On a typical evening, I just want to play a lobby game but more than half of the lobbies are treaty…I have scrolled to bottom
the remaining few normal setting games more than half are AI games, senario, occasionally a few FFA, some black forest wood nothing game… almost no playable lobbies. If I open a lobby no one joins. Is this game dead?
So why is there no one playing? I feel that the player number has dropped quite a bit in recent months.
It just depends on when you play. Normally when I play it’s mostly regular supremacy. It just depends on the time of day, sometimes it about half and half and other times mostly treaty.
There aren’t much more team supremacy matches in unranked lobbies and to find a balanced 2v2 or 3v3 in ranked it takes at least 7/8 minutes to find otherwise 10 and most likely the match will be unbalanced. You should play with already established teams with friends. On steam db you can see how many players are leaving and the high end starts to go down. Between the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021 much more balanced teams and more high-level players were easily found.
que raro, yo me meti al steam charts y resulta que no, la base de jugadores no a bajado ha aumentado en consecuencia, mmm creo que sera a la hora que juegas amigo, yo encuentro juegos de supremacia en su mayoria cuando entro
Yep, it’s been two years yet many players are apparently still confused. Perhaps the interface/labeling needs to be improved somehow to make things clearer.
Or perhaps they should change it so lobbies allow ranked games (and proper military ranks to facilitate balanced games). Microsoft needs to accept that that is what players want. It is what they were used to for over a decade and it works better since you can chat before a game (a massive MASSIVE feature you frequently leave out when promoting quick search, as if it weren’t a beloved feature for many MANY players).
The game has a rapidly shrinking player base. At this point, whatever tiny anomalies/imperfections that may be found in rankings due to ranked lobby games is a trivial price to pay for a far greater experience.
Lol from 2020 and early 2021 is not lowered, too bad you do not know how many players are online in multiplayer otherwise you would see a sharp decline because on eso when there were 4000 players you found a game quickly now with 4000 players it takes at least 7 minutes to find a match so there are no 4000 players in multiplayer while on eso when it counted 4000 they were actually 4000.
If you noticed when the free game was launched it boomed after those days the population has remained the same before the boom
The decisions made for AOE3de thats why. They abandoned the entire ESO power rank system along with friends lists/lobbies. Still 100-350 online in TAD at any given time, 100% more fun. (i own de just dont play).
Also on a far lesser note the pathfinding/lag/mini map is worse in DE.
My bad, everybody. I suppose I just assumed that to be the case based on the recent treatment of the game combined with doomer posts.
Of course, the rest of my points still stand. I’ll instead say that whatever tiny anomalies/imperfections that may be found in rankings due to ranked lobby games is a trivial price to pay for a greater experience, considering the stagnating and overall low player base.
