A Hearty Thank You To player1

[Barbarossa82]

CA should allow digital downloads of mods and player1 patches on their website for a small sum which would be passed onto the people making mods or unoffical patches. CA could take a small cut as well.

I think it would be a clever business model that would greatly extend the life of games.

For the mods, I think that's actually a good idea, as it would encorage the mods too. But if they were doing this with BugFixer, it would mean them charging extra for stuff that shouldn't have been bugged to start off with. The sale price of the game is supposed to cover QA. Now CA have created a complex game, which they deserve credit for. And they have repeatedly patched it, which they also deserve credit for. But the QA, whether it was handled by CA, Activision or Sega, frankly sucked, as we can see from the enormous list of basic bugs that BugFixer has to deal with. What player1 has done - unpaid, individually - is what the developer's or publisher's QA should have covered for a game that went to market at £34.99.

EDIT: Back to the actual topic - I heartily add my thanks to Player1 for making RTW an exciting prospect again!