Ensemble... :(

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, as I said, I think AoEII was their best game... and even there, though it was great, it was nowhere near the leap up of, say, one Blizzard game to the next. It was a comparatively small improvement. Still, the first two AoE games were great RTSes, so I'm sad to see them go... even if AoE I annoyed me immensely by having triremes fight eachother by shooting giant catapult or ballista bolts at eachother. So ridiculously unhistorical... trireme fights were mostly fought with ramming, not archery. I know that would be harder to model, but it'd have been worth it I think... oh well.

(And why can't you do things like put troops on walls? It's such an obvious feature the games should have had!)

But anyway, good games. Hopefully this new studio can be as good.

Apparently Microsoft wants to take up EA's old mantle. :/

Every studio does this kind of thing on and off... they all have. Activision, Ubisoft, Midway, EA, Microsoft, etc, etc... all of them.