Anyone else a little worried by the interviews?!

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Don't you think it would be easy to satisfy both lots, though, with a few simple checkboxes in the options? The kiddies who want something like AoE with more men on the screen can simply turn off all the "realism" options and they have their 20 minutes of fun while the hardcore military history dorks can tick yes to all these options and have proper feudal recruitment, a detailed economy, and no ahistorical units.

It really is something I think CA could have realised by now....they can still sell a lot of copies while not "selling out" or their game being considered "boring".

Yeah, I totally agree with that and for the life of me I can't understand why CA aren't giving the player more options.

I mean, heck, if they're so worried about making the game too "hard" for the kiddies, just make the default mode the RTS one and then tuck most or all of the realism options into a configuration file where the hardcore gamers can go and tweak them. That way there is no chance of the poor little kiddies getting all confused with the different choices.