Dear fellow gamers,
It's already 5 years that I have been playing AOE2 and I enjoy the game a lot. As a big fun of this game I really feel sad about how unprofessional the devs of aoe2 are. I don't want to talk about pathing issues that they can not fix for years or other small problems such as mods/hotkey getting destroyed every time after a new patch. Instead I want to discuss with you 1 very important topic that completely ruins my game experience: The queueing system.
As a person who works I don't have hundreds of hours free to spend on gaming. But when I do have some free time and want to enjoy this amazing game after my work I always get maps that i dont enjoy at all. I am an arabia enjoyer currently fluctuating around 18xx-19xx elo. The problems that I see with the current system are
1-As a person who doesn't have a lot of free time I don't want to spend my time on something I don't enjoy, and the maps other than arabia I don't enjoy at all. But please don't suggest me to find games in the lobby cuz it is not as entertaining and motivating as ladder games (and the opponents are also much less competitive).
2-As a 18xx-19xx elo player why do I have to play on the maps that have been chosen by "low elo legends". Don't mean to be offensive but lower elo players or noobs tend to prefer more closed maps and thats the reason we see so many closed maps and so little open maps in the map pool and it is really annoying to me.
3-And the 3rd and most important thing that I hope we can discuss here is Why can't these "super professional" devs just give us unlimited bans so that everyone can play what they enjoy. If you prefer arena its fine for you, ban all other maps, if you prefer arabia then ban all other maps except arabia. This seems to me as a perfect solution rather than forcing people to play something that they don't enjoy. Please don't bring arguments like "the player base is too small etc etc". If someone wants to play an unpopular map, then he will have to wait until someone else also wants to play that unpopular map. This seems much more fair to me than forcing people to waste their time and energy on unpleasant things. If you banned all maps except 1 then your queue time will be higher than someone who has 0 bans, very simple, very fair and very enjoyable for everyone.
Please share your thoughts on this matter cuz its extremely important. As much as I enjoy playing this game I am unable to play any games lately with this garbage map pools.
Thanks in advance
It's already 5 years that I have been playing AOE2 and I enjoy the game a lot. As a big fun of this game I really feel sad about how unprofessional the devs of aoe2 are. I don't want to talk about pathing issues that they can not fix for years or other small problems such as mods/hotkey getting destroyed every time after a new patch. Instead I want to discuss with you 1 very important topic that completely ruins my game experience: The queueing system.
As a person who works I don't have hundreds of hours free to spend on gaming. But when I do have some free time and want to enjoy this amazing game after my work I always get maps that i dont enjoy at all. I am an arabia enjoyer currently fluctuating around 18xx-19xx elo. The problems that I see with the current system are
1-As a person who doesn't have a lot of free time I don't want to spend my time on something I don't enjoy, and the maps other than arabia I don't enjoy at all. But please don't suggest me to find games in the lobby cuz it is not as entertaining and motivating as ladder games (and the opponents are also much less competitive).
2-As a 18xx-19xx elo player why do I have to play on the maps that have been chosen by "low elo legends". Don't mean to be offensive but lower elo players or noobs tend to prefer more closed maps and thats the reason we see so many closed maps and so little open maps in the map pool and it is really annoying to me.
3-And the 3rd and most important thing that I hope we can discuss here is Why can't these "super professional" devs just give us unlimited bans so that everyone can play what they enjoy. If you prefer arena its fine for you, ban all other maps, if you prefer arabia then ban all other maps except arabia. This seems to me as a perfect solution rather than forcing people to play something that they don't enjoy. Please don't bring arguments like "the player base is too small etc etc". If someone wants to play an unpopular map, then he will have to wait until someone else also wants to play that unpopular map. This seems much more fair to me than forcing people to waste their time and energy on unpleasant things. If you banned all maps except 1 then your queue time will be higher than someone who has 0 bans, very simple, very fair and very enjoyable for everyone.
Please share your thoughts on this matter cuz its extremely important. As much as I enjoy playing this game I am unable to play any games lately with this garbage map pools.
Thanks in advance