Total War Warhammer 3 DLC faces backlash over high asking price
Total War Warhammer 3 DLC Shadows of Change is causing a rift among the game’s community, with many players, YouTubers, and even a former Warhammer producer at Games Workshop offering their thoughts on the expansion’s price point. The DLC brings three new lords to the vast strategy game and its epic Immortal Empires campaign mode, but the Total War Warhammer 3 update is proving too pricey for many.
Total War Warhammer 3 Shadows of Change releases August 31, 2023 and is priced at $24.99 / £19.99, although it is on sale for 10% off until September 7 as a launch promotion. That puts it at around 40% of the price of the base game. It does match the cost of the recent Chaos Dwarfs DLC but, as our Total War Warhammer 3 Chaos Dwarfs review notes, that package introduces an entirely new race and is substantially more robust in its offering.
By comparison, past packs have included Champions of Chaos, which adds four playable lords and is priced at $15.99 / £12.99. In the previous two games in the series, lords packs typically included a pair of paid lords (priced at $8.99 / £6.99 for the first game, and $9.99 / £7.99 for the second), with a third lord made available as free downloadable content alongside each of the major releases.
This pricing change has caused an eruption on the game’s Discord and Reddit. Several of the most upvoted threads this week address the topic directly, while others make jokes about the situation. One commenter discusses the above point that the Total War Warhammer 2 packs did include three lords, albeit one as a free inclusion, remarking, “All you are getting additionally over what you got in WH2 is a few more units. Does not justify the price increase.”
Another user simply states, “I have no
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