Profile of Inverse

Carpiquet, right. God what a terrible fucking map.

Red Ball's the only really good CoH1 map left I think. Duclair was kinda a campfest, but there's no Brits in CoH2 so maybe it'll be better. The rest of the 1v1 maps were kinda meh, though it would be cool to get Argentan or OnkelSam's last 1v1 map.

Nah, it's called having common sense. People like having balanced matches; they also don't like to wait. Even matches and short queue times are opposite ends of a spectrum that must be balanced by the developer. Ultimately, as a developer you have to choose between sacrificing better balance for shorter wait times, or sacrificing shorter wait times for better balance, because the ideal short wait times with perfectly balanced matches is almost impossible to attain, especially for a tiny game like CoH2.

Valve is lucky because Dota has so many players that the vast majority of matches can be statistically balanced. Even then, whenever they've been forced to, they've erred on the side of sacrificing balance in favour of maintaining their ideal queue times (which seems to be around 2:30). Relic doesn't have the luxury of a large player base to draw from, so they have tougher decisions to make. Still, their decision to favour shorter queue times over more balanced matches is in line with the practices of one of the largest multiplayer developers today.

If the developers of one of the most popular multiplayer games today are actively taking steps to prevent queue times from growing an unreasonable amount, it's perfectly logical for Relic to do the same.

What evidence do you have? Other then guessing and assumption...

I don´t think any company will give their statistic data about pvp-population in relation to matchmaking and wait-times, maybe you have more luck with that...

I have the fact that Valve, in spite of their massive player base, actively worked to prevent segmentation of their matchmaking queues in much the same way that Relic is doing right now. That suggests very strongly that they feel shorter queue times are more important than more balanced matches, since their actions explicitly sacrificed balanced matches for less waiting. That right there is evidence that the developers of one of the largest multiplayer games around believe shorter queue times are most important when it comes to maintaining the health of the game.

Again, that has literally nothing to do with it. Why would files sitting on your hard drive affect how the game itself runs? Those files aren't doing anything, they aren't being loaded, they're just sitting there. They shouldn't affect anything because they're not doing anything, and if they do affect something, it's because there's some seriously fucked up code running that's accessing those files or the directory in an extremely inefficient way. Again, that shouldn't be expected.

The only thing the game is doing with that directory is writing a temporary replay file. If writing that file with a large volume of other files in the directory is causing a noticeable reduction in performance, somebody at Relic made a pretty basic mistake. Something like that should never, ever, ever affect performance.