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it is 100% a developer problem they're the ones who refused to put a random civ queue. they're the ones who shoved position-pick into the game. they're the ones who decided to reveal the map so that everyone has perfect information for picking the civ they claim that civs are balanced because...

every single map with wood on the outer edge and empty space in the middle has been trash crater, socotra, arena, african clearing, DE's edit of ghost lake, steppe, wolf hill they aren't random. they aren't interesting. they aren't strategic. the battleground is always the same but they're...

they should move arena/BF to empire wars start those are the maps where you don't explore. dark + feudal is useless but they are clogging up the RM queue for no reason, making everyone waste 20 minutes booming and then having the game end immediately after because the teams weren't fair

aoe2 will have more players for singleplayer don't know about multiplayer the starcraft / warcraft players will move on once a good new RTS comes out, but i don't think that will happen within 1 year

halo's a different situation. that game generates lots of traffic and cross-sells so many things halo gets a new game every year or every two years. there are lots of microtransactions (most multiplayer game revenue is mtx now, even for pay-to-play games). and it leads to xbox live...

spectatorZone shocked to find out that game developers prioritize advertising a new $60 game with future DLCs instead of a $15 game that everyone who is watching it would have already purchased what's the ROI on an aoe2 tournament? some random twitch/youtube people get money. a couple players...

the reason you don't get that many arabia games in TGs is because arabia is one of the the most-banned TG maps can't even blame people for banning it tbh. the average player's experience is getting 1v2'd against smurfs on voicechat and then the game being over a couple minutes into feudal age...

we don't know how much of the multitasking / awareness / quick-reacting can be trained. you don't need to be amazing at it (2K provides some room for mistakes), but i would guess that half the people aren't fast enough for even that but if you want ammo for "everyone can reach 2K", i have a...

some anti-dodging reform was 100% needed for teamgames. the game was unplayable when one ***** could get paired with the same players 10 times in a row and dodge 10 times in a row, wasting 7 other people's time 10 times in a row 1v1/TG uses the same logic because the game is mismanaged, and...

aoe4's novel additions are mostly bad/unnecessary. fortunately, they are also not a huge part of the gameplay most of the advancement is just copied from post-aoe2 ensemble games, which they carried over into aoe4. there are probably some starcraft influences too it's a lot of simple things...

aoe4 is essentially a beta game. basically everyone who wanted to play more than campaigns and who wasn't a streamer told them to delay it. they did not listen. still, the game got good enough reception/sales/attention from what i can tell (from a product success perspective). it's not a...

are you new? year of position-pick is the worst year of aoe2 history

what perfect investment? every army has the same economy upgrades and booming make xbows? get wood ups + collar + wheel + gold mining + TCs + farms make knights? get wood ups + collar + wheel + gold mining + TCs + farms make infantry? get wood ups + collar + wheel + TCs + farms + prepare your...

if you play against good players, you only get to make army with your spare resources. on farmville aoe2 maps, we have no spare resources until it's time to start looking at imperial age. the xbow players can make some cheap **** because that unit and its upgrades are undercosted, but nobody can...