I appreciate the blog.

I don get the feeling that he wanted to stop criticism. I think he was just telling it as it is.

We have to differentiate between constructive criticism and just bashing.

I know the game was buggy in 1.01 and they deserved the unfinished label for it but unlike some of you I thought 1.01 showed a great deal of potential with a few fixes.

It was what they did in 1.2 and 1.3 that was so bad. By 1.3.1 it was getting a bit better but they through in the black knight diplomacy which brought on more gripes.

I too was an ardent supporter of ETW before release but after 1.2 I was accused of bashing. I didn’t see it that way though, and I would do it again. I thought they took things that were working fine and trashed them and put in some quick fixes to placate a vocal minority.

Well as various points they put things back mostly how they were and things are looking up.

The largest part of it is fixed now. I am mostly satisfied with what they have given us and I think I got my money’s worth out of it.

I am even considering buying the War Path Campaign, something I didn’t see happening just a few days ago.

Depending on support and developments I might even take a (skeptical) look at NTW.