Again, aoe2 had much smaller playerbase than aoe4 when large chunk of aoe4 prize pool money was decided. And you keep ignoring the fact aoe4 is a new product so different approach is perfectly natural and trying to apply same standards to both titles is outright wrong thing to do.aoe2 having 2.5-3x players and only getting 65% of prizepool is huge disparity in my view
It's not even a matter of subjectiveness, you just keep presenting data in deceitful manner. I'm not "justifying" stuff to myself, I'm explaining to you why things are the way they are. You are behaving as if you have never encountered new product being released and marketed.