With Total War: Warhammer 3, one of the best Warhammer games is celebrating its 3rd anniversary on Steam. In addition to hefty discounts, there is also a trailer, but this disappoints many fans.
What kind of game is it? Total War: Warhammer 3 is set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe (so there are no Space Marines here) and combines global turn-based strategy with real-time battles.
The third installment of the Warhammer series was released on February 17, 2022, and since the release of the sandbox campaign Immortal Empires, it offers the ultimate Warhammer experience for strategy players. This combines all factions and territories from Total War: Warhammer 1, 2, and 3 into a huge map, including 100 playable factions from 24 races.
On the 3rd birthday of the game, developer Creative Assembly released a trailer. However, fans are not very fond of it – especially because it pretends to be new, which it is not.
You can see the trailer for the 3rd anniversary of Total War: Warhammer 3 here:
Fans are outraged by “new” trailer
What’s wrong with the trailer? It’s the announcement trailer for the game, just in a tighter aspect ratio and lower resolution. If you get a notification for this and think: “Oh great, there’s something new!”, the disappointment of many players is very understandable.
The trailer currently has a pretty poor like-to-dislike ratio on YouTube: About 1,400 likes against 1,600 dislikes (as of February 18, 3:22 PM). This picture is also reflected in the comments under the video, where the decision of the developer is criticized.
- Bertoleyus: “Is that it? This is just the release trailer from 3 years ago.”
- SigmarWarhammer: “I find it absolutely great that CA didn’t bother to create a new cinematic for the anniversary, but simply re-uploaded an earlier trailer.”
- AliothAncalagon: “I have nothing against the old trailer, it’s a nice trailer. But it’s still rather strange to upload it as a ‘3rd anniversary’ without adding something new.”
AliothAncalagon’s comment touches on a possible improvement suggestion: A small, personal message at the end of the trailer could have better conveyed the impression of a celebratory anniversary. Even though this would still have been somewhat weak for such an occasion, it would likely have pleased fans more than simply repeating an older trailer.
Is that all for the 3rd anniversary? No, thankfully there is also good news in the form of juicy discounts on the entire “Total War: Warhammer” franchise on Steam. So if you’re missing a game or a DLC, you can save money until February 27.
The trailer release is particularly poorly received because Creative Assembly promised improvements just last year – including in communication with fans. After 24 years, the Total War series is now also trying to abandon 3 annoying habits after enraging fans with pure greed.
