The decline of the Real-Time Strategy genre

I still play Warcraft III community maps, there are plenty of cool story maps, even tower defense is fun to chill

Dawn of war is dead ? But they release the 4th. Ago of empire is fine. Empire earth was lame in PvP. Warcraft and StarCraft were killed by blizzard. So far total war still exist (and for me that's the modern RTS). So it's not dead it just changed evolved and the customer of video

It is a genre for smart people, less and less smart people, less Money

These games have always been tricky. The people expecting a coherent story consider them awkward: the fact that you have to rebuild from scratch in every campaign does not sit well with them. The best way to play them is isometric view, so you lose the horny people, who want thir

genre is not fit to serve purpose[of extracting money from sheep], so it's dying and being kept alive by modders and few studios

They turned into work, instead of fun.

They're still around, but the retard generations can't handle the complexity. So they don't sell.

Gen Z happened Joke aside, these games didn't go well with modern in game monetization. The learning curve is too harsh for a player base that moved into the "participation trophy" culture.

Age of empires 2 is thriving

Not enjoyable for casuals as the genre started to focus more and more on competitive multiplayer.