FAQ and historical inaccuracies: some odd comments

[Productivity]

I wouldn't group engine problems and gameplay changes with intentionally problems. If you don't like the engine. Why don't you learn how to program and make your own game.

Ah hold up here - this argument is oft used but it's based upon bad logic. I through my purchase have paid CA to program the engine. I don't like the engine so I complain. CA has delivered to me a product which at best barely falls within tolerances so I complain. If you pay someone to do something and they do a sloppy job do you complain, simply because you couldn't do better?

Then we'll ridicule you on all the engine problems because obviously all programmers are perfect and if something happens it's because everything was put into the engine intentionally.

Ah no again, nobody is ridiculing them for not getting it right the first time. People ridicule them for not accepting the errors in the engine (how long/how much effort did it take before the save/load was accepted as a bug?), and for not correcting proven issues with the engine.

Have you ever designed a game ground up? Control your passion would you?

No I haven't - on the otherhand I've never designed a house from the ground up. I pay people to do that, like I pay CA to design a game from the ground up. That doesn't stop me from pointing out that none of the doors open in said house.

Do you think if you yell at them and blame them for everything, that they'll be inclined to help you? It's not like they want people disliking the game.

Well I'd be happy to be civil with them if they started actually treating us like customers, and not like their slaves - to me it seems clear that somehow it has got into their mind that we WILL buy a Total War game regardless - I'm not going to play by those rules, games get bought upon their quality.