MP Losing Appeal

[Puzz3D]

I blame Gamespy. It kicks me out after a few minutes now. I can still play if I get my clan to host and ready up then I join and start ASAP. After we start battle I get the 'Disconnected from Gamespy blah blah.. ' message but that makes no difference, the game runs fine, it's just the getting started.

Gamespy was the same with Stronghold 2 back when I was young and played that. I probably will avoid games that use Gamespy now. If they use that they are obviously very, very cheap games.

The game itself may be contributing to the disconnect. RTW had this same problem in v1.0 and v1.1, but it worked much better after the v1.2 patch. I had no problem staying connected to the MTW/VI lobby and don't even today, but I had terrible problems staying connected to the RTW v1.1 lobby, and they both use GameSpy. Many players, including myself, experienced disconnects in MTW v1.0 until it was patched to v1.1. The disconnect is something CA should definitely look at in the M2TW v1.2 beta and try to improve. CA seems destined to repeat mistakes over and over with every new release which is part of the reason I didn't rush out and buy M2TW.