I rarely get angry and especially for such a matter (my hobby) that is entirely out of my control; much less to feel "rage" and even less express it in a posting board.
By "CA" i mean whoever is taking decisions in them or for them; the decision makers have beyond any doubt by simply choosing to emphasise on certain aspects of the game ignore people that play it with expectations in the tactical and strategic department. The AI has worsen with every release past VI, bugs that were solved returned and testing and balancing the units and gameplay is almost non-existent and has been broadly accepted as "normal" due to small development times, despite the fact that interferes with game playability upon release.
I also dislike the colourful expressions you use to bring out the absurd, as they are a trick to support your argument and not an argument themselves. That's your choice though.
In any case the TW community has been among the most dedicated and optimistic ever since STW came out and i don't know how long have you been following the various forums dedicated to it or read their past posts but the stance of CA at various incidents has been pretty much as i describe above; hence the incident with the rejection of the mp petition that was signed by a significant number of known and full fledged members of the .org for RTW and many others that i do not wish to speak about. Are you aware of these episodes?
M2 was released with the shield bug and the two-hand bug that essentially ruined gameplay as they made it counter-intuitive. Does that bring flowers and praise out of you? Or the fact that you were playing so long without knowing their existance made everything ok?
Noir
edit = I doubt very much that the AI needs to be an inch more complex because the men became 3D polygonic, but even if that is the case, CA shouldn't have moved on till it had it working, or at least make it work 4 years on with the same engine. Unfortunately for those that are buying their games neither happened.
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