I agree with most of what you said, yes the quality would have to be high and a subscription would demand that, It would be an interesting turn for totalwar games to take imo and provided the game was good the community would reestablish itself especially with good ladders and tournaments.
Not that i see it happening it would take a bold company to do an online subscription outside mmorpgs (not sure if its been done before) but the game is a muliplayer dream waiting to happen with the right online support.
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