Saw a change in the title -> Age of Empires II (Retired). What does "Retired" mean? Is the game going to be removed from sale or something? I didn't find anything about it...

So I had a problem starting AoEII in windows 11. Launcher started fine but when pressed play nothing happened. What apparently happened is that there where no dx9 win 32 redistributables. Thing is that those dlls are provided with installer just copy D3D9_DLLBACKUP folder stuff in Age2HD folder and everything worked...

I have AoE2 Gold Edition on CD but it no longer works on my Windows 10 rig. 20 bucks seems a little bit to much for the core game without the DLCs. So why is there no sale anymore? They should make this version available for free to everyone who purchased the definitive version. Damn Microsoft you are so greedy!...

is it bcuz of the workshop?

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