Sadly - putting games out for most companies is mostly (if not only) about what you can sell. I'll be suprised, actually, if E:TW is anything more than new skins, new map, new cities with a couple of obligatory new features for the reviewers to overhype.

I realise that I'm old enough to be a cynic - but they've had now 4 opportunities (If you count the BI and Kindoms expansions) and quite a few years to work on diplomacy, AI and other not so great features and have left those things relatively untouched while spending most of their time tarting up the game.

I'll buy it - to give them development money playing the longshot that one day they'll actually produce a reworked AI but, like M2TW, I'll be waiting for an EB or other quality mod to actually play it.