The ones who had played the demo before were very skeptical if and how the game could be any fun. But to our surprise Age III really rocks! It's challenging, fast, versatile and has a dense atmosphere. Sure the gameplay isn't perfect yet and it's quite obvious that we will see some balancing tweaks over the time. But man had we fun!
So far so good. Unfortunately as good as the gameplay is as bad is the management functionality around it. Here's our unsorted list of the biggest annoyances:
1. 8 players max. Come on?
2. No Co-op. Man, we just can't *always* have even teams! And adding a NPC to balance teams is really worthless.
3. Nicknames have to be set in Help & Options. The MP game's nickname is ignored.
4. Limited Home City management. If I want to bring my HC from home I have to copy the sp_blabla.xml file manually.
5. No player profiles. Together with 4. that really sucks.
6. No map size setting.
To be honest we believe that when it comes to MP games ES really focussed a little too much on ESO. We really hope that we'll see some improvements in the MP area in the near future.