...otherwise you wouldn't have dropped this game in this state.
This game is a small fish in a sea of games that were bugged on release, just be thankful they'll continue to support it.
I dont mean to be negative but give it another 2 weeks and there will be no need to support this game. Online is almost dead as it is already and once the few players actually playing reach level 50...
Wrong, since multiplayer is NOT the only reason why you patch a game. The exact same thing happened with Halo Reach when it came out (console example i know, but i rarely play arcade games on PC...which is why C2 is special

). The forums were full of doom and gloom, that it was buggy, Bungie could go to hell, lets all go back to CE, lets troll this joint! And the same went on with Halo 3, yet they are still one of the most played games on XBL to date.
Put simply the amount of crap you hear on the forums doesn't always equate to the amount of ACTUAL problems and the ACTUAL amount of people getting rid of the game.
Besides, these days its hard to intrude on the mass popularity of CoD, TF2, CSS etc, so for me the addition of Multiplayer is just something to much around with. I think i'm one of the few who appreciates a good story that does not necessarily need to make sense in terms of realism. Its called Sci-Fi, have some fun with it.