rampancy: All of that "dirty SJW stuff" aside...
KiNgBrAdLeY7: For some reason, game room hosts were given administrator powers and free banhammer. As if that wasn't enough, the game room's host CAN DECIDE, which faction YOU must/can/will play as! This is so wankish and it sucks hard! The nerve! I wanted to play as a certain faction and they always CHANGED it! When i insisted to play as the faction i know and like best, they simply kept KICKING me, outside of the game! Well, F@@@ them!
rampancy: Are you serious? Because even though I'm emphatically not an MP guy (especially with regards to online MP), not being able to choose what faction to play is absolutely ridiculous. I can't think of any classic RTS game where you couldn't do that.
And with respect to people kicking you out for not wanting to play by their ridiculous rules...isn't this a server specific thing? Couldn't you just find another server or game to join?
Well, sorry for the foul temper and the short fuse. But this was hilarious, simply something else! You either get for playable faction whatever the ROOM'S HOST wants, or you get the hell kicked out. You cannot decide alliance either, as in the old days you could, but that is simply irrelevant, compared to the above; which renders entire gameplay features and elements completely inaccessible, thusly, since an entire certain faction is present in the expansion only.
I tried to create a game room myself but for some reason, almost no one would join. As in all MP games, you usually join a good, big, full game, not create a nothing game nowhere no one knows and no one gets to join! One or two people joined ultimately, but the game wouldn't run for me. I got the notification other player was in game, while i was stuck indefinitely in the server's client window. I couldn't play altogether by creating my own room and whatever other players' room i join, EVERYONE forbade me from using the factions i knew and played since 2003. I don't like the Allies, dammit, i don't know how or want to learn to play them just for that and i HATE americans and germans (the game factions i refer to, obviously). The game room master would always change forcibly my faction and when i changed it back to the one i wanted, i always got kicked... This is no MP, this is cyber-fascism, god damn. Too much for all this work to give back the MP feature of a good old game; only to have faqturds remove forcibly OTHER features of that game for others, much like game content itself (factions).