It's due to this mindset that COH will slowly die that's for sure.
There is no point in releasing a product if it's not even 1% competent against the market forces.
You seriously expect kiddos to spend their hard earned bucks on a complex strategy game that (judging by AOE4 and COH2 in its release state) is not even that good?
When the alternatives are perfectly addictive and FREE games like LOL and DOTA2? Do you seriously believe that?
the big difference is that DotA and LoL have 2003 graphics and run on every pudding PC. the 2nd reason they are so popular is that you only control 1 unit which is dumb imo but people prefer less complex games