Age of Empires Mobile: PC Edition

I just don't get it. Why is this even exist on Steam? Why is there a PC port?... It's not bad. Just needed this like a squirrel needs forest fire. Or like a fish needs a bicycle.

I started to play AOEM at the release date. While a great part of the game is good, the aggresive micro transactions system can be totally overwhelming. Despite the devs saying it's a F2P friendly game, there's not really a cap for players to spend. You could spend a million dollars (like a pair of people have) and it won't mean you have the best items in game considering there's gacha systems involved too. There are, of course, upgrade items that can only be bought (there's no way to get items to upgrade rings for the last levels, for example). There's also the constant release of new techonology or upgrade systems, so you can't spend to a good level and keep it because there will be a new system that will require you to spend *again* Now, if this is the case for users that pay for a lot of items, imagine the game scenario for low spenders and F2P users. Even while grinding a lot. It becomes completely unbearable and basically, a game you can't play, because, obviously, you would need to prioritize the strongest or more advanced players for some events. While you can still have fun, I'd say the users interactions with each other are the best part of the game lol

Really enjoy playing.

Enjoyable at start, found constant changing the goal posts and need to spend a lot of money if want to be competitive too much.. Not sure if everyone's experience but we found our server constantly being moved into conflict with older and more powerful servers once the initial internal journey opens up to other servers. Whilst F2P sort of viable for a month or so, it's really a P2W game and you can pay a lot...

Pay-to-Win trap, period.

The PC port is just that, the UI is still tailored for mobile making it clunky and everything is gigantic. It's overwhelming to navigate the menus. P2W is real. It's impossible to ever be competitive if you were to grind this game 24/7 without spending. It's not admirable when it's this heavily P2W. My server was well balanced, new players start off in Season 1 but a server merge happened, and there's players who have been playing for a year longer now with characters I can't unlock at all. How is that fair going from a top 20 arena player to out of the top 150 from one server merge?