You would expect them to try a bit harder with these re-releases, in hopes of hyping up aoe4, of which to my knowledge we still no nothing.
I expect a re-release like this to
- Not introduce new bugs (from what I hear so far, not the case yet)
- Run well on modern computers and resolutions
- Fix bugs that were never really addressed in the original
- Make some improvements to meet more modern standards in terms of UI and convenience things (they did do a bit of that)
- Be able to run on every pc, on whatever platform you want (only running on windows 10 and through the terrible windows store is a massive violation of that principle. Unless they release through GOG/Steam as well in near future and allow windows 7 support as well.)
- Have at least the same degree of modding oppurtunity as the original and even better if they learned from bethesda and CDPR and just released some official tools. (once again, windows store ruins it)
If I'm honest, I wasn't expecting much from DE, but I was at least somewhat interested in AoE4, this isn't helping that in the slightest. And I think it is mostly microsoft ruining it. They never understood or cared for pc gaming. They kept their highest profile game, Halo, away from pc, going as far as releasing the first 2 on pc, the 2nd ending on a cliffhanger and then making the 3rd xbox exclusive. They messed up big time with games for windows live and even more with how they terminated it. And now they somehow want to push windows store. Not much of a welcome back to pc gamers from microsoft.