The 3 big problems with this patch besides many others that already have been mentioned.
This patch brings the big problems that were in wol and hots, that we all hated:
- Slow start, even in tournaments, there was nothing going on in the first 5-7 min of the game (this hits especially hard because it is not a new game, people don’t want to have that boring and annoying experience in the ladder)
- Remember how in tournaments they finally got that big army, and the next 10-12 minutes, they would just be scared to engage, so to lose that army? We are basically back to one fight, and very hard to get your army back;
- The dynamic is simply gone, if before even in lower leagues you would attack from both sides dozens of times in the same game, now you only have a few of those attacks even in a very long game, just because of how the eco/macro works now.
Add that to the fact that the balance now is substantially worse than in the wol or hots.
And also there is no hype as it is not a new game, and there a no new units or skills or upgrades that would keep the players interested to play.