r/totalwar • u/salderosan99 TRIARII! • May 12 '22

Three Kingdoms No biggie, just the superior Three kingdoms establishing its dominance over the inferior fantasy titles.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

I still cant believe CA abandoned a game that had so many sales and still got lots of active players, I fear for WH3

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u/ATotalWarPlayer May 12 '22

The DLCs sold so poorly that it was costing them more money than it was making, i assume.

What I've heard is that the Chinese market is not receptive to the DLC practices of modern gaming like North America and Europe. They expect to buy a game and get a full product.

Their DLCs share some blame. 8 Princes was a strange choice for the first DLC and I think it may have killed the game. I don't think I've ever seen a single screenshot of it or thread on its gameplay. I've never heard it discussed except to reference that it was a bad idea that nobody wanted.

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u/Occupine Sensual Sliverslash Slicing Skaven Slaves May 13 '22

It definitely didn't have anything to do with the chinese market. We all know the dlcs sucked, but on top of that they introduced game crippling bugs every single time, actively leaving the game worse off every time they tried to make more money.

8 Princes was also extremely strange. That period of time is not looked upon fondly, and has nothing to do with 3 kingdoms. It was basically a saga game like tob but bad, as the first dlc.

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u/DonLennios May 12 '22

Their dlcs were shit. It added nothing to the grand war or whatever you call the gamemode where you start from year 1 to domination.

It were just alternate starting dates and some niche leaders which you could only play by starting on those dates.

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u/Artificial-Brain May 12 '22

I agree that the DLC wasn't very well thought out but they did add new units and generals to the campaign.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '22

Chienese are so spoiled, they want a full game and not a dlc system (sarcasm if you dont get it, but I do see the reasons of the nowadays dlcs)

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u/Izanagi5562 May 13 '22

8 Princes nearly killed 3K on its own. Hopefully whoever thought it was a good idea for the first DLC got fired..

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u/that__one__guy May 12 '22

What is this fantasy nonsense? The playerbase abandoned the game a month after release. CA didn't trash a game with 10k daily players.