Number of turns?

[Mikhal]

It's a shame CA feels it has to try and make a smaller, more compact campaign to cater to more casual gamers. It would be nice if veteran and hardcore gamers like those of us on the Org (I asume most of us count as non-casual gamers) got an option to extend the campaign.

It can sometimes feel a little annoying that the long term fans (who bought every game and sank hours into the series) don't get the game we want because CA has to worry about little things like 'the general public' and 'actually making money and selling more than a couple hundred games'.

Actually, I would say that a game spanning over a shorter period of time (like the 100 years in ETW) with shorter turns is the more hardcore as opposed to a game like M2TW with a long campaign including loads of different content which I think feels as if they are just trying to attract the casual mainstreamers with catch phrases like "In our game you can use knights in full plate AND gunpowder muskeeters AND colonize the Americas!"

I consider myself hardcore and I look forward to the 100-year Empires campaign which will allow the devs to be more elaborate on the 18th century as a historic period and not just cram 500 years of history into one game like in M2TW.