{"id":7127,"date":"2010-08-17T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"free-to-play-age-of-empire-online-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/7127-free-to-play-age-of-empire-online-announced","title":{"rendered":"Free to play Age of Empire Online announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just last month <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/6657-Age-Empires-developers-busy-with-Project.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;emerged that Robot Entertainment &ndash; ex-Ensemble Studios guys &ndash; was hard at work on an unnamed title known as Project S. Ensemble was responsible for the Age of Empire series.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, Project S was actually Age of Empires Online; a free to play online version of Age of Empires which emphasises a social element, persistent gameplay, quests and levelling up. The early screen-shots are vibrant and cartoony, but the game is still recognisably Age of Empires.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Age of Empires Online will run in Games for Windows Live. There is no mention of whether the free-to-play model will be subsidised by micro-transactions (buying stuff in game), or if it is simply being used as a tool to get more gamers using Microsoft&rsquo;s PC gaming network service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can sign up for the beta over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ageofempiresonline.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">official site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7611-Age-of-Empires-Online-incoming-and-its-free?p=274471#post274471\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Age of Empires Online<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft revealed Age of Empires MMO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}