Is CM dying?

[kineas]

Around 2007 Steve/BFC just wanted anyone to embrace the new system, the realtime mode and the 1:1 representation was all the rage. Old fans who preferred turn based gameplay and abstractions were simply disregarded by the company and eventually left.

Steve said several times that creating new CMx1 type games just would lead to bankruptcy. So they came up with this modular-model which must be successful because they are still around.

I first believed in the 1:1 representation but now I think it just doesn't work. It's far too costly to develop a product like that. In the meantime practice also showed that the realtime format is... not ideal to everyone, so the WEGO mode is more ore less acceptable now.

I don't really follow CMx2 so others may have more up to date info.