Edit: I admit my wording was leaning on the criminal side of grammer and I apologize for the wording. Let me rephrase what I said by your good grace to allow me. It does not sound like this choice was made be the Devs. To me david's confirmations sounded forced upon him and I just don't believe it when he said they would take too much for them to implement into the game.
Hey, I think they said there was going to be a fifth 'faction' being released into each of the races. This was to be decided by the community; I think the Black Templars would win. I could be wrong, but I heard that somewhere.
They would in fact that poll exists because of the outcry for them in the when the first four chapters were announced. People on Facebook and other sites who said anything about the BTs where being calmed down by the prospect that Black Templars would be a choice. I admit I was one of those people trying to calm others. I was under the expectation that they would be an obvious choice to add. Even in the Developers own forums its clear who the potential players want in here is the proof. http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/poll-what-should-be-the-fifth-playable-chapter.1757/ Are they going to tell one hundred seventy nine people that their choices are for nothing?