Quote Originally Posted by richyg13
Seems a little narrow minded to me, wouldnt you think if there was an artisit better here in the community than what they employ at CA (yeh they do have to pay some poor sap to make this stuff) that they would be approached and offered a place at the company?
...yet, I haven't heard of anyone being offered anything, not unlike some other game companies (not a lot of them, mind you) where they DO work more closely with modders (Bioware and DLA team comes to mind).

Speaking as someone who is loosely connected to the industry as my course/university has close links to a few major games companies including EA,Blitz and Codemasters I've heard from the men/women themselves that they're actively looking for talent as the industry grows.
well, for starters, they can download the Crusades, or Chivalry Total War and they can make their decision as to whose style they prefer(for medieval stuff)...

Also, you must remember that sometimes quality is restrained in many games due to the time contraints employed by the game's publishers.
now ain't that the truth

I think CA are doing well if they're communicating with the community, it shows they care about the game after its release.
true at least Jerome Grasdyke was helping with the coding stuff in RTW, and that is just as important, and their impending release of the unpacker is something (V had to do that for RTW)

I think we will get what we need eventually,
I think so, too, only question is, do we have to do it ourselves or will they help make things easier for us?
the truth is they dont want to or are not allowed to release their in house tools that went into the game's compilation and therefore a "3rd Party" tool needs to be implemented.
now, if they told me that then I would understand perfectly... I may not really be pleased but it is their prerogative, but pls don't tell me 'modders will not be able to edit or replace these files...because the format is optimised specifically for rendering' its almost like saying, 'nah you have no hope of understanding this... so we won't let you play with it...'
they din't let us 'play' with RTW .cas files but we did anyway...

and please do not look at this as CA bashing coz if I didn't like their products I wouldn't be here spending 80% of my free-time reading/responding to posts, (free time doesn't count the time when I have access to a 'better' computer where I am modding/playing CA games 95% of the time) but at the same time I am not blind to some things - like community modders making better models than CA