Can't quite understand the fuss. THe patch will come when it will come. C'mon guys it's the gaming industry, just call TF2 or DN:Forever into mind.

I encountered some of the "faulty" aspects of the game, the passive AI in face of a larger army only three times. I have huge fun playing M2TW and for the last weeks invested every waking hour in building my empire.

Sure, a patch would be nice and it will come sooner or later. At the moment when encountering a buggy issue, I just include it into my gaming experience:

Passive AI? Ah, it's that damn newbie general, paralyzed to death by the sight of my mighty army.

Defunct AI in sieges? Only encountered it once, enemy units strolling aimlessly through Paris and thought: "Ha, they should have brought a map getting lost in the city. And their guys sitting out of the gate are just cowards thinking: 'The others will do the fighting, let us chill here and enjoy the view'"

Campaign AI not accepting ceasefires though on the brink of extinction? Those arrogant bastards don't deserve my pity, let's crush them.

I am a fan of TW since the first day of Shogun and there surely has been a fair amount of dissapointment regarding after-release-support, but hey, imho it's still one of the best games out there, one of the three games I would take to a deserted island ("what do you mean we have no electricity?!?").