I think we should rename the entire saga as "Broken: Total War".

Broken Public Confidence.
Broken Brand Confidence.
Broken Game.
Broken Promises.
Total War between the Developers and the Userbase.


While I will be honest and say the patches have gone a long way to fixing the game, after a year, they should have simply done my suggestion in the beginning.

Release a stable product that works, then release the mod tools and allow the community to make this into a great game. If they simply did this, E:TW would be miles better.