Originally Posted by
Caiada
The genre sort of died out, lacking innovation in general. There's really just Total War and SC2. The latest C&C bombed to hell, tried to do too much, and failed at it. AoE Online tried to make itself super-casual, which isn't what anybody really strongly interested in the genre is looking for. Warcraft 4 probably got consumed by WoW's success, at least for the moment. Who else is going to make them? All the old series are gone, and nobody's found anywhere new to go in the genre.