Just scrolling through the forums lately, i ran into an interesting post by Elmarkofear (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...2#post1438282). Part of it reads:

Originally posted by Elmarkofear
Being positive has never had any effect on encouraging CA to help the MP community, or even give us a small amount of consideration. As stated above, many of us were very positive, and supportive of CA and loved the MP community and gameplay. However, we soon found, and it was also stated several times by CA, that MP is not as important as the SP campaign and that MP was just an afterthought and not the main concern of the developers. Knowing this, how could anyone remain positive and think it would have any effect on CA's decision to ignore the MP community?
Many Thanks

Noir