Bad timing on Gold?

[ghoti221]

I don't know what to think about SEIV Gold. I love SEIV, but I don't know if I love it enough to pay the shipping and the exchange rate again to have essentially the same game shipped to me here in Canada. Let's face it, there's a lot of extra bells and whistles in the Gold edition, but there's no indication of anything that will force me to completely approach the game in a new way. (e.g. Mongol Invasions expansion for Shogun Total War). So, it definitely isn't a "must buy."

And I had also planned to take a long look at MOO3 as well.

On a different note: the timing of the announcement is also bad -- why would I buy SEIV for Christmas, if I knew a new Version was coming out in two months? Shrapnel Games may have shot themselves in the foot over this...