ORIGINAL: Steve McClaire
New versions will likely be separate games, if that is what you are asking. Now add-ons to the first game.
Steve
[:(] I'd prefer CC to go the way more popular series have gone and start introducing DLC and expansions for the games. Paradox do this well with their series, and if you look at Panzer Corps, the expansions to that game are
better than the base game.
At the momemnt we have to purchase several CC games, each with various things added to them and taken away... the quality of each game varies and it has effectively split the community. You might have CC3, and I have CCPITF, but we can't play multiplayer together.
Now imagine if the Bloody First was a base game with DLC and expansions added onto it. Rather than have several "next gen" CC games, we'd have one game which was constantly being updated and improved. It would be easier to sell it to new players - "the base game is ok, but with all that DLC it's great!" - and players who bought the base game are more likely to buy the expansions so long as they offer improvements and new campaigns/maps etc.
Obviously, there's pro's and cons to anything, but for the first time in CC history we have a new engine, a new game and a new clean slate to try something new. And from a player point of view, I'm seeing a lot of advantages to having DLC and expansions for CC.