

GPL, LGPL, Apache License, MIT License, Boost License, Vim License and so on). There are several free licenses which handle these cases in a different way (e.g. Run it, fork it, modify it, sell it, give it away to your friends (or to anyone), you can do anything. download it from author's web page).Ģ) free as in "freedom" (free software) - you can do literally anything with this kind of software because it's licensed in a way that doesn't restrict the user in any manner (i.e. Sometimes you are forbidden to copy it and give it to a friend (because you both should e.g. Usually it's already compiled so you don't have an access to the source code. I have got no idea about the userbase size though.ġ) free as in "gratis" (freeware software) - you can download it for free, install it and use it.

I don't know a lot about it but the rumours are they largely play standard (non-userpatch) aoc or the forgotten empires. Since I'm talking about platforms it wouldn't be fair not to mention game ranger. During steam sales however the hd edition does get an influx of new players every time (you can usually pick it up for $5). Typically steam is where you'll find casual gamers and voobly is where slightly more experienced players go (although they do have a new player lobby with casual gamers too). Unfortunately there were performance problems on the release of aoehd, pretty much up until 1-2 months ago, leaving the community fragmented. You can check the player history for steam here, it's almost at an all time low, although this number includes people logged in playing single player too, while voobly's numbers (just over 1500 at the time of writing) include people spectating matches and waiting in lobbies or idling.

Sorry I meant for online matches, although some people would draw a distinction between age of empires: the conquerors and age of empires: hd edition.
