It's cool if you're in it for SP. Good luck playing this if you're hoping for an active MP community, Windows Store is cancer that many PC gamers just don't want to put up with. They're REALLY shooting themselves in the foot not releasing this onto Steam.
If it was released onto steam, it'd just be front-loader for the Windows Store like what Ubisoft is doing with Uplay anyway. If you added it onto steam as a 'non-steam game' you'd get exactly what they would've delivered if it released on Steam.
Besides which, even if we'd presume that MS got their act together, the MP of AoE1 would still be very, very small. MP balance was not AoE1's forte, and I don't think any amount of re-balancing patches will save it. Plus it seems from a glance they didn't bother putting the QoL stuff from AoE2 in, like gates and auto-farms, which will drive most new players away.
Not a boycott, I just have no reason to go to the MS store, so I won't see it when I'm in a buying mood. Besides, there's still so much I haven't done in AoE2 yet, so there's no hurry.
Fair enough, it's just that people who post that typically come at it from a "I'm boycotting this game until Windows Store is dead" angle, which is just so unlikely to happen.