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We’re hosting a 700$ cash price tournament on Saturday and Sunday 16GMT, which we will be live streaming on http://twitch.tv/zutazuta to get the competitive environment going for Age of Empires Online. We’re planning more tournaments for the future. So if you’re an Age of Empires fan and like PvP (no matter whether you play or just watch), please check it out!
What is Age of Empires Online?
Age of Empires Online is the latest entry of Age of Empires and free to play. While the game has an MMO-like metagame mainly meant for PvE, the core gameplay in PvE quests and PvP matches is pure Age of Empires: Classical base building, four resources, five unique civilizations and more upcoming.
If you left AoEO, or never picked it up, because there was a barrier to getting into the kind of PvP game you wanted to play, you should come back: the barrier is gone. We’ve just introduced a new way to PvP, Champion Mode, that puts all players on equal footing from the moment you make a civilization. There’s no need to get gear or level up in Champion Mode: all in-game techs in the tech tree are unlocked, and gear still makes your units look cool, but it doesn’t affect unit stats. Just hop on a Premium civilization and play, simple as that.
This game is fun. The pacing is fast—it feels more like AoC than AoM or AoE3—and there is a hard counter system that rewards good micro. Also, because we patch the game most months, balance changes will come more frequently than they did for AoE3.
- Milo, Ex-Ensemble Studios Playtester and Age of Empires Online Balance Lead
So despites its MMO style in PvE, the game’s champion mode PvP is what’d you expect from a classical AoE game like Age of Empires II: The Conquerors.
The PvP mode of the game is getting a lot of love from the developers, with a dedicated balancing team and new features, like the new spectator (observer) mode:
Spectator Mode allows 1-3 players observe or "Spectate" 1v1 or 2v2 Arena matches. The Spectator has full access to scouting, build queues, resources, and chat. It is intended to be used by players who are specifically invited to a Party for the purpose of Spectating. As the Spectator, you have an overview of the entire match. You can see all players, their scores, and everything about their resources and what they're building.
So what do we want?
More PvP players. Simple as that. Age of Empires Online wasn’t great when it was released, but we feel that it definitely deserves a second chance. The game has the potential to be a true successor to the former Age games. So please tune in our AoEO All-Starts tournament on Saturday and Sunday 16GMT to check the game out, and give it a chance!
If you have further questions or want to test Champion Mode, ask away here, or ask questions in our Stream chat.
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AOEO just makes me want to play AOE2 and rush Huskarls.
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Samuraiiiiiiii :DDDD
i love the whole aoe genre
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Who is 'we'? Do you represent whoever is supporting this game nowadays?
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My name is OrkTastic and I am a forum moderator and high-level player on AoEO. My friends ZutaZuta and Alexastor are hosting this tournament and I'm guest casting tomorrow and Sunday.
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I really hope i remember to watch this. I've never seen AOEO would love to watch a tourney for some serious competitive play!
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Tried this when it first came out, but stopped playing because it felt pay2win. Which parts do I need to buy to access all the civs in champions mode and how much is it overall?
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Each civ is $10 (900 Empire Points) but you can theoretically pay nothing and build up empire points to purchase a civ.
What I recommend is to test the free versions of each civilization and buy the one you feel is more your style. Once you purchase a civ, you can gain access to ranked champion mode instantly and you can play to unlock the other civs with no additional monetary cost.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/105430/
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I really don't like AOEO. I still can't stop playing AOE3. It is probably the post underrated rts game ever. The factions were very unique, the gameplay was awesome and the shipment thing was very creative and new in rts
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If you left AoEO, or never picked it up, because there was a barrier to getting into the kind of PvP game you wanted to play, you should come back: the barrier is gone. We’ve just introduced a new way to PvP, Champion Mode, that puts all players on equal footing from the moment you make a civilization. There’s no need to get gear or level up in Champion Mode: all in-game techs in the tech tree are unlocked, and gear still makes your units look cool, but it doesn’t affect unit stats. Just hop on a Premium civilization and play, simple as that.
That's all fine and dandy and probably addresses the issues that prevented me from caring about this game, but allow me to ask this: Why should I choose Age of Empires Online over any of the old games? What does it do better than them? I'm genuinely curious as to what this could be, honestly. So if you could expand a bit on that, it would be much appreciated and I would probably tune in. ^^
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I'll tune in for this as I've never seen an AoEO game outside of some YouTube clips. I'll probably just wish I was watching Age of Mythology, though. 
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On September 16 2012 01:27 Aylear wrote:I'll tune in for this as I've never seen an AoEO game outside of some YouTube clips. I'll probably just wish I was watching Age of Mythology, though.
That game was so overlooked compared to how amazing it was. ;_;
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On September 16 2012 01:31 MasterOfPuppets wrote:Show nested quote +On September 16 2012 01:27 Aylear wrote:I'll tune in for this as I've never seen an AoEO game outside of some YouTube clips. I'll probably just wish I was watching Age of Mythology, though. That game was so overlooked compared to how amazing it was. ;_;
It really was. It's still my favorite game in the Age series, which is a really freaking tall order.
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That's all fine and dandy and probably addresses the issues that prevented me from caring about this game, but allow me to ask this: Why should I choose Age of Empires Online over any of the old games? What does it do better than them?
I think Aoeo offers something new and fresh compared to the old games. Its like SC2 vs Brood War, BW was maybe the better game but after a while you want some new possibilities.
This game is developping really quickly, community is growing and still new civs are created plus there are frequent balance patches. If you like gameplay of the old aoe games you definitely like this.
Most of all its free to play so really easy to download and try out to see if you like it.
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