CA_Freeman#8033

CA_Freeman#8033

6 months ago Apr 04,2024, 14:00:31 PM

Looking Ahead to WARHAMMER III: Thrones of Decay

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Hey folks,


With the full reveal of Thrones of Decay starting next week and continuing through April, I wanted to talk with you all about some pricing changes that we’re making for this DLC that we thought would be good to share ahead of our usual reveal business.


Before we get to that, let me quickly say thank you for the reception you gave to our updated Shadows of Change.


When we first launched, we got it wrong, but you gave us the chance to help address that and all of us across Total War were grateful for how warmly you embraced the new content that we added. We hope that decisions like this help to demonstrate our commitment to improving the relationship that we share with you, and we appreciate that actions continue to speak louder than words.


You may have seen the news from SEGA last week of potential changes happening to our teams here at Creative Assembly. No matter the outcome of these changes we will still be a team who love making content for Total War: WARHAMMER III and we hope that continues to shine as we move forward with the project with even more all-new content.


Onto the news we have for you today. We are making a one-time change to the way in which we’ll release Thrones of Decay, and all of us felt that we should talk about that openly with you all before we kick things off.


As announced last year, Thrones of Decay welcomes all-new content for the Empire, Dwarfs and Nurgle, and we’re happy to reveal that each faction's new content will be available to purchase either as a bundle, or on an individual basis i.e. if you only want to play as the Empire, you can buy this section of the DLC as a standalone purchase rather than having to buy everything, allowing you to pick and choose what you want to play. Here's how it'll work:


  • Thrones of Decay will be available to buy as a complete bundle at a discounted rate of $22.92/£19.10/€22.92.
  • Each individual pack will be available to purchase for $8.99/£7.49/€8.99 per pack.
  • If you purchase the packs individually on Steam, you’ll receive a 15% discount on the remaining packs when you complete your collection.


Back when we got started with production on Thrones of Decay close to a year ago, we had envisioned shipping this as one big package just like we did with Shadows of Change, and after talking with many of you these past few months we recognise that these large sized, higher priced packs aren’t always what you’re looking for. So, we’ve decided to do something different just for Thrones, and used this extra time to help show that we were listening to what you had to say.


This is a new approach for us, and something that we’ll have plenty to learn about as we do it, but we think it’s the right approach and something that we feel we can do in response to the pricing changes that we brought in late last year. Giving you more choices about the ways in which you can access all-new content is important to us, and we’re keen to listen in on the conversations that will rise from the back of this news.


We’re already deep into pre-production on our future DLC post-Thrones of Decay, and the current intent is to avoid creating something quite so big in scope so that we can help to keep both the value, and the price right for you.


Speaking of the future, we’ve also been hard at work these last few months re-aligning our vision of what’s yet to come for WARHAMMER III, and as promised back in December, we’ll be back to chat more with you all about where we go next a little while after we launch Thrones of Decay.


In the meantime, we’re looking forward to revealing this new DLC for you next week, and keen to listen in on what you have to say about today's news. Please do join us over on the Total War Discord, or the Total War Forums to share your thoughts - we always appreciate it when you do!


Thanks for reading, we’ll be back early next week with more.


Adam Freeman

Head of Community – Total War

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:04:49 PM
CA_Freeman#8033 wrote:
As announced last year, Thrones of Decay welcomes all-new content for the Empire, Dwarfs and Nurgle, and we’re happy to reveal that each faction's new content will be available to purchase either as a bundle, or on an individual basis i.e. if you only want to play as the Empire, you can buy this section of the DLC as a standalone purchase rather than having to buy everything, allowing you to pick and choose what you want to play.

So I won't have to buy any future Cathay or High Elves content? Thanks, CA.

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:05:31 PM

Really fascinating way of handling it.


I'm going to buy the full thing every time, though. The DLC's for TW WH have all been A+ quality at bare minimum.

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:08:47 PM
SerPus#7395 wrote:
CA_Freeman#8033 wrote:
As announced last year, Thrones of Decay welcomes all-new content for the Empire, Dwarfs and Nurgle, and we’re happy to reveal that each faction's new content will be available to purchase either as a bundle, or on an individual basis i.e. if you only want to play as the Empire, you can buy this section of the DLC as a standalone purchase rather than having to buy everything, allowing you to pick and choose what you want to play.

