Age of Empires® III (2007) - Age of Empires III: (2007) - Multiplayer services ending October 30 - Steam News
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From today, Age of Empires III (2007) will no longer be available for purchase. After many years of support, we will be retiring the title from sale. Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition will continue to be supported. In addition, on October 30, 2024 at 10am PT multiplayer services for the game will cease to run. This is due to the technology no longer being supported. If you own the game, you will still be able to play campaign and skirmish content.
  • ryathalEnglish
    142·
    1 month ago

    AOE 3 is still a superior game to 4, which is largely a regression for the genre.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 month ago

      Which is pretty funny because I distinctly remember AOE 3 being seen as a regression from 2.

      I do remember liking the home city mechanics. Almost a roguelike in that you could improve your games over time out of band

      • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        I honestly prefer AoE 1, though I like both 1 & 2. Everything past 2 feels wrong.

      • ryathalEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        I think the home city shipments, training on blocks of 5, and no resource drop-off were vast improvements.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Good reminder I wanted to try out AoE3 Definitive on my Steam Deck, so I finally did. Plays great. I borrowed a community layout but tweaked the controls a bunch.

    • sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Huh, it seems like that kind of game would be terrible on a controller. How does the game feel to play?

      • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        It was fine. I even played the new Age of Mythology on Steam Deck as well before a patch broke it. I’ve played a few other RTS’s as well.

        I only play single player and I’m more of an economic slow player, and I was doing it for simple skirmishes or campaign missions. Of course with harder difficulties, more enemies, a larger map, or even multi-player I doubt it’d be practival.

        But with some control tweaks on the Steam side, I can play a decent single player RTS game effectively.

        If things get hectic, I save and go to my desktop. That didn’t happen in AoE3 yet though.