CA 在创作者群里发的公告

英文原文：

Hello everyone! Sharing a message from Creative Assembly regarding the recent pricing discussions surrounding the Total war DLC:

Hi everyone. I'm Rob Bartholomew, Chief Product Officer here at Creative Assembly.

First off, I'd like to thank you for making your voices heard over the past week. Hopefully longer-term Total War fans know that even when we're quiet, we're always listening to everything you have to say to us. We've had many converstations about it internally and would like to shed some light on the situation.

Last week, we revealed the latest DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER 3 - Shadow of Change, bring the Changeling, Yuan Bo, Mother Ostankya and more to the game. The teams have been hard at work on this for some time and we are excited for you to get your hands on it. 

To get right into it: our costs are up. Unfortunately, that means that prices have to rise. We know any increase is going to be tough, which is why our prices have remained fairly stable over the past few years. The downside is that any increase today is going to be more noticeable. 

There's no good time to increase prices, and we have not taken this step lightly. However, this is the business reality of supporting WARHAMMER 3 and ensuring we're able to offer the years of extrea content that are currently planned. 

That said, we do need to challenge ourselves to ensure that this cost still offers good value. Ultimately, that's up to each of you to decide and we'll keep trying to balance that. Of course, we want more people to play, we want to continue to deliver content you're excited to see, and we want to do that for as long as we can. 

To share more on WARHAMMER 3 spcifically, here is an update from Rich Aldridge, Senior Game Director:

| With Shadow of Change, we wanted to somewhat break the mould of past DLCs to ensure we could bring you as much content variety as possible. You all have your favourite lords, heros and races to play, and restricting our products to a single race or faction hasn't always met your expectations. We also hoped this would improve the pace at which we're able to get content to you, which has been a challenge. 

I'm really excited by what we've created in Shadows of Change and Update4.0. The Changeling plays like no other in the series. Scheming and tricking your enemies into conlict with one another whilst leeching off other settlements feels great and we really hope it opens up new gameplay opportunities.

I'm equally itching to see how you get on with Yuan Bo the Jade Dragon and Mother Ostankya, two new characters for the series and Warhammer world, both of whom have their own agendas and are ruthless in their actions. 

Talking of the patch, it offers a host of fixes as you might expect, including Nakai one again being able to use his Kroxigors, Bretonnian vows are progressing correctly in campaign for Damsels, ranged units no longer running headfirst into melee when out of ammo, and Cathay Legendary Lords now having magical items. But that's just a few of the changes. Look out for full path notes closer to realse. 

To wrap up, I can't stress enough how much the team and I want the best for the game, and to provide you with fun and memorable experiences. Changing the content formula, and making other improvements behind the scenes, is designed to help us to do exactly that. We'll keep assessing and iterating as we stay on this path.

Thanks as always for your support and voicing your concerns. Both are important to us. I hope you enjoy Shadows of Change once it's in your hands. 

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So, to recap - we know this is a tough changes for some of our players. We know this may mean some of you wait for future discounts or sales. And we know that this explanation does not make the situation any easier. But it's important for you to hear from us and we hope that, if nothing else, this helps clarify why this decision has been made. 

Finally we need to ask you again to stop directing abuse at individual team members. Frustrated as you may get, these are human beings who spend many hours representling you and your voices within the studio. All of our work gets easier when they are treated with respect.

- Rob Bartholomew, Chief Product Officer, Creative Assembly. 

中文翻译：

大家好！ 分享来自 Creative Assembly 的有关近期围绕《全面战争 DLC》定价讨论的消息：

大家好。 我是 Rob Bartholomew，Creative Assembly 的首席产品官。

首先，我要感谢你们在过去一周发出的声音。 希望《全面战争》的长期粉丝知道，即使我们很安静，我们也会一直倾听你们对我们说的一切。 我们内部对此进行了多次对话，希望了解一些情况。

上周，我们发布了《全面战争：战锤 3》的最新 DLC - 变换灵，将变形灵、元伯、奥斯坦基亚等角色带到了游戏中。 一段时间以来，团队一直在努力解决这个问题，我们很高兴您能亲自使用它。

直接说吧：我们的成本增加了。 不幸的是，这意味着价格必须上涨。 我们知道任何上涨都会很艰难，这就是为什么我们的价格在过去几年中保持相当稳定的原因。 缺点是今天的任何增加都会更加明显。

现在不是提价的好时机，我们也没有轻易采取这一步。 然而，这就是支持《战锤 3》并确保我们能够提供当前计划的多年额外内容的商业现实。

也就是说，我们确实需要挑战自己，以确保这笔成本仍然具有良好的价值。 最终，这取决于你们每个人的决定，我们将继续努力平衡这一点。 当然，我们希望有更多的人来玩，我们希望继续提供您感兴趣的内容，并且我们希望尽可能长时间地这样做。

为了具体分享有关《战锤 3》的更多信息，请参阅高级游戏总监 Rich Aldridge 的更新：

| 在《Shadow of Change》中，我们希望在某种程度上打破过去 DLC 的模式，以确保我们能够为您带来尽可能多的内容多样性。 你们都有自己最喜欢的领主、英雄和种族可以玩，而将我们的产品限制在单一种族或派系并不总能满足您的期望。 我们还希望这能够加快我们向您提供内容的速度，这一直是一个挑战。

我对我们在 Shadows of Change 和 Update4.0 中创建的内容感到非常兴奋。 换生灵的玩法与该系列中的其他人截然不同。 策划和欺骗你的敌人相互冲突，同时从其他定居点中获取利益，这种感觉很棒，我们真的希望它能开辟新的游戏机会。

我同样渴望看到你与玉龙元波和奥斯坦基亚妈妈相处得如何，这两个系列和战锤世界的新角色，他们都有自己的议程，而且行为冷酷无情。

说到补丁，它提供了一系列你可能期望的修复，包括 Nakai 再次能够使用他的巨蜥，巴托尼亚誓言在少女战役中正确进展，远程单位在弹药耗尽时不再陷入近战， 和国泰传奇领主现在拥有魔法物品。 但这只是其中的一些变化。 寻找更接近 realse 的完整路径注释。

总而言之，我和我的团队多么希望这款游戏能够发挥出最好的效果，并为您提供有趣和难忘的体验，这一点怎么强调都不为过。 改变内容公式，并在幕后进行其他改进，旨在帮助我们做到这一点。 当我们沿着这条道路前进时，我们将不断评估和迭代。

一如既往地感谢您的支持并表达您的担忧。 两者对我们都很重要。 我希望您在拿到《Shadows of Change》后会喜欢它。

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所以，回顾一下 - 我们知道这对我们的一些玩家来说是一个艰难的改变。 我们知道这可能意味着你们中的一些人等待未来的折扣或促销。 我们知道，这种解释并没有让情况变得更容易。 但对您来说，听取我们的意见很重要，我们希望，至少，这有助于澄清做出这一决定的原因。

最后，我们需要再次要求您停止对个别团队成员的辱骂。 尽管你可能会感到沮丧，但这些人花了很多时间在工作室里代表你和你的声音。 当他们受到尊重时，我们所有的工作都会变得更加容易。

- Rob Bartholomew，Creative Assembly 首席产品官。