2023 was rough, but there are reasons for optimism.
Dedicated fandom has two states: cultishly devoted or aggressively cynical. So here's something that Total War: Warhammer's more jaded fans sometimes have trouble admitting: even if Creative Assembly was to Doomrocket the entire franchise tomorrow, it would still have long ago earned its place in strategy game history as an all-timer. The most recent series sales figures sit somewhere around 40 million, and it rarely slips out of Steam's top 100.
It wasn't quite as entertaining in action as it was in concept, though. Many of the Changeling's faction abilities work by subverting or twisting the rules to comical degrees. Design-wise, it feels lethargic: an admission that, after three games, the basics have been stretched so much that the only way forward is to break them. Faction diversity in a strategy game is all about offering new riffs on a core ruleset, sure.
While not technically a live service game, the trilogy's longevity and fluidity means it flies close to the live service sun at times. A monkey's paw in terms of relevance and novelty vs fan expectations and dev load, for sure, but I don't believe Creative Assembly has done much to disabuse the player base of the notion that they should expect regular iteration, especially as they're effectively being charged a piecemeal subscription fee for the journey.
As I said, we whinge because we care. Like everyone in the games industry at this point, Creative Assembly deserves a long break. And yes, it's already gone above and beyond many times over the trilogy's lifecycle. It once gave everyone a free dwarf voiced by Brian Blessed. None of this changes the unfortunate reality; the next updates are going to have to be something special if this thing doesn't want to go out on the same sour note as the tabletop Warhammer Fantasy.
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