If you check out my blog weekly you should know that AoE III is in my now playing list. If your an AoE III player then you should know all about ESO (Ensemble Studios Online). If you don't here it is, IT SUCKS!

ESO is a wonderful feature that I thought would keep me gaming online for long after the game was released. I had great hopes for the system since it was backed by the developers of the game. Truth be told I had more fun playing on Zone when AoE II was still popular. The major reason for this hate towards ESO is; boardband connection.

I know what you are saying, stop complaining and get boardband. But how can I get boardband if its not offered in my area? So I'm stuck with dail-up. When it comes to playing online that is the one thing that you can't have. The game runs slow and there is major lag. But here comes the real bad part that had me writing this as a blog post. I was on ESO the other day for 30 mins! Thats right 30 mins and couldn't get into a game. Why? Cause everyone would boot me from there game either saying I had a bad connection or nothing at all. Then I said F it I will host my own game. That didn't work either! People would come in, I said whatsup, then they would leave.

So here I am, writing this as a blog and mostly playing online with my clan members. I might get a game in without them but most of the time I'm playing with my clan. It sucks that I can't wake up tomorrow morning and want to play AoE III but can't. Because no one in my clan is up or home at that time. So all I can say is welcome to my online hell