Quote Originally Posted by screwtype
The last straw for me was when a member of CA on this board recently confessed that Activision had exerted no pressure on CA and that all the design decisions in the game were CA's own.
Well, of course CA was the one that decided to make the game mass-market rather than realistic or whatever. No, the only thing I expect Activision is responsible for is the bad support. That's a very big thing, however.

The only design decision I really hold against CA was their failure to release so many modding tools to the public—we had to come up with tools like PAK extractors and CAS editors ourselves, we have to edit the many layers of the campaign map by hand, and so forth. The biggest thing CA left uneditable is the AI—true, it would be much harder to edit than anything yet released, but dedicated and skilled people like Vercingetorix could manage it if they didn't have to make basic tools like animation extractors. Other major annoyances are the hardcoding for the factions and the limitations of the scripting systems.

My future TW purchases will, in large part, probably be contingent on moddability. If Hun Invasion (or whatever the expansion will be) addresses enough of my modding complaints, you can bet I'll be buying it.

-Simetrical