why arent they talking at all about the AI?

[Puzz3D]

Do you think it's because sega's putting some pressure on them to make the 'casual' gamer the new priority?

The shift in direction occured under Activision. Sega has paid for more patches than Activision, but the direction the gameplay is being taken seems to be the same.

Personally I don't care much either way, when the game comes out, whether it's a work of art or otherwise, somebody will put together a team and mod their hearts out, and make an extremely enjoyable game for all of us.

Not for multiplayer. Even for singleplayer there are certain things no mod team can change because they are being kept inaccessible.

Did you manage to read what Dr. Jambo wrote before his post was deleted? Do you have a link to the thread he posted in?

I don't know what he posted. I've been trying to get a hold of him to find out. I can't find the thread now, but I did find this posted by an admin at .com in a thread about the Alexander mini-expansion: "There doesn't need to be a thread commenting on the problems people are having. That is simply spam and serves no constructive purpose. Closed."

[caravel]

The MTW gold edition issue was treated similarly. When the version 2.0 problem was exposed. An admin posted a day later and basically said: "use the VI 2.01 patch" (which you can't) and then closed all the topics relating to the issue.