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You're all going to downvote me for this, but review bombing them and calling for boycotts because they raised their prices is fucking bullshit.
The worst part of this is that this is directly from the "fans" of the game who will spend hundreds of hours playing this thing and yet see no value in the work by the developers. If it's too expensive for you, don't buy it and move on. Get over yourselves.
(and don't come in here and say some bullshit about it just being DL-fucking-C. It still takes work, and it still has value or you wouldn't be whining so much about wanting it so bad.)
(and to be perfectly clear, as you'll probably tell from below, I was a game developer, but I wasn't a dev on this game. I did, however, work on a similarly niche fan-base game and did many crunches and DLCs)
As a group, you'll lament the treatment of developers (the people) and how they shouldn't be laid off, and shouldn't be overworked, and they should hire more QA, and studios shouldn't be closing blah blah fucking blah.
Then you'll all turn around and scream at those same developers because there are bugs, and the game isn't what you wanted, and you'll call them lazy, and incompetent and you'll tell them they don't deserve to live or at the very least even have that overworked, underpaid job they've toiled at for the past x years.
Then the Developers (the business) will do something like (jeebus forbid) raise their prices, trying to make enough money to hire more developers to make better games, or pay their workers so they're not underpaid, or hire more so they don't have to overwork the rest, or as is happening more and more, avoid shutting down completely.
I wish every gamer had to work through crunch on at least one game (or even DLC) and see the amount of work and passion and skill goes into making games. Because right now, you (as a group) seem to think there's no value in the work to make that product you brag about spending hundreds of hours playing. Go get a job in the game industry, if it's so easy, so you can see the value in the product (and afford to buy it, or at least know not to be a yappy little bitch about the price.)
My issue is that the price raises don’t go to more devs or even better conditions for existing devs. They go towards the execs vacation home and another Ferrari.
That said I’ve bought everything for the tw:wh series and pretty much everything total war in general over the last 20 years, I’m a fan of the series and love creative assembly’s games. I’m fine with price increases so long as it results in a better product, I think a lot of the recent complaints have been rooted in price increases have happened but there’s been no improvement, if anything there’s been decline in quality. The last tw:wh3 dlc was meh for many though I’ve enjoyed it so far, and the latest game tw:pharaoh appears to be dead on arrival.
Again, I have no issue with price increases, I’m familiar with how business works, but there needs to be give and take, we pay more, we want at least the same quality as before.
These "protests" do nothing against the execs and their Ferraris.
They directly harm the developers though.
That's literally true of ALL action against the company, though... The devs don't have power to magically pay themselves more when the company sees a windfall. The execs do.
Saying, "this will hurt the devs" when attacking the company is worse than useless rhetoric that's simply wrong. It is NOT TRUE because it is not a unique attribute of this situation... They get fucked 24/7. Saying they'll get fucked more is basic fear mongering tripe.
This isn't attacking the company though. It's attacking a single game and the company/publisher will just roll on through.