National prestige.

[Macilrille]

Kevin, same here.

As for

It's not like they make any money off it anymore

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I just bought another copy of BG The Entire Saga, so do not underestimate old games.

[Subotan]

They do actually: they still get money for the sales of "classic games" editions, and so on. Also, parts of the R:TW and M2:TW code will have made their way into E:TW. Releasing the source code would be giving away their programming tricks to their competitors.

Oh. Is it likely they'd ever release it>

I just bought another copy of BG The Entire Saga,.

Me too!

[GenosseGeneral]

well i think the diplomatic ai has the problem to be too inflexible. it always wants at least its cities back for peace although the player can easily send it to hell. it is not programmed for staying alive but for short-term benefits( e.g. betraying a stronger ally for capturing a border town) and it has some kind of a "everything or nothing"-mind which becomes visual if you want peace.
on the other hand i had some strange thinks in my baktria campaign: AS started war, i won 2 battles ook 1 town. then they demanded peace so i told them to give me another town. THEY DID IT!!! (AI ? accepting peace?) they attacked me next round again, i did simply beat their siege army and they wanted peace again. i demanded another town and they gave it again. by this i went until persepolis until i stopped expansion and cared for the parthians.
i heard something of divided campaign map and diplomatic ai which shall be the explaination for this. is this right?

[Lysimachos]

i heard something of divided campaign map and diplomatic ai which shall be the explaination for this. is this right?

Yes. At least that is what they told us, when they were talking about what they wanted to do better with Empire. Don't know if they did.