3rd expansion made after a modding team released the Forgotten Empires Expansion and MS hired them to work on the game. This comes after the Forgotten Expansion and the African Kingdoms Expansion and takes up the total civilization count to 31. Also, patch 4.8 for the HD edition just went live. Good time to get back in. Thoughts?

EDIT: links :
steam store page http://store.steampowered.com/app/488060/
Most of the announcements are on the steam page itself, but here's the only other thing they said about it : http://steamcommunity.com/games/221380/announcements/detail/528441854369375523

EDIT 2 : Microsoft is sponsoring a small tournament to publicize the new expansion. Details in this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qoTrn0L9k

How nice that they are working on making expansions for this great game. I have a question: Is it worth to buy the AoE II HD edition? because I allready have the old versions and I taught to buy it from this winter sale and I'm not sure what to do.

AoE II HD Edition is very cool, better graphics, multiplayer and new addons. Sadly not in Gog.

That's kinda neat, but some questions come to mind:

a) Is the Forgotten Empires expansion still going to be available for download for free? (I'm assuming that it was a free mod to begin with.)

b) Is this new expansion only for the HD edition, or is it compatible with the original CD release? (Well, on second thought, I suppose owners of the original release could just download the original version of the mod, if it's still available for download.)

I wish for age of empires 2 with all the new stuff to come here same for age of mythology

a) The original mod is still available for the original CD version and is still free. However, this version is not supported anymore, since they updated it as an official expansion for the HD version. I think the HD version also includes new campaigns not available in the original mod.

b) All new expansions (The Forgotten, African Kingdoms and Rise of the Rajas at the moment) are only for the HD version. The original CD version is no longer supported.

Still no GOG release... Sadly :(

Badass, I actually really liked the Forgotten Empires and African Kingdoms expansions, so I will be getting this.

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See, this is why nobody likes Microsoft.

"Buy"? It's not available to buy. It's only available for rental through a DRM service.

Depends on what you want it for. If its for online MP then stay with the original version and play on Voobly. If you want the new civs and new campaigns, get the Microsoft strategy bundle or Age of Empires bundle on sale. I repeat, DON'T get just Age2HD alone. Get it with other AOE games or other RTS in bundles. The HD patching process is very hap hazardous and most new patches break something in a big way while fixing the previous bugs. I tried the new patch 4.8 and it introduced some new ones. Also, check out this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXg3QQymaU Ninjaed, but

1.Yes. Its up on Voobly as well as here : http://www.forgottenempires.net/fe The Voobly version was updated by someone else after the FE team moved over to work for MS.

2. Only for the HD edition sadly.
Yes, all we can do is always be hopeful for the next patch.

New announcement : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qoTrn0L9k

MS is sponsoring a publicity tournament for it! Details in the video. Been thousands of years before they sponsored an AoE2 tournament. Hopefully the patch coming with the expansion can manage to not break everything. Yes, we should try to push this on them during this time. If they're making a new expansion, its always best to get highest saturation by supporting all platforms.

well great news! Game aged well and decent HD remake so always good to get more content