Well, im mostly with you on this topic, but its a bit "small minded".

All I see here over and over again, are people who talk about the current community. Sure, the current community is the thing you have to work with now.
But what happens, if (lets say) there are 100k new people once S2 hit the shops? What again is the "community"?
Right, the current community is not interesting and important at all, unless you dont get new/more/other player.

If MP will be a success, than the current community means nothing at all, thats logic...


The problem here is the lack of communication, while each successfully working puplisher/producer is involving the player more and more, with tons of infos, movies, betatests and so on, CA simply ignore it and do what they always did....
The problem for CA is also clearly around, the "times" are going out, CA has to think about magic eras or future eras and if this doesnt help, they make a revival, but all in all the game keeps same.
You have a campaign, with a map to move units and build up things and the MP part where you fight the battles, in the end it didnt changed much back from 2000 till today.
CA hast to grow up and they dont do that, apart from better grafix the game dont really got better.

Sorry, time is running and if CA cant move on and improve greatly they are dead in a few years.

Koc