Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
It would appear that CA does not plan on releasing any mod tools, at least per the interview in the link below.

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What do you think?
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Quote Originally Posted by Zenicetus
With Napoleon coming out so soon, CA doesn't have the same incentive to keep interest alive in ETW. They want you to be buying NTW and talking about that. Every game company always focuses on its latest release, not its earlier ones that have already gone through most of the retail cycle.

So, I think if we're going to place blame for the lack of ETW modding tools, a lot of it has to fall on CA's decision to rush out a reworked version of ETW as a full game with Napoleon, instead of going the conventional route of DLC's or expansions, and stretching out the core franchise.
You may have a point. If this was the case, however, they shouldn't have gotten the community's hopes up.