>>724099862
Because I want to build big bases and big armies and then smash them together, but most RTS developers have always tried to avoid base-building for whatever reason. So RTS is a dead genre, while city-builders and colony sims with RTS elements are doing decent.

Overwhelming emphasis on PvP also hurt the genre. PvP in general is declining.

>>724113818
I've been playing AOE:DE and even low-ELO games have advanced strategies and guys trying to rush in the feudal age. Been playing Beyond All Reason as well, it's a great RTS but already it's just too sweaty for me most of the time.