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    Age of Empires Online

    Game » consists of 1 releases. Released Aug 16, 2011

    One of the best-selling real time strategy franchises returns with Age of Empires Online, Microsoft's first title to utilize a free-to-play model. The game is no longer playable, as its servers were shut down in July 2014.

    Well, how to start this game

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    #1  Edited By Wuddel

    Installed it. All I got is a "starter" that says. "The game is already running." And a grayed out "Play" button. ???

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    #2  Edited By intoblivion
    @Wuddel: I believe it should be patching, if not you might have somthing wrong with your internet connection, firewalls etc not letting it through 
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    #3  Edited By Halz
    @Wuddel: I had the same problem and just reinstalled the game and put the game in another folder than the program files (x86) folder and then it worked. Hope this helps.
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    #4  Edited By phrosen
    @Wuddel: I have had the same problem, but it plays fine when i run it as admin.
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    #5  Edited By BrittonPeele

    For me, it sits for a minute on that screen (grayed out "Play" button and text telling me the game has launched), but it eventually loads up. If you have a really crappy computer it might be getting stuck there, but it's probably something else.

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    #6  Edited By DeeGee

    @Wuddel: @Sargus:Both problems come from Games for Windows Live starting up.

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    #7  Edited By deskp

    For me it stays like that for maybe 30seconds tops then the game starts just fine.

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    #8  Edited By RafaelMei

    A friend of mine was having some trouble with the launcher, turns out he wasn't executing it as an admin. After he did so it worked perfectly.

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