2) Online play is too exacting for my liking. In-depth experimentation to determine is a particular unit is 1 or 2 % better value for money etc.
You realise right thats because people are at such similiar standards? If your a good players is vs a noob then you could go out with any old army. Its just like equipment in sport, your army is say your golf club, you need exactly the right kind of iron or you'll lose.

5) The battles mean nothing. They have no context. There is no reward or punishment on the campaign map for online battles. They are like ODIs compared to Test Matches.
One word - tournaments. They do mean things. Don't like competiive tourneys? Well Yellow Mellon has been so kind as to setup a ladder for anyone on gs arcade, you can just work your way up the ladder as you improve.

4) Too many childish morons on-line. Too many people who spend their lives playing MP who think that somehow makes their male organ larger. The one and only time I fired up RTW MP, the very first line in the foyer was "get the **** out of my game homophobe" from a guy with the delightful name of Captain a**e-bandit. Gosh, what a lovely, welcoming place, such pleasant people! Not at all conforming to every negative stereotype of MPers, and every previous experience of mine in online games.......
Dig deeper than the lobby. go to the clan forums, when looking for a clan I deliberatly didn't yell out in the lobby "any clans recruiting" instead I visited various clans sites/forums to see which was right for me.


3) Not good enough, and don't have the time to be good enough
See Warman's answer reply.

No thanks, back to ruminating for 5 minutes over whether to spend that last 5000 on Bactrian Auxilia Phase II or new roads........
But with a campaign doesn't it get boring doing that campaign after campaign? Each battle is different online, every campaign is the so predictable offline.