I just read on the RTR forums...

[khelvan]

Sorry, but we don't make our decisions based on making some sort of statement about the industry. If a given expansion had enough content that we could use to improve our mod such that it would warrant the expense, we would move to it. Perhaps gaming companies should use that as rationale to improve their expansions, not justify making their games less moddable.

Modding never seemed to hurt expansion sales for certain other moddable strategic games. Games companies may use it as rationale, but it is rationalization, and not a true reason.

[Chester]

Bi is not bad. The skins are terrible and the factions are poorly done. But the mechanics are interesting.

I bought it for the potential mods and have not played it for months. CA was busy on MTW2 to actually care about a rome mod. You can tell when you first view the skins.