Companies don't invest money out of the goodness of their heart - MS expects to get a > $60K return on this investment.
Regardless, what is important is that in the future the actual AoE2 community is playing on the same platform as tournaments are hosted on, irrespective of which platform that is. It's about time we had some continuity and consolidated the player base, which voobly had recently started to do, but hey.
So we'll have to get used to the windows store once AoE2:DE is released with an Escape Gaming event to promote it. Personally I'm fine with that, but a few people probably won't be.
I hope that MS doesn't drop AOE2:DE like it did AoC.
Regardless, what is important is that in the future the actual AoE2 community is playing on the same platform as tournaments are hosted on, irrespective of which platform that is. It's about time we had some continuity and consolidated the player base, which voobly had recently started to do, but hey.
So we'll have to get used to the windows store once AoE2:DE is released with an Escape Gaming event to promote it. Personally I'm fine with that, but a few people probably won't be.
I hope that MS doesn't drop AOE2:DE like it did AoC.