I'm sure if there was something the community could do then they would act. The simple truth though is that CA, quite frankly, never listens to the community, even less so to the small Multiplayer community. In the past there's been petitions, written letters and community members even proposing a consultation session. I'm sure that one of the community members even went off to work for CA in Australia, that didn't change anything.

Look at the way CA wont even provide mod support for a game which used to, and still does, have an active moding community. If you look at the up coming Civilization V, Firaxis are bending over backwards to accommodate a moding community as they know it's an integral part of the game. Unfortunately, CA doesn't seem to want to push the boundaries of their games these days. It's probably due to the fact that there isn't really any other big games similar to the Total War series to challenge the series' dominance, and thus we get the same formula over and over again.

I would like CA to listen for once and to pull its fingers out of its ears so that we can have a game which has user as well as developer input. Sadly, CA hasn't done this for a long time and I doubt this title will be any different.