Also worth mentioning we potentially lost pinztec guy as a sponsor, and seems like fewer and fewer people will want to sponsor new aoe2 events. aoe2 lost a lot of marketing space with aoe4 and declining viewers, mainly due to the fact that both viper and t90 left twitch, and the biggest streamers are streaming mostly aoe4.
So, while 2021 might have been good overall by itself for aoe2, it's laid the foundations for a TERRIBLE 2022, potentially the worst year ever, for the game. Not optimistic at all. Hope I'll be proven wrong.