Ive been playing MP for couple of months now and the sterilised and artificial battles drew away all the feeling that i had from the first contact with the game in sp.
The "mirror" like laboratory flat battles with ideal "non benefiting/giving advantage" sterile enviroments made the all thing pointless in a way.
Although remarcable the exeptions of the above majority fought in hilly desert and other enviroments battles couldnt take away the tasteless feeling and smell of drugstore of the whole process.
However as it goes if you dont have smthing u are forced to live with what you have so the sterile enviroment keeps its existance and the community after the disdain of the devs to the idea of creation of an MP campaign remains IMHO prisoner of the sterilised encounters...

PS: With the statement of the devs that they target the "Broader" consumer group i have to say that the MAJORITY of RTS players want in MP to have the ability to BUILD their civilisations and if CA wants a part of the pie that Blizzard and others share the current form of MP wont appeal to these part of gamers IMHO.

hellenes