I call it contempt because they clearly have the resources ($$$) to develop a game with these characters. And yet they will not relaunch the popular game that, given the entertainment culture (movies and tv), would make it a hot item.
Instead they would rather sit on the ip, thumb their noses at us and give us something we didn't want, this is why I call it contempt.
The cluelessness came about when they shut down CoX in favor of launching other unproven properties.