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Jump back to quoted post22 Apr 2019, 23:32 PMAndy_RE

Hi all,

We're sorry to hear that people are still having this issue. We are aware of the situation, and will be looking into it in more detail.

Our web team has already made some investigations into the problem, and found no reasons why this should be happening from our end (ie no server changes, netcode changes etc).

We will be looking into this further, but there is the realistic possibility that this is actually a provider, infrastructure, or other such issue, especially given that this is affecting a small, and seemingly random subsection of our users from Germany and Poland.

Either way, this appears to be a complex and edge case issue. Investigating and implementing a fix (if this is indeed Relic side) will take some time unfortunately.

I'll update you here once we have concluded that work.

Thanks all,

Andy

Jump back to quoted post16 Apr 2019, 09:30 AMTiger Baron

The lines are already blurred because the "unique" route didn't work out so well 3 years ago.

Why do you think so many people like and keep playing AoE when most of it's nations are around 80-90% similar?

Jump back to quoted post7 Apr 2019, 12:00 PMRosbone

Steam has some great benefits. Linking to Friends, game library, etc are all great. I am a huge fan. But you give away a lot of rights for these benefits. And that is the future. People giving up rights to get the shiny new thing. See South Park The Entity episode for reference.

The major problems of digital distribution vs CD/DVD:
- You need internet to play/install. Sometimes that is a problem.
- Steam could close its servers any minute. Goodbye to your $1000's of games. Microsoft has already done this with music, so COH3 on MS store is a big risk. Xbox has made this much more stable of a platform.
- Being forced to update games just to play them. Maybe a new patch breaks everything. Maybe you dont have access to inet to download 57 GB of garbage every week like new dance moves or pink boots.
- You have to have some sketchy client running on your PC doing who knows what all day long. PCs are tools. They can be used to do a lot things. Between Win10 auto update, client apps doing shit, etc YOU are no longer in control of YOUR PC (that YOU paid for). How about if your car just auto updates itself into oblivion while your out on the road?

Back in the day I would order a new PC for work and as soon as it came in drop Quake onto it to run Timedemos and get FPS numbers. Cant do that with Steam using works inet. My boss who was near retirement would go "How did it do? That good huh? Order another one."