Microsoft has to fix/provide features that are crucial to an online multiplayer game and the community needs to be more demanding to get this done!

It's bizarre that a popular game like AOE still lacks fundamental features that are critical to an online multiplayer game, especially given the recent influx of people towards it and it getting better spotlight. Microsoft has to immediately do something so that it doesn't lose out on this player base, so what are these features that are absent for which I'm ranting here:

1. Reconnect: It's horrifying to play an online game without a reconnect feature, this means that every-time someone leaves you either have to continue playing without them ( which is super shitty if you are playing with a group of friends) or you are forced to remake the lobby again and start which is a huge pain and waste of time. The save and reload feature which is also super confusing and painful to use is simply not good enough. It's 2020 and every other online game has it and there is no reason for AOE to not have it.
2. Spectating: No clue why it is so hard for me to spectate a friends game and/or a lobby, they either have to stream or I have to be really good at filtering and finding lobbies to spectate those games now. Why can't there be a way to just view the games in which my friends are in? Why do I have to search and find them in an ocean of games?
3. Better servers: The game crashes 3/5 times due to lags and server kicks. Microsoft is not a small Indie company to have such poor infrastructure ( given how a small indie company like Valve is doing a much better job). These lags and kicks are super frustrating and demoralises the player base.
4. Bugs and fixes: These were promised to be fixed long ago and are still existent, melee unit pathing is still dogshit, path finding isn't optimised and numerous bugs. While they may not be able to fix everything they need to fix the crucial ones atleast, it's about time they did.

I have recently started playing this game with my friends and we all really enjoy the game and want to play more of it, but it's things like this that's making it hard for us to enjoy the game and stay with it. And I believe the game in and of itself is getting huge traction in the recent times and it's Microsofts job that it makes sure that it doesn't lose out on the player base due to things like this which are super basic and fixable.

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And finally I hope this community becomes a bit more vigilant and critical and demands Microsoft for a better player experience.