I'm reading over what's being said about Fallen Enchantress, and you know what? I could give a fuck less at this point. "A new team." "A new game." Straight from the news blurb. They're talking about FE as though it's its own thing, and is departing from Elemental in drastic ways.
Which would be good, if Elemental were truly worth a shit right now. Which it's not. I'm not hearing "expansion works to make base game great." I'm hearing "expansion which we hope makes you forget Elemental and all the promises we made."
And it's a completely stand alone product. Fuck. This. Shit. The fact it's free to long time Elemental owners is more like a "sorry for all the fuck ups" then "here's the real game you paid and waited for."
When Relic released the stand-alone expansion to the Company of Heroes, Tales of Valor, they did it because their main game had a proven track record, massive sales, and managed to be addictively fun after dozens and dozens of hours. The product did so well they earned the right to try something different.
Elemental hasn't even met beta-levels of expectations yet, and Brad already thinks it's time to do something different, again? As though every iteration of Elemental so far has been a raging fucking success? Grah. How Brad can seem like he's got a handle on it, then make decisions that are completely divorced from reality, is beyond me.