It seems funny that the basis of this thread is "don't bash CA - instead bash SEGA".

SEGA have everty right to try and protect their property (note this is NOT an excuse for Securom or whatever) and they have a right to try and make money off their games.

Thus they pressure CA to get a job done and as none of us are in the loop we have no idea if it is SEGA giving impossible deadlines or CA draggin feet in getting a quality product out. Who knows.

All I know is there would not be a "SecuROM" issue if the Kingdoms expansion was terrible. No one would buy it. End of problem.

In the same way if SEGA/CA waited untill the product was totally bug free (impossible?) before release then it would probably go bankrupt.

As for gameplay... if you think the AI sucks then go play "Battles of Rome" game. That sucks.