No it's just the internet. The arrival and expansion of the internet means there's more idiots out there and as you know, "one person complaining means that there are 100 people complaining the exact same thing".
Then you got wikipedia and all of a sudden people have a Bachelor in history and game design and are experts in how a business should be run.
10 years down the road when we are playing Warhammer 40,000 Total war (Yes I do want one), people will be praising about how historically accurate and bug free ETW was (Just like how people are praising how bug free and historically accurate Shogun and MTW and MTW2 were).
Yes because calling a company a bunch of novices is so mature and civil good job lad. No novice company would release a product and then continue gathering feedback from the community to continue making the game better.Beg pardon sir, we have every right to say what we think. As long as it's civil.
A novice company is one that trends into terrority that they know nothing about, give a half-ass effort, and then leave the consumers high and dry with no support and I know several companies that have done that.
You guys are lucky that CA is mature enough to actually wander into these bash infested boards and pick out the "constructive criticism" and see what they can do to make it better or solve it.
Needless to say, I've yet to see any game that hasn't been given patches at all. Hell even Blizzard patches their games and they take how long to make them?
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