Not so long ago, the Creative Assembly studio was caught in a new scandal. At the beginning of August, the developers announced the addition Shadows of change for Total War: Warhammer 3, which immediately caused public unrest. The reason was an unreasonably expensive price tag: for 3 gentlemen and 11 units, the authors ask $ 25 (2350 rubles). After that, recent reviews for the main game plummeted “mostly negative”.
Today, Creative Assembly released an official statement, talking about the pricing policy. Product head Rob Bartholomew said the studio hadn’t touched product pricing for a long time, but increased costs forced plans to be revised.
Now is not the right time to raise prices, and this was not a frivolous act. However, that is the business reality of supporting Warhammer 3 and ensuring we can provide the additional years of content that are currently planned.
Judging by the official r/totalwar subreddit, fans weren’t happy with this explanation. The entire feed is full of angry messages criticizing the developers, and many players are urging them not to buy any DLC.
“Somehow shameless to say that three lords and a handful of new units cost 50% of the cost of the base game”-KultofEnnui.
“If you can’t offer a small amount of this kind of content at a reasonable price that people are willing to pay, maybe you need to rethink and streamline your processes.”– mage_irl.
“You don’t understand, CA is a small indie company”– Memory of blue.
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Source: VG Times