command and conquer was my first meaningful videogame experience. it felt awesome to command forces into the enemy's base and destroy them. i was a kid, and i grew up on action movies with real heroes. command and conquer was a step into a world of action, honor, glory, and strategy. command and conquer entered my life at a young age, and it probably had some sort of butterfly effect on my whole life.
this is why i think people are passionate about the game, and rage about things that disappoint them; command and conquer has more than just a mundane meaning for us. it is no shallow form of entertainment. it fulfilled multiple levels of pleasure: excitement, challenge, imagination. and i wont rage on about EA and what they did, but saying that i think they violated MY franchise in order to "try" something new actually speaks to what command and conquer is to me and what i've invested in it.