Is CM dying?

[kineas]

I was unable to make the jump to CMx2 and I don't regret it. The wargaming niche is resurging, plenty of good games around. Of course if one likes the CMx2 series that's all fine. But few fans of the old series migrated to the new.

CMx1 (CMBB) was released in 2002. Even in 2006 the community was huge, on the Blitz and on several other sites. Not to mention the BFC forums, just search for the old topics. You can't even compare the two games. Just look at the number of PBEM games reported on the blitz.

There's nothing wrong in it if you prefer CMx2 to CMx1, these are games after all. But CMx1 was a classic, a novelty and of course it's hard to beat that in popularity.