Yeah, I installed it about a week and a half ago or so, but never got around to it. Also been reading up on all the beginner's stuff and tips on the forum. Saw it on during commercials on Greatest Tank Battles (love that show ) and thought it looked pretty slick.

I had alpha/beta acess for it back when it first came up. Never played it really though.

You should install it, I found it pretty fun

I think this is a very interesting question with two important subquestions:

- How much would sales drop if they left out a campaign?

- What's the cost of creating the campaign (voice actors, script writers, etc) compared to making the multiplayer part of the game?

On these two hang the whole question.  Perhaps the total cost of creating the game is split 10% campaign, 90% everything else.  In that case I would put money down that having a campaign is a net positive for them.  Even though the internet is full of multiplayer stuff I imagine half or so of the people who buy the game hardly play multiplayer at all, but give the campaign a full runthrough, perhaps a little bit of other stuff (zombies, spec ops).

But the cost may be more like 30% or more campaign and less than 70% multiplayer, in which case they may have to seriously consider every year whether to make one.

The campaign establishes alot of the maps for the MP, if you think about it.  If they got rid of the campaign they would end up something like what BF2 did which was having the single player being a bootcamp for the MP, but with bots instead of real players.  If you have played BF2 you know what I am talking about but for those who don't the developers simply shortened the maps so that you could get the feel for the game using the vehicles, but at the same they made it small enough so that you could make contact with the opposition instead of running around the whole time.