Did you hear about the 25th Anniversary remaster?
The official community feedback forums are actually the OpenRA forums. This is a good sign that EA is actually interested in feedback from the hardcore fans; the nerds who rebuilt the C&C games from scratch and rebalanced them with updates because EA stopped feeding the market.
Maybe the remasters will be about rekindling goodwill with the fandom.
If fucking fortnite can be a money maker, I'm sure EA can make a free-to-play game profitable too if they don't let their greed get in the way of good gameplay.
Fortnite was a fucking flop until they made the battle royale mode. It was a throwaway title at that point that they took a gamble on after seeing the success of PubG. C&C is essentially a throwaway IP at this point as far as EA is concerned... They should take a risk with it and make a full RTS free-to-play with only cosmetic options for purchase.