Now take what I say with a grain of salt. I stopped playing after Rome2
Well there's the problem. Their last two games (Three Kingdoms and Warhammer II) have been excellent. Warhammer II is a great casual game with dozens of highly unique factions and a good DLC/FLC flow that the community really seems to enjoy. The latest DLC (hitting next week) currently has the community absolutely hyped. Three Kingdoms is really high quality and polished, making some big advances (like diplomacy), the only issue is that its setting (civil war in China) makes it a bit repetitive to play because almost every faction has the same units and culture.
As I've said Rome 2 was a bit of a mess and Atilla wasn't that great, but both Three Kingdoms and Warhammer II have been received very positively, and definitely show CA/SEGA seem to be back on the right track.