Release skirmish now to save the game!

[:1]There's nodenyingthat they left out an integral part of the game by not releasing the skirmish hall on game launch. Why they did that is beyond me. I can understand you wanting to release this game with as little content as possible so you can make the most money, but think about it. How are you going to make money when your driving everyone away? There's alot of people like me that enjoy pve games alot more than the get rushed in the first 5 minutes game over style of pvp. So I think you shouldn't wait till christmas to release the skirmish hall after the communitys dead and no one buys it, but instead release it now and save your game! I don't know how much of this gets to the guy upstairs, but he's sure gonna notice when his check book isn't as fat.|||Release a half-butt version of skirmish mode with bugs now! Yes! Listen to OP!
|||Yeah because coming here to flame developers will get you far. Wilmer I would leave this board before you try to login to your 360 and see COC messages in your inbox.|||Skirmish hall can't be that hard to make. They had it in a game from over 10 years ago...|||Everyone keeps saying skirmish hall is going to "save the game." Is it actually going to allow other players to join the game, and be separate from single-player progress? Or just allowing people to set starting conditions but go in with the same stuff they'd have in a quick match?
|||You have no clue what goes through game development huh? You can say the same thing about replays but gpgsteve even stated that it took a year for Blizzard to develop the replay system for Starcraft 2.
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All I wants is pve its been a part of the game since aoe1. An yes this would attract alot of people in the pve community. This is honestly gonna kill the game for any gamer who doesn't like pvp. How you people aren'trealizingthis is beyond me.

|||One other thing they could do to increase the lifespan / breathe more life into the game is to allow players to create maps / scenarios / campaigns. They could even create some kind of "Marketplace" for these custom campaigns to make money for the scenario makers and MS.
|||Or for people who like to play a game for more than 5-10 minutes. Thats why when I pvp I play mainly with my brothers or friends so we can have big battle. I care about fun more than my record. Hell I wouldn't care if I was 0-100 as long as the game lasted 30minutes to an hour. But anytime we try to invite someone in their strategy is rush in first 5 minutes game over. If thats fun to you than youd pry enjoy a pet rock to.|||My PvP games last 15-20 mins on average.
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now we have diffrent strategies for a rts game! weird.

no seriously, just scout your opponent and you will know what he is planning to do.

|||Yes please release it...
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Hi all,

I just posted about Skirmish

http://forums.ageofempiresonline.com/forums/103032/ShowThread.aspx#103032

as well as other features and fixes.

This is the highest priority feature we're working on right now. We want it to be great.

Thanks
Ian