What did Vanilla get right?

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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.

I honestly doubt CA would have lost any money if they'd made vanilla RTW like EB. IMO EB is a lot easier to get into then some other strategy games *cough*all Paradox games*cough*.

I think the main reason CA didn't go the "EB way" is because it would've taken an excessive amount of time, and since they're a company after all, they need to make as much money in as little time as possible



edit: a path to the dark side spammage is, young padawan