This is interesting to note about the patch policy between Sega and EA. Another game that I play quite frequently is Sims 2, for which there is a very large fan base, and a large modding community.

Its been a struggle without real response against EA/Maxis to get a patch for University, the first EP for Sims 2, despite the glaring bugs in the game. Its come to a point where the modding community is releasing unsupported patches for the game where EA will not spend time and money on to do as they should, to support a product they have earned huge amounts of money from.

There is a group of people, including myself that have been very verbal about this, to the point where we have stated not buying future products of EA. I am glad another company has taken over and decided to support CA's work as I have really enjoyed RTW and will most likely get the EP now.

Every game or piece of software will have bugs, its really the response to these by the developers and their company that changes the players outlook on the quality of the product.

Just my little rant