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Wait, you pause that often and somehow they're the douche? Pretty ironic bro. I think when the AoE2 community was smaller and people more or less knew each other pausing games weren't that big of a deal, but now that the game has grown so much with tens of thousands playing daily, expecting random strangers to wait for you is just naive. Like others here suggest, if it's an emergency, why does potentially losing a game bother you so much? How many of these emergencies do you have? I think it's upon you to consider when you can and cannot play if you so often have important reoccurring events in your life that you need to take care of. Don't waste peoples' time. Imagine playing a 4v4, forcing 7 people to wait for you, that makes You the douche, hence why people pausing usually write sorry when they return or just play on if un-paused, and not write ''OMG TOXIC PLAYERS UNPAUSING!!1!'' on zone or reddit.when you put it that way, I can see comparatively how its a better situation than other games. But the problem arises when there is no way to avoid douches like them. Like one time I have had to resign 3-4 games in one session because I kept matching one player. Its DE's matchmaking system which I wish to have that feature where we can prevent matching certain players. And in a game like age which is cut throat, if someone is AFK and they unpause its insta gg in most cases.