So I won't have to buy any future Cathay or High Elves content? Thanks, CA.

Just don't get upset when Tyrion butchers you with his new toys!

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:08:56 PM

"...and after talking with many of you these past few months we recognise that these large sized, higher priced packs aren’t always what you’re looking for. "


The higher priced packs weren't the issue, it was that it was higher priced AND less value.

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:10:40 PM
SerPus#7395 wrote:
CA_Freeman#8033 wrote:
As announced last year, Thrones of Decay welcomes all-new content for the Empire, Dwarfs and Nurgle, and we’re happy to reveal that each faction's new content will be available to purchase either as a bundle, or on an individual basis i.e. if you only want to play as the Empire, you can buy this section of the DLC as a standalone purchase rather than having to buy everything, allowing you to pick and choose what you want to play.

So I won't have to buy any future Cathay or High Elves content? Thanks, CA.

Don't worry.  I'll be buying them. And ignoring Nurgle.  Which I imagine you'll be getting based on uname!

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:11:30 PM

Finally some news, a discount and a new way to buy content, they are making some efforts. 


We will see if the rest follows the expectations of the community :)

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:11:59 PM

unexpected, I always through the packaging of many more races into one was a good money making method.

making packs more artificially expencive by adding races that some players don't care about but still having to buy the full pack

I'm even more curious about thrones of delay now

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:13:59 PM

I mean... its an interesting new approach and a very smart way to sell big DLCs... but this is only going to be for ToD. 

By the looks of it, the future DLCs will be definitely smaller in scope and content, and not in line with the amount of stuff ToD and SoC brought. I am genuinely bummed.

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:14:28 PM
Biggles#4266 wrote:

Just don't get upset when Tyrion butchers you with his new toys!

Upset? I'll be happy if AI finally manage to do anything at all.

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:15:46 PM
CA_Freeman#8033 wrote:
Speaking of the future, we’ve also been hard at work these last few months re-aligning our vision of what’s yet to come for WARHAMMER III

I'm guessing that you're going to give up on the three faction lord packs ? Might be for the best really, I worry this is a bit too much work for your team and the patches suffer because of that.


Anyway those pricing changes are great.

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:16:50 PM

I wish they've made something similar for some older DLC especially CoC DLC. I hate Nurgle and Slaanesh, I don't want DLC for them, why can't I buy just Khorne and Tzeentch part of the DLC?

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:16:55 PM

Very consumer friendly decision and makes me more likely to part with money, so thanks for that.


Thanks too for communicating it up front.

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:17:32 PM

It would be nice to block some of the content you don't own from the game as well. If the mole people get something stupid, like airships, it would be helpful to ensure that this crap doesn't ruin your campaigns in the hands of the AI.


I still hope these individual packs are carefully thought out. Didn't the Game 2 lord packs cost £8ish? and they gave you two lords with units and generally unique mechanics. If the ToD packs cost almost £8 each and don't include unique and interesting mechanics, that is a helluva price lift!

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:17:57 PM

This is good i think, even though i will buy it as a bundle but the individual packs are pretty cool thing, just for some people who don't want to play that faction at all, or simply don't have enough to buy the whole thing and want to get piece by piece eventually.
Cant wait to see what this DLC has to offer - especially for papa nurgle faction

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:18:31 PM

hum, seems cheaper to buy 1 pack and others that the full bundle after the discount timeframe


you say the full bundle is 22,92€ with discount (i guess the pre order discount), so it's probably 24,99€


So the 8,99€ are not discounted (it seems ?)


So with 15% off on the other, it's 8,99+7,64+7,64 = 24,27€


So 0,62€ cheaper than the full bundle after preorder discount

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:20:07 PM
torak8988#3885 wrote:

unexpected, I always through the packaging of many more races into one was a good money making method.

making packs more artificially expencive by adding races that some players don't care about but still having to buy the full pack

I'm even more curious about thrones of delay now

I imagine it is, but a 25 dollar dlc is pretty steep, as that's almost like an expansion pack.

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6 months ago
Apr 4, 2024, 2:22:42 PM

This is both good and really bad. The good news is only having to buy what you want, but the bad news stinks.


By reducing the combined cost to less than 23€, you are already admitting, that ToD won’t have the content to be worth 25 bucks.

Considering this is likely the last dlc for one of the races involved, it doesn’t leave a good first impression. 

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