Quote Originally Posted by GFX707
I have seen this same stupid "The developers don't owe us anything" crap on hundreds of game message boards for years and it's so infuriatingly stupid and illogical that it makes me want to punch a baby.
I see your point. But tell that to Microsoft. Tell that to the entire software industry. Almost all software I work with - and I do this to earn a living - is delivered late, buggy and broken by companies that, unless you have an ongoing contract with them, don't give a damn. Quite how we fix this short of boycotting all crap software is beyond me; us consumers continue, sheep-like, to buy any old rubbish.

In the games industry it's even worse, because games are produced by developers and released by completely different companies. Good developers lavish care and attention on a game, only to have it forcibly released six months before it's ready with a manual 10% of the size of the one they wanted.

Yes, RTW has annoying bugs. Yes, I am surprised some of them got past QA and playtesting when I was annoyed by them in the first two hours of playing. But being unpleasant to Creative Assembly isn't going to help. In my experience, they care about their games and are good at releasing patches. If you want to raise hell, there's probably some slimy marketing guy at Activision that deserves it.

For what it's worth, I'm sufficiently upset by some of the bugs that I'm probably going back to MTW until a Rome patch comes out. But I'm fairly confident that patched RTW will be a truly great game.

Blimey, we've lurched a bit off-topic haven't we? Sorry.