The series is beyond redemption at this point & without it tanking into the ground they won't learn their lesson.
Eventually a more passionate group of developers will make their own TW type game & implement all the things the fans have wanted since Shogun 2.
Throwing out an ultimatum and a threat to stop development and support on your product if you don't buy your DLC?!
Always a great way to sell your game. What could go wrong?
At least EA had the balls to flat out say "Don't buy our game then!", CA can't even muster the courage to be straight up with their opinion.
Creative Assembly is run by SEGA who know nothing about Total War. And the developers that made the good games left with Shogun 2, being done and even before that. I wish that they made up a new studio and started a similar game with the same skills & passion compared to current staff at CA & Total War.
2013 to 2023. From R2TW to W3TW. A decade of CA diligently showing us how to butcher one's own franchise. And no amount of pity will redeem the bots in the "fandom" who are still defending this shit show.
A company that threatens they will literally STOP DOING THEIR JOB in fixing a product you paid for! Because you won't cough up more money for them, for DLC that is over half the price of the actual fucking games original selling price?!? 150% INCREASE?!?
They say if you don't accept the price increases for DLC, this could potentially make them have to stop development on Warhammer III and even cancel full development of the Total War series. Are you serious? Are you seriously going to try and guilt trip your consumers & fans that you will loose your jobs and your franchise will cease to EXIST?!
If any of you are gullible enough that thinks that's true here's just a few basic facts about Creative Assembly.
Estimated Revenue & Valuation
Creative Assembly's estimated annual revenue is currently $248.9M per year.(i)
Creative Assembly's estimated revenue per employee is $305,355
Employee Data
Creative Assembly has 815 Employees.(i)
Creative Assembly grew their employee count by 8% last year.
Poor, poor CA! Having such hard times, however they will survive. Oh the humanity!
No, they're not going to go fucking under if you don't buy their DLC. They are a hundred million dollar company with steady revenue. Of course they are lying about increased costs. It's just pure corporate greed.
Creative Assembly has had 8% growth with $248.9M Revenue.
Shows all their profits from the previous Tax Year. They made £7 Million in profit. You not buying their overpriced DLC is not going to make Total War stop development on Warhammer III. They are lying and it is emotional blackmail.
Oh and just for the icing on the cake. No, they are not running out of money. In June. THIS YEAR IN 2023. Because amongst their rising costs, the actual fucking UK Government gave them extra funding to move on from their perch as a 'start up' company. Yeah.
Here is the official words from the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport:
"The UK video game sector is booming, and we're maximising its potential even further Today we've announced £5m extra funding for the UK Games Fund, which will help companies like CA Games go "from start-up to scale- up."
Creative Assembly was founded in 1987 and is the biggest Game Company in the UK. They are not a start up. Absolute scummy practices & borderline illegal.
Meanwhile No Man's Sky announced a new update recently after the already plethora of others before it, seven years after the release! Seven years during which they never charged their customer a single cent for any of their updates or events!
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The last good Total War game Creative Assembly released was Atilla.
After that it’s practices and development has gone down hill time & time again. Fuck you Creative Assembly, Fuck you Total War. Don’t buy their shit, don't accept their excuses, don't be threatened by their threats!
I've decided indefinitely to NEVER BUY another Total War game again.
Purely based on the fact how they have handled Warhammer 3 with as much grace. As a blind man with his arms switched round, in a Egg & Spoon race.
It's not acceptable. And you all should not be putting up with it anymore.
I hope Total War: Pharaoh sales plummet. Yes that Bronze Age, Troy reskinned game no one asked for. Which launched teasers and trailers with Troy game assets in it such as flags hoping no one would notice. I wouldn’t be surprised again if factions and features are behind another paywall. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if they make godly units because of all the Egyptian Gods too.
I hope the Warhammer 3 reviews keep getting worse. And I hope this is finally a fucking wake up call to Creative Assembly & Total War that we are sick and tired of their bullshit.
From terrible buggy releases. To updating decade old games like Shogun 2 and purposely removing features hoping fans don't notice. Some mods for Shogun 2 still to this day do not work or are a buggy mess because you moved the mods to your newer total war game launcher. (Hence why I haven't uploaded Fall of the Samurai in a while.) Mods I like just don't work now. They just don't.
Total war since Rome 2 can be described as using a rotting corpse as a puppet that will sometimes accidentally do something interesting, like having a tooth fall out. There's no going back to quality games without a complete rebuild.
