patches

[HarunTaiwan]

It's interesting to see other people came to the same conclusion about the bug thread that I did.

Though it is better than nothing and might even be useful in the end.

I suspect we will not see any increase in Battle AI or Strategic AI. Just more units, factions, and a new time period.

Oh well.

[Old Celt]

It would only take a few words from an official CA rep to clear these issues up. It seems to me that Jerome stepped in a pasture patty a couple of weeks ago by saying words to the effect that "most of the work has already been done" regarding major issues members have been asking for a patch to fix. After that, the question of why no dev patch can be released to improve play between now and the time the consumer financed patch (expansion) comes out has been asked a lot. AFAIK, there have been no CA postings from anyone other than The Shogun since then.

It is interesting, and not a little sad, how many otherwise intelligent people can be so easily distracted from the central point of a debate. The need for a patch is clear cut and the existence of very detrimental bugs has been proven, yet many people are easily led down the garden path and change the debate from the rightful discussion of CA's responsibility to customers, to a debate of speculation over why they completely shirk that responsibility. No one should care what CA's excuses are in the customer community: that's not OUR problem. Just as I would with any other product, if it is defective enough to inconvenience me, I expect the manufacturer to put it right, not give me a song and dance about why they can't / won't. In this case, it is clearly the latter.