Yes, taleworlds call around regularly to ask what these masters of game designing can tell them. Especially chadz, they just used the yellow pages to call him since he didn't respond to their PM's on this forum.
I'm happy you think that the developing part for the crpg in the last years could have been thought and been done by the talewords team with ease, becouse I think the opposite.
The crpg mod brought a substantial sale increase, I think around 15-20% more overall(but I can't say anything without stats)and by the way the numbers of players this mod has taken over is incredibly high considering the playerbase.
If a multiplayer-crpg oriented m&b will be produced I think they could have a massive amount of people buying that considering the lack of this genre atm, and you know a year of experience in a mod that has more of the 50% of the mp players isn't exactly nothing.
This team thought about some features that probably didn't even travelled throught the m&b developer's heads, the strategus is just an example, and, taking as example the strategus, a game built around that without it being only a browser but also with dinamic in game parts could bring to the players something extremely innovative and incredibly involving.
but you know what?I think m&b2 will have some idiotic mp, maybe this time with some rpg elements in it, but that will still bore everyone in less than a month, losing an occasion that could have brought a lot of money to the talewords and the chance to found a brand new multiplayer mmorpg like game category from nothing, but that's just my opinion.
