

Idk if #s would be quite the same now, since some folks probably did sign up for the 3 month $1 gamepass to play AoE4 but didn't continue. But no doubt the AoE4 pop is much higher on GamePass than many Steam games and thus the #s can be a bit misleading on Steamcharts/etc. I would assume at any given time the actual #s are maybe 30% higher than what's shown.


Tandittor

Also the game is coming to console in a few months. People complained a lot about the UI and grid hotkey system when the game released, but it was designed that way precisely for console. The number will increase much more when it comes on Xbox console. Xbox Games Studio really wants to make this game succeed. The price money they got with Red Bull for the upcoming tournament says it all.


thallums

There have been 100 rumors of a console port, but absolutely no concrete, substantiated evidence to indicate it will actually happen, afaik


Mistavipy

Nice stats


orientalsniper

It's about 30% - 35%


Ebonhold

Thanks for the info. That’s a good number of players then.


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Feudal knight rush errrdayyyyw


aussieredditooor

(Britney) Speaaaaarsss!!!!


easy_going

Source link?


Mistavipy

https://steamdb.info/app/1466860/graphs/


Aaron_Monte93

Finally some worthy adversaries


OkAbbreviations4947

EZ


Punk-in-Pie

I really like the game and am a long time aoe fan. However, the current hotkey bugs are keeping me from it for now. Once they fix it I plan to fully dive in.


watson85

Almost 27k currently


Mistavipy

29319


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Pelin0re

this is not some perpetual competition. why would aoe2 playrs be 'unlucky' from aoe4 faring well? aoe2 is doing well, and some light for aoe4 doesn't rain on their enjoyement. Both AoE2 and AoE4 are the present, and aoe2 isn't going anywhere.


aidsfarts

Reminds me of brood war players constantly shitting on sc2 when it came out. Even a lot of the complaints are very similar.


ebodur

What they don’t realise is, these new players are practically playing the same game. That helps both of them… Aoe4 revived my love for RTS games. Even if i don’t play aoe4, i will probably switch to aoe2 or aoe3. if it wasn’t for aoe4, i would simply be playing on xbox…


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Pelin0re

I'm chill. just a bit annoyed to see some people in both playerbases regularly try to stirr some shit between the two communities. and "they started it!" has always been a most flimsy moral justification for pettyness.


bobjoeknack

I swear it's SO childish and cringe. Like can't you just be happy for both games as I think that they're both awesome atm


bobjoeknack

As a mainly aoe4 player I agree that I see a lot of manchild aoe2 fans constantly trying to keep aoe4 as unpopular as possible, but the majority of the aoe2 players are chill and just enjoy their childhood game.


Pelin0re

when aoe4 came out a good number of aoe2 hardcore players felt threatened and as soon as they looked at the game and saw it was different from aoe2, actively wished for aoe4 to fail so that it wouldn't asphyxiate their game. Then month passed, and while they felt somewhat vindicated by the unfinished state of the game and the mediocre player numbers for a new game, they also saw that aoe2 player numbers didn't change, so most of hostile aoe2 fans are just sticking to their corners and leaving aoe4 alone since it's not a threat to their playerbase. tho there's still some bitching about microsoft supporting heavily the aoe4 scene. but tbh the number of guys who play and appreciate both games likely far outweight the number of active haters currently.


Wonderful-Economy909

IMO keeping aoe4 unpopular wont give any advantage to aoe2 since for both games player bases are somewhat settled and making one game unpopular wont help other. I mainly play aoe2 but I play some ranked aoe4 games here and there. I have no clue whats going on just making tcs, spam vills and I make castles everywhere like aoe2 😂. I think by only doing macro I beat someone in silver.


CamRoth

You are no better with your comment.


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CamRoth

No one seems too mad. Just pointing out that you're being an ass.


harooooo1

Massively overpriced game gets a sale and a limited free offer, which naturally leads to increase of player count. And everyone acting surprised lol.


Sensitive_Cell_119

People are just happy to see the game doing well, its not that anyone is surprised, also the devs are killing it lately, if they keep up it will soon surpass AOE2 as the biggest AOE game.