healthy playerbase?

[alcoholicsementhrower]

never played any age of empires game but the pixel art and the combat style makes this game look really interesting but will this game have a healthy multiplayer playerbase , do these type of games get alot of attraction?

[Captain Pentium]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221380/
There's 8,000 players currently playing the previous release of Age of Empires 2. Assuming a large portion of them migrate over here and the new stuff in DE attracts new players then yeah. There should be quite a bit.

[T-West]

^ note those 8,000 people currently playing includes both single player and multiplayer, and there are vastly more SP players than there are MP players.

The two other main places where Aoe2 is played are Voobly and GameRanger. On Voobly there are around 5,000 ranked multiplayer matches played per day. If DE is good, then a decent number of Voobly players will likely play on DE. GameRanger is mostly 4v4 BF without even using the UserPatch, so I doubt players from there will migrate.

[NIKFS]

sort of depends on how many people are fine with paid bugfixes...