Agreed, but HB are on good terms with EA on other projects, I'm sure EA would possibly say "You've made this a viable product and thats what we were concerned about, so maybe we can work something out again". I'm hoping it'd be something more like that, should something happen.

My biggest point in that post was that there are plenty of moaners now wanting this game to have everything, who are acting all surprised that it's the re-start to the franchise and that we need to support it if we want a future. I definitely get the impression that some are thinking that both EA and HB have been rolling around on a mountain of Rugby game money and cackling with glee.

If the game-plays rock solid I'm going to try and buy any and all DLC on top of that to make it worthwhile. As long as they try not to do a codemasters and screw people out of decent patch-work to any big game-play holes as in their cricket franchise.