That being said, the Age of Empires team has confirmed that it is actively looking into a number of fan-requested changes to the game that it may look to implement across 2022 and beyond.įor more from Age of Empires 4, make sure to check out this piece detailing the strong start that the game made to life on Steam. Those taking part in the Ranked game mode will also be able to earn a number of exclusive in-game rewards, which the publisher notes will be assigned based upon performance.Īfter this point, the roadmap for the game gets a little hazier, with no timeframe currently being offered for future changes. During the season, players will be able to compete against one another head-to-head in order to climb higher in the rankings. Is it the case though?Īlso could be the case than a significant amount of players tried ranked at its release, got stomped by pros doing placements or whatever, ended up in bronze and now they don't play it, but that page in aoe4world still counts them for distribution (at least for now).In addition to the features above, Spring 2022 will also kick off Ranked Seasons in Age of Empires 4.

If that's the case, then yeah, people playing more might fix it. Without enough players to balance 7k in Bronze 3 I don't really see how it's going to fix itself at this point unless people at Bronze 3 get *significantly* more points for their wins than they do for their losses. Maybe it'll fix itself with more players joining ranked, maybe not. I'm not against Diamond being harder to get rather than what it is in starcraft2, but Bronze-Gold population definitely should be more equalized than what it looks like right now, otherwise it doesn't make much sense. The one which ideally is supposed to represent worse-than-average players. Compared to that, what AoE 4 distribution looks like right now is insane - vast majority of players are squished in the same (quite literally the same) rank - and that's a division of *the lowest rank*. Bronze and Masters+ were noticeably lower). Now, back to AoE - I think it's more fair to compare it with starcraft 2, which back in the day had pretty equal distribution in lower leagues (I think about 20% for each league between Silver and Plat, with Gold taking a bit higher percentage, heck, even diamond wasn't that 'elite', I think it was also about 20% of players in starcraft 2. They just end up having more ranks up in the higher end, which is actually not a bad thing. from The Forge of Empires team on 4/27/22 at 8:48 am. Their bronze is not the same as AoE4 Bronze or starcraft2 Bronze. Build a Stone Age Settlement in the online strategy game Forge of Empires, fight through history. By comparison, starcraft2 starts you where you were rank-wise with only 1 placement, unless you skipped multiple seasons Īnd, well, LoL has Iron as the lowest rank instead of Bronze, so it actually kind of makes sense that Silver is their 'average' rank - it's more-or-less in the same place as Gold in starcraft2. Disclaimer: if in AoE 4 you'll also be forced to play multiple placements *each season* and will always start lower than you were, then I guess this point is invalid. Yea on the first glance it looks a bit bottom-heavy (I guess that's their intention with LoL's ranks) but still - Bronze-Gold population is pretty evenly spread with Silver being the 'average player' rank, there is a 'clearly-worse-than-average' rank of Iron, 'higher-than-average' rank of Platinum, and 'clearly-higher-than-average' of Diamond+.Īnd I don't think AoE4 is entirely fair to compare with LoL since:įrom what I know LoL does the rank-lowering thing at the start of each season so you need to play a certain amount of games just to get to back where you were ('visible' rank definitely gets lowered by, like, a league, don't know exactly how much MMR gets lowered, but I think they do lower it by a certain amount as well? To be fair, might be wrong here). Specifically Bronze III, not just bronze.įunny that you mention LoL, since even there ranked distribution looks healthier, according to at least. For example, 1/3rd of all ranked players are in Bronze III. However, maybe they're just modeling in a super skewed distribution, which seems ridiculous and unlike most games ( CSGO, Starcraft, Rocket League).

Shouldn't the median/mode/mean be much further to the right? From what I see, 78% of players are in silver and bronze lol, that can't be the goal, right?īasically, we're seeing a big difference between place in distribution in quickmatch vs placxe in distribution in ranked that can only be explained by poor population. Seems like the low number of players in ranked means we have this wonky skewed distribution where even silver is super tryhard. Ranked distribution can be found here: Quickmatch distribution can be found here:

Age of empires 4 rankings