I hate to state the obvious but CA really should have released a small but simple 'day zero' patch that fixed the horrendous passive AI bug and any other issues which were identified and fixed immediately after the game went gold. Obviously there are a slew of other issues which also require fixing but the passive AI bug is a real show stopper in my book; it effectively halted my desire to play the game! Personally I think waiting nearly a month to issue a patch that fixes a major bug which was identified and fixed prior to the game being released is taking a serious risk with one's reputation. In the time that has passed since the game was released the TW community is clearly up in arms over that single bug, I've lost count of the number of posts made by newbies complaining about it on the official and unofficial forums. Releasing a small patch immediately upon release would have gone a long way to control the number of bug related complaints.

Anyway it seems that CA and Sega prefer to issue a few large, all encompassing patches instead of several smaller ones over the same period of time.