Originally Posted by [SR]Caveman

I agree Resolver1. There are more issues than just piracy but they are all contributing to what this list shows.

As for C & C, I never really talk about other games in any way that can be construed as promoting our games (by making comments about other games). So I'm going to skip over the first part of your question.

It is funny that you mention EA though because I just had the opportunity to meet some of the most high level people at EA. Basically the top brass of EA in Europe. I have to say that even I was surprised at how clued in they are to gaming. The conversations that people have here about games (popularity of RTSs etc.) are exactly the same kinds of conversations we had together. They really know their stuff and are not out of touch at all with what different kinds of gamers want. I can be a little cynical myself sometimes and see making games as a business (which it is) where you need success to survive. I thought that the conversations we had would be more business focused but they weren't. They were all about gaming. We talked about different titles, how hardcore they were, what other titles we compete with etc. All good stuff.

As for where we are now, we're really mostly working on improving the game by addressing bugs etc.