Sega acquires Total War Developer

[Spino]

Wow, this is surprising news! And here I thought Activision was looking to champion and exploit the Total War property as their flagship strategy series. I have to assume Activision either really needed the cash or simply couldn't turn down the amount Sega offered them for CA. And I was not aware that CA 'belonged' to anyone in the first place. I thought CA was an independent developer who simply kept going via contracts with large publishing companies.

So just how large is Sega (specifically Sega Europe) compared to Activision? How is their working relationship with their other in-house developers? How is their Q&A dept. compared to Activision's? Will we see more of the one or two patch nonsense from Sega for future TW titles?

Here's a few questions meant for CA's employees (or anyone in the know)...

Does this change of ownership affect RTW's expansion pack? I must assume nothing is changed and CA and Activision will continue their working relationship until the expansion pack is completed (and patched once, and only once) since Rome is technically Activision's baby.

How do CA's employees feel about the change of ownership? Obviously if this is a bad thing I don't expect them to say anything negative but now that they're relatively free of Activison's yoke do any of them care to comment on their relationship with their former owners?