I have a few Words to say about my personal experience about the last 2 months regarding AoE. I'm sorry if you find it offensive and feel free to discuss With me about some of the Points I bring out in this post. (Sorry for some random Capital letters here and there, autocorrect has taken over).
I'm gonna jump straight on it... Lately I have never been this unmotivated to keep playing. As many of you know I have been one extremely active for years, but now, I really reached the bottom of the occean. The main reason I'm obviously going to point out is the release of DE. The release of DE brought a great number of New players seeking nostalgia and fun in a game many People are familiar with, great! It's been awesome to see so many New enthusiastic players and Viewers popping up out of nowhere. What is not to great is the way DE has changed almost everything I used to love about AoE. Here is some of it:
- The first weeks I was "forced" to play insanely boring maps, such as rivers, highlands, unbalanced potato maps such as Coastal and conti that had no pre-fix to it what so ever. It seems like the map pool Choice was not very well thought through and very rushed. I know theres a New patch and all now, but from what I can see, maps are still terribly unbalanced and having issues, but good thing they changed it a little! However. There were so many days where I just didn't want to play at all, the only thing that kept me going was the stream and thats probably the only thing that will keep me going at this point.
- I used to play teamgames With my teammates, have fun, trashtalk on ts/lobbies, laugh and actually had a great time. I haven't had one of these moments on DE. Infact, I haven't been on teamspeak With any of them ever since the release. Right now the top scene is purely based on 1v1 and "CAN I REACH 2K FIRST!?!?!" sort of thing. The game just simply does not provide any good matchmaking for teamgames, it also has one of the Worst prefomances ive ever experienced when it comes to fps. T-r-a-g-i-c.
- After ending each game you have no option, but to sit and wait for 4-7 minutes before actually finding a New game, I do appreciate a break after a long game, but if you add up all these minutes its gonna be pretty damn long time. Most of the time its With the exact same player even when he queued near the same Seconds as you did, like seriously…?
- No save and exit option or restore. Was this never thought of or what?
- Pathing is making some units useless compared what they once were. I used to love playing scouts, Knights, but the way they act and move on DE feels so unnatural and terrible. You basicly lose fights you never would have lost on voobly.
- Drops and crashes. Ive read several complaints about People With crash issues and I happen to be ons of the random unfortunate aswell. What is my only fix? Buy a VPN. Ok so People really have to pay for VPN and the game to actually be able to play? F*** off. Its a disgrace.
There are several more Things I dislike, I do like Things too, but why play a unfinished game when you have a platform that Works a lot better?
I think the answer lays in amount of Viewers streamers are getting out of this game at this point. I was overwhelmed With how many People I had watching me play DE.I was controlled by an Outer motivation in first stage, while my innver motivation just kept decreasing, sadly because of all these issues mentioned above. In the end I've realised the Outer motivation is far less powerful than the other. The joy for the game being gone simply doesnt add up to making more profit. I don't know how long I can keep going, but I will be back in january trying to get back into it and adapt, I gotta look at it as a job that I dislike instead of a hobby. I'm again sorry if some of you simply love DE, but for me this has been a nightmare.
Cu soon.
I'm gonna jump straight on it... Lately I have never been this unmotivated to keep playing. As many of you know I have been one extremely active for years, but now, I really reached the bottom of the occean. The main reason I'm obviously going to point out is the release of DE. The release of DE brought a great number of New players seeking nostalgia and fun in a game many People are familiar with, great! It's been awesome to see so many New enthusiastic players and Viewers popping up out of nowhere. What is not to great is the way DE has changed almost everything I used to love about AoE. Here is some of it:
- The first weeks I was "forced" to play insanely boring maps, such as rivers, highlands, unbalanced potato maps such as Coastal and conti that had no pre-fix to it what so ever. It seems like the map pool Choice was not very well thought through and very rushed. I know theres a New patch and all now, but from what I can see, maps are still terribly unbalanced and having issues, but good thing they changed it a little! However. There were so many days where I just didn't want to play at all, the only thing that kept me going was the stream and thats probably the only thing that will keep me going at this point.
- I used to play teamgames With my teammates, have fun, trashtalk on ts/lobbies, laugh and actually had a great time. I haven't had one of these moments on DE. Infact, I haven't been on teamspeak With any of them ever since the release. Right now the top scene is purely based on 1v1 and "CAN I REACH 2K FIRST!?!?!" sort of thing. The game just simply does not provide any good matchmaking for teamgames, it also has one of the Worst prefomances ive ever experienced when it comes to fps. T-r-a-g-i-c.
- After ending each game you have no option, but to sit and wait for 4-7 minutes before actually finding a New game, I do appreciate a break after a long game, but if you add up all these minutes its gonna be pretty damn long time. Most of the time its With the exact same player even when he queued near the same Seconds as you did, like seriously…?
- No save and exit option or restore. Was this never thought of or what?
- Pathing is making some units useless compared what they once were. I used to love playing scouts, Knights, but the way they act and move on DE feels so unnatural and terrible. You basicly lose fights you never would have lost on voobly.
- Drops and crashes. Ive read several complaints about People With crash issues and I happen to be ons of the random unfortunate aswell. What is my only fix? Buy a VPN. Ok so People really have to pay for VPN and the game to actually be able to play? F*** off. Its a disgrace.
There are several more Things I dislike, I do like Things too, but why play a unfinished game when you have a platform that Works a lot better?
I think the answer lays in amount of Viewers streamers are getting out of this game at this point. I was overwhelmed With how many People I had watching me play DE.I was controlled by an Outer motivation in first stage, while my innver motivation just kept decreasing, sadly because of all these issues mentioned above. In the end I've realised the Outer motivation is far less powerful than the other. The joy for the game being gone simply doesnt add up to making more profit. I don't know how long I can keep going, but I will be back in january trying to get back into it and adapt, I gotta look at it as a job that I dislike instead of a hobby. I'm again sorry if some of you simply love DE, but for me this has been a nightmare.
Cu soon.