I’ve been pretty much insta-buy on every dlc that came out since I started playing, starting with Taurox’s dlc, and this is the first one I’m gonna sit out I think.
Pricing for chorfs could at least be argued but the math for Shadows of Change pricing just doesn’t add up. Especially for other regions.
I’ve purchased every DLC and game, at release, since the original Total War: Warhammer in May 2016. This is the first DLC I am not buying because the value has completely dropped off.
To me, the series peaked sometime late in TW:WH2’s cycle. The third game has been fun in doses, but just hasn’t felt the same. It doesn’t keep me in “one more turn” mode. The majority of the battles wind up feeling like a chore instead of the highlight reels of your campaign map choices.
Thousands of hours in this series and I’m sad to see CA cap it off with a price gouge. So it goes…
Well I’m late to this one… but no. I completely missed the announcement because of Baldurs Gate 3 and Armored Core 6 and have zero interest in paying for a threadbare DLC at 50% the price of BG3 in AUD.
It looks like the price is off and the mediocre amount of new units and innovative faction mechanics can’t change that, but I see where the money for development went.
CA said multiple times in the past, that the quest battles take a lot of development time. That’s why they started recycling most of them for multiple factions in former DLC or have as few as possible. Imrik was a surprise back then with his dragon battles for free.
For this DLC they brought up 6 battles for Kislev, 4 for Cathay (haven’t played, no idea if is correct) and I don’t know how many for the changeling all over IE. That had to be a ton of work, but CA fails to understand, that most fans don’t give a duck about these battles. Instead, they should have created more units (lords/heroes) and better implement the factions into their race. I want to say though, that I enjoy the cinematics and change of objectives in contrast to the usual battles. Ostyanka and the changeling battles were fun until now. Looking forward to do the rest of the changeling and Yuan Bo battles at some point.
Kind regards, Kainsmasquerade
Nah, I skipped the chorfs and I’m gonna skip this one, too. I don’t see the value; I can buy two of these dlcs or buy almost an entire new game. Especially when the patching has been so infrequent and ineffective. I’ll probably reconsider if the patching changes, though, and buy it on sale down the line.
It makes me a little sad; I love Tzeentch and the Changeling campaign mechanics look cool. Even their YouTube partners that usually help a ton with marketing are revolting a bit on this one, though.
Patch-wise, I agree they need to do better. I kind of suspect this game has gradually grown too big for them to actually maintain properly. If they had been upfront and acknowledged their failure to properly fix the game, the community reaction might have been a bit better.
That statement they made came across more like “buy this so we can fix the content you already paid for” though.
