How difficult is it for Relic to have a couple of freelancers like Osinyagov to work on iterative updates for COH2? The game has more broken text-strings, typos, grammatical errors and general UI inconsistencies than most mods for any currently played RTS!
Is the game so barren financially as to only barely warrant the operation of the servers?
Before I continue to stray off topic: these are great suggestions. Yes. so many ways to make the UI better.
See, I'm not too sure about this.
There's the 64-bit update Relic has been working on and wanted to launch last week. So they've spent money on those employees dedicating their time to that process. There's also $20k USD they've dropped for last year's World Championship tournament and another $20k USD they've dropped for this year's World Championship tournament!
I think it's more about what they choose to put money in to. But they have several projects that they've been working on that are unannounced besides AoE 4. My belief is that they've been hard at work with CoH3 and they're gonna announce it this month when they have the spotlight during SEGA's 60th anniversary stuff!