Age of Empires

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Age of Empires, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

UI doesn't scale on 4K screens, so elements are too tiny to play2026-02-15
Build icons all look the same, so players must check tooltips to find buildings2024-12-03
Multiplayer requires messing with DLLs and Proton settings, and is still laggy2023-01-17
Never worked over the internet without manually forwarding many ports2021-10-16
Writing triggers through the editor's interface is painful and clumsy2018-02-15
Text does not render properly while typing2017-12-30
Unplayable on high-DPI screens unless sprites are scaled, which looks ugly2017-07-28
Units wander into enemy range, chase targets, and idle while allies die, requiring constant manual orders2016-01-03