The developers want to make more money, so they will add new factions in the expansions because the trick they pulled with the "Heroes Chronicles" series probably won't work now. I've already expressed my opinion about the graphics. It might be ugly and outdated, but the game itself is simply excellent. It's like the second Heroes of Might and Magic and the second part of that game that I keep mentioning. Although, maybe we have different ideas about what that word means. For me, "graphics" is about how advanced the image is, how many colors, what resolution, what 3D, how detailed the models are... But all of that is secondary to me. I'm often more interested in the design of creatures, locations, and buildings than in the actual plot. And I like archers. And fast, unyielding troops. What I don't like are fat, slow units with weak damage, the kind that are neither good for us nor for the enemy. But that's a matter of taste and tactics.