I'm tired of it. The way you've handled this controversy and your whole series for the past 8 years since Atilla is the catalyst that I shouldn't buy any of your games indefinitely. I saw it from a mile away your practices will get gradually worse with your Warhammer Games. But fuck, this price stuff with Warhammer 3? Why would ANYONE want to further buy or play anything from you ever again after this?!
And let’s say it’s true. Let’s give CA the benefit of the doubt that they truly need us to give them our money for this DLC.
If they need to sell overpriced stuff to stay afloat then they deserve to drown.
This is just terrible financial management, and what gives a company the right to get away with it? While with a looming recession and financial crises on the way, small business’s have to file for bankruptcy? It’s not right! And their profits prove it’s just not true, at all! They are lying straight to your face!
My eyebrow will rise if Medieval III gets announced.
But with current Creative Assembly & Total War Staff and how they have handled the past 8 years, especially Warhammer III I'm 99% sure they will ruin it.
They will honestly ruin Medieval 3 if they do it with current business practices and decisions. Don't be surprised if they cut off parts of Europe behind paywalls and factions at £15 each. Just play the Mod Medieval Kingdoms 1212ad mod for Atilla. Essentially Medieval 3 and infinitely better than anything current CA & TW could ever dream of producing. A mod with development & updates done by fans who actually care about what they are making.
Only real way of enjoying the glory of Total War now, is their older titles which they put a lot more care, thought & love into. Which they are now sadly removing content from with updates. Chat feature? Gone. Modding? Gone or updated to not work. Even on purposely changing game file names to mess with Modders.
A better part of a decade after it's release they rebranded the Fall of the Samurai as a "saga" game and more than doubled its price. Seems even the older games aren't immune from some of their fuckery now. They have increased prices for all of their older titles.
So if you wanna experience their games that are far more polished and historically accurate and have better features. You now have to cough up more money for their greed too!
The only real way of capturing that same passion is through the potential in Indie developers.
I know Manor Lords is not 100% based on Combat. But that game has so much more structure, love & care put into it compared to any Total War since Atilla.
I'm never buying another Total War title ever again. SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!
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My opinion on Creative Assembly's / Total War's official response to the price controversy for their Warhammer 3 DLC.
Their response here: www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/15tocnj/ca_resp…
Honestly, let it die.
The series is beyond redemption at this point & without it tanking into the ground they won't learn their lesson.
Eventually a more passionate group of developers will make their own TW type game & implement all the things the fans have wanted since Shogun 2.
Throwing out an ultimatum and a threat to stop development and support on your product if you don't buy your DLC?!
Always a great way to sell your game. What could go wrong? At least EA had the balls to flat out say "Don't buy our game then!", CA can't even muster the courage to be straight up with their opinion.
Creative Assembly is run by SEGA who know nothing about Total War. And the developers that made the good games left with Shogun 2, being done and even before that. I wish that they made up a new studio and started a similar game with the same skills & passion compared to current staff at CA & Total War.
2013 to 2023. From R2TW to W3TW. A decade of CA diligently showing us how to butcher one's own franchise. And no amount of pity will redeem the bots in the "fandom" who are still defending this shit show.
A company that threatens they will literally STOP DOING THEIR JOB in fixing a product you paid for! Because you won't cough up more money for them, for DLC that is over half the price of the actual fucking games original selling price?!? 150% INCREASE?!?
They say if you don't accept the price increases for DLC, this could potentially make them have to stop development on Warhammer III and even cancel full development of the Total War series. Are you serious? Are you seriously going to try and guilt trip your consumers & fans that you will loose your jobs and your franchise will cease to EXIST?!
If any of you are gullible enough that thinks that's true here's just a few basic facts about Creative Assembly.
Estimated Revenue & Valuation
Creative Assembly's estimated annual revenue is currently $248.9M per year.(i)
Creative Assembly's estimated revenue per employee is $305,355
Employee Data
Creative Assembly has 815 Employees.(i)
Creative Assembly grew their employee count by 8% last year.
Poor, poor CA! Having such hard times, however they will survive. Oh the humanity!
No, they're not going to go fucking under if you don't buy their DLC. They are a hundred million dollar company with steady revenue. Of course they are lying about increased costs. It's just pure corporate greed.
Creative Assembly has had 8% growth with $248.9M Revenue.
Source: growjo.com/company/Creative_Assembly
Check page 18 on the Full Accounts PDF in this 2nd link here: find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk…
Shows all their profits from the previous Tax Year. They made £7 Million in profit. You not buying their overpriced DLC is not going to make Total War stop development on Warhammer III. They are lying and it is emotional blackmail.
