ETW is a new game engine , once its bugs have been ironed it should be on to the next game/ expansion for CA/Sega with this engine.

As for Steam I hope it has kept the real world pirates at bay so CA/Sega have the revenue streams to produce more PC games .

Personally in ETW if I could identify some real pirates I 'd happily nuke them in the game even if it meant cheating a little.(like putting a tank with uranium shells into ETW) Pirating of ETW is this communities real mortal enemy.