I will not give CA another red cent. A decade they've been making these games, and what have we seen? A drop in battle AI quality. A steep fall in campaign AI. The only improvements have been in graphics.

So why would NTW reverse that? What evidence do we have that they would suddenly start becoming competent at something besides graphics? Did the magical game fairy come to them at night and sprinkle the magic dust of competent AI programming on them?

Right now, E:TW isn't finished. I feel like an idiot for buying it; why in the world would I buy another product from CA when their last one isn't finished, and they seem not to be serious about doing so.

The smart bet is that they'll hype the improvements, leave us out to dry like with ETW and move on after they've got our money.

No, I'm certainly not going to buy it. I bought the complete edition of EU:3 a couple months back. Came with all the expansion packs for just $20.

And you know what it has? No real time battles - but excellent AI. I still play it now for hours on end, though I abandoned ETW months ago. I don't think I could go back to ETW - the AI would make me bash my head against the wall after experiencing EU3.

CR