Oh and just for the icing on the cake. No, they are not running out of money. In June. THIS YEAR IN 2023. Because amongst their rising costs, the actual fucking UK Government gave them extra funding to move on from their perch as a 'start up' company. Yeah.
Here is the official words from the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport:
"The UK video game sector is booming, and we're maximising its potential even further
Today we've announced £5m extra funding for the UK Games Fund, which will help companies like CA Games go "from start-up to scale- up."
Creative Assembly was founded in 1987 and is the biggest Game Company in the UK. They are not a start up. Absolute scummy practices & borderline illegal.
Meanwhile No Man's Sky announced a new update recently after the already plethora of others before it, seven years after the release! Seven years during which they never charged their customer a single cent for any of their updates or events!
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. The last good Total War game Creative Assembly released was Atilla. After that it’s practices and development has gone down hill time & time again. Fuck you Creative Assembly, Fuck you Total War. Don’t buy their shit, don't accept their excuses, don't be threatened by their threats!
I've decided indefinitely to NEVER BUY another Total War game again. Purely based on the fact how they have handled Warhammer 3 with as much grace. As a blind man with his arms switched round, in a Egg & Spoon race.
It's not acceptable. And you all should not be putting up with it anymore.
I hope Total War: Pharaoh sales plummet. Yes that Bronze Age, Troy reskinned game no one asked for. Which launched teasers and trailers with Troy game assets in it such as flags hoping no one would notice. I wouldn’t be surprised again if factions and features are behind another paywall. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if they make godly units because of all the Egyptian Gods too.
I hope the Warhammer 3 reviews keep getting worse. And I hope this is finally a fucking wake up call to Creative Assembly & Total War that we are sick and tired of their bullshit.
From terrible buggy releases. To updating decade old games like Shogun 2 and purposely removing features hoping fans don't notice. Some mods for Shogun 2 still to this day do not work or are a buggy mess because you moved the mods to your newer total war game launcher. (Hence why I haven't uploaded Fall of the Samurai in a while.) Mods I like just don't work now. They just don't.
Total war since Rome 2 can be described as using a rotting corpse as a puppet that will sometimes accidentally do something interesting, like having a tooth fall out. There's no going back to quality games without a complete rebuild.
I'm tired of it. The way you've handled this controversy and your whole series for the past 8 years since Atilla is the catalyst that I shouldn't buy any of your games indefinitely. I saw it from a mile away your practices will get gradually worse with your Warhammer Games. But fuck, this price stuff with Warhammer 3? Why would ANYONE want to further buy or play anything from you ever again after this?!
And let’s say it’s true. Let’s give CA the benefit of the doubt that they truly need us to give them our money for this DLC.
If they need to sell overpriced stuff to stay afloat then they deserve to drown.
This is just terrible financial management, and what gives a company the right to get away with it? While with a looming recession and financial crises on the way, small business’s have to file for bankruptcy? It’s not right! And their profits prove it’s just not true, at all! They are lying straight to your face!
My eyebrow will rise if Medieval III gets announced. But with current Creative Assembly & Total War Staff and how they have handled the past 8 years, especially Warhammer III I'm 99% sure they will ruin it.
They will honestly ruin Medieval 3 if they do it with current business practices and decisions. Don't be surprised if they cut off parts of Europe behind paywalls and factions at £15 each. Just play the Mod Medieval Kingdoms 1212ad mod for Atilla. Essentially Medieval 3 and infinitely better than anything current CA & TW could ever dream of producing. A mod with development & updates done by fans who actually care about what they are making.
Only real way of enjoying the glory of Total War now, is their older titles which they put a lot more care, thought & love into. Which they are now sadly removing content from with updates. Chat feature? Gone. Modding? Gone or updated to not work. Even on purposely changing game file names to mess with Modders.
A better part of a decade after it's release they rebranded the Fall of the Samurai as a "saga" game and more than doubled its price. Seems even the older games aren't immune from some of their fuckery now. They have increased prices for all of their older titles.
So if you wanna experience their games that are far more polished and historically accurate and have better features. You now have to cough up more money for their greed too!
The only real way of capturing that same passion is through the potential in Indie developers. I know Manor Lords is not 100% based on Combat. But that game has so much more structure, love & care put into it compared to any Total War since Atilla.
I'm never buying another Total War title ever again. SHAMEFUL DISPLAY!
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