Total War team announces changes for Warhammer 3 and Pharaoh’s roadmap

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Creative Assembly, and specifically the Total War leadership team, posted a lengthy message to the series’ community today recognizing their own missteps while promising adjustments and course corrections, especially in regards to Total War: Pharaoh and Total War: Warhammer 3.

I’m a fan of the Total War series and Warhammer 3 in particular, but I’m clearly out of the loop. I checked into what caused this and, wow, it’s quite the beehive. In terms of Pharaoh, the game has largely been seen as not really iterating on the series and generally being disappointing overall. For Total War: Warhammer 3, a lot of discontent has been brewing under the pricing scheme for the game’s terrifyingly abundant content packs.

However, with Warhammer, it seemed to come to a head in October when Creative Assembly posted “Moderation Guidelines” in the Steam discussion board, which included such galling statements as the frequently quoted “The right to discuss is a privilege—it is not an entitlement you earn by playing the game.” Look, I get it. The Steam discussion boards are a horrible cesspit that will quickly cause you to lose all faith in humanity’s continued survival, but that statement is aggressively dismissive and offensively false.

In order to actually address—rather than dismiss—criticism, the team promises a free update to the Shadows of Change expansion to make its consent more meaningful and perhaps worth the price. They acknowledge that they “failed to meet your expectations of what a DLC should be” and are looking to address this. The update for the expansion is expected in February 2024, but they say, “That launch date is our ambition, but this isn’t concrete.”

Because of this, Thrones of Decay, which was supposed to launch in