many new players jump in because the game is cheap af usually so they want to try it, sadly most of rts players are mainly playing vs AI, be it sc or other rts, and when they get to play multiplayer and realise that it's a completly different gameplay, they preffer to go back to AI or leave the game for any other that gives out instant gratification. Multiplayer is long and tedious process of learning, i've been discouraged by premade smurfs quite a few times but i still play because once in a while you get this ballanced nice game where you are proud to write gg wether you win or not, howwever it's worth to note that players often will get into one sided games, which are not really fun for either of the teams, because where is the fun where the game ends in 18 minutes..... it's an rts not league of legends. It would be nice to perhaps host some low elo tournaments, easily accessible to players and encouraged to take part in by the new guys, it would be a good material for videos as well, just to remind of T90 channel on youtube casting aoe2 games, he has whole series called low elo legends and it sells really well.

many new players jump in because the game is cheap af usually so they want to try it, sadly most of rts players are mainly playing vs AI, be it sc or other rts, and when they get to play multiplayer and realise that it's a completly different gameplay, they preffer to go back to AI or leave the game for any other that gives out instant gratification. Multiplayer is long and tedious process of learning, i've been discouraged by premade smurfs quite a few times but i still play because once in a while you get this ballanced nice game where you are proud to write gg wether you win or not, howwever it's worth to note that players often will get into one sided games, which are not really fun for either of the teams, because where is the fun where the game ends in 18 minutes..... it's an rts not league of legends. It would be nice to perhaps host some low elo tournaments, easily accessible to players and encouraged to take part in by the new guys, it would be a good material for videos as well, just to remind of T90 channel on youtube casting aoe2 games, he has whole series called low elo legends and it sells really well.