Sounds a bit like the return of the incredibly stupid approach CA took with S2 when no matter what graphics settings you picked the game decided for itself where to set them.

Forcing users to manually edit the VRAM setting in the preferences file just to get max settings back. I'd really love to hear CA try and rationalize why they think taking this choice away from the user, in the case of S2 w/o telling them, is a good a idea.

But honestly, who cares at this point, CA and the TW franchise in particular jumped the shark (much like this phrase itself) awhile ago in my opinion and I don't believe they honestly know themselves what to do with a franchise that has basically played itself out, witness the floundering exhibited by taking on a fantasy subject with Warhammer.

I mean seriously, how many times can you actually make the same game and expect people to buy it? Personally I could care less if CA ever made another TW title. There's so much else out to play from indies that at least try occasionally do something creative, so wtf would I just keep playing the same game?! Rhetorical question of course, I won't and I'm not.