What did Vanilla get right?

[Lysimachos]

We people here surfing forums, downloading mods and discussing historical accuracy are not the average buyers. You'll always find lots of people who want a game more complex, more historically accurate, more challenging, but those who pay the company its money (in numerical relation) don't want that. They are satisfied with a bit of everything and a portion of "cool" stuff like shining LS armour, war dogs and different roman families. There probably never will be a game which has no "need" for modding, not because the developers suck, but because they do the game for those they can earn money with.
Game play is a two edged sword.