20 + years.
Microsoft; billion dollar company.
Have essentially made another Red Alert 3, cartoony lazy garbage.
No improvements, worse graphics, music, aging and less engaging fights, upgrades etc.
Pathing issues as bad as AOE 1. Commanding large armies is laughably unrealistic, with utterly pointless formation options.
Stick to AOE 2, 3 and mythology, far far better games. Didnt take 20 years to come out either.