Community Growth and Changes (map pools/ranked ladder)

[Leshanni]

Thank you all for the replies, I feel like I’m learning loads.

The issue I’m trying to wrap my head around right now is that given that matchmaking is new to aoe2 and doesn’t provide the same experience as the whole infrastructure of Voobly, is it really possible for it to do the same job? And if not, why are we trying to force it to do that, instead of trying to get the community infrastructure that fostered so many different communities? See this post from T-West.

A simple question about Voobly

I think it’s selling Voobly short to say it just had ranked lobbies. There was a huge infrastructure built up around this lobby system to help people find games. You could see which games your friends or clan members were playing then jump in to spectate them. Lobbies persisted between games, so you could easily have a rematch after finding someone who wanted to play the same settings. And it was easier to spectate tournament games, since you didn’t need to hunt down the players between each mat…

Now clearly some have pointed out that Voobly was not perfect, so perhaps we could think about how to take the best bits of Voobly and solve some of the issues?

Also for the record, I’m not suggesting that we scrap matchmaking and go solely to ranked lobbies etc, I just think they’re different and both useful for different contexts.

Out of interest how many of you that are replying played on Voobly and how many didn’t? @TheBiz1 @RobotRoom @SouMexican @WoodsierCorn696 @Geojak92 @UnfamousScout @TheConqueror753 @chimpanvi