I just think even us fans are wary because of past experience. It's really interesting, unique and fun to play when it works. I don't mean to be so hard on the series. They pretty much said sorry we don't have to fix it and left it at that. Impossible to play multiplayer via internet, out of sync all the time on LAN.
I played the original The Guild, not 2, which was advertised as multiplayer. And while I play games all the time with bugs, i wanna see that JoWood/RuneForge actually intends on and can fix them. The only thing stopping me from getting this is some of the bugs that are popping up. I know it's in the original game and I think pirates has a tutorial too. It was kind of silly of them not to include the tutorial. It is stand-alone, you don't need anything else to play it, and it isn't added to the original campaign. Yeah I am not sure why they keep calling it an add-on.