well with considering the fact that patch 1.3 is nothing not even including unit balancing i'm not in the least suprised. although i stopped playing rome after a couple of months and never bought any of the expansions at least they kept patching itand the comunity seemed satisfied with v1.5 (or whatever it ended at). but now even that trend has stopped. building an expansion that wasnt compatible with the original signalled the end of any patching to me.

although i would love to buy kingdoms i wont due to securom. its funny cos without securom CA would already have my money :)

i guess it will beack to waiting for the buglist and patch info before i spend my money on ETW (asuming ther is no securom and the likes to contend with)