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.?

中文翻譯：

大家好！ 分享來自 Creative Assembly 的有關(guān)近期圍繞《全面戰(zhàn)爭 DLC》定價討論的消息：

大家好。 我是 Rob Bartholomew，Creative Assembly 的首席產(chǎn)品官。

首先，我要感謝你們在過去一周發(fā)出的聲音。 希望《全面戰(zhàn)爭》的長期粉絲知道，即使我們很安靜，我們也會一直傾聽你們對我們說的一切。 我們內(nèi)部對此進行了多次對話，希望了解一些情況。

上周，我們發(fā)布了《全面戰(zhàn)爭：戰(zhàn)錘 3》的最新 DLC - 變換靈，將變形靈、元伯、奧斯坦基亞等角色帶到了游戲中。 一段時間以來，團隊一直在努力解決這個問題，我們很高興您能親自使用它。

直接說吧：我們的成本增加了。 不幸的是，這意味著價格必須上漲。 我們知道任何上漲都會很艱難，這就是為什么我們的價格在過去幾年中保持相當穩(wěn)定的原因。 缺點是今天的任何增加都會更加明顯。

現(xiàn)在不是提價的好時機，我們也沒有輕易采取這一步。 然而，這就是支持《戰(zhàn)錘 3》并確保我們能夠提供當前計劃的多年額外內(nèi)容的商業(yè)現(xiàn)實。

也就是說，我們確實需要挑戰(zhàn)自己，以確保這筆成本仍然具有良好的價值。 最終，這取決于你們每個人的決定，我們將繼續(xù)努力平衡這一點。 當然，我們希望有更多的人來玩，我們希望繼續(xù)提供您感興趣的內(nèi)容，并且我們希望盡可能長時間地這樣做。

為了具體分享有關(guān)《戰(zhàn)錘 3》的更多信息，請參閱高級游戲總監(jiān) Rich Aldridge 的更新：

| 在《Shadow of Change》中，我們希望在某種程度上打破過去 DLC 的模式，以確保我們能夠為您帶來盡可能多的內(nèi)容多樣性。 你們都有自己最喜歡的領(lǐng)主、英雄和種族可以玩，而將我們的產(chǎn)品限制在單一種族或派系并不總能滿足您的期望。 我們還希望這能夠加快我們向您提供內(nèi)容的速度，這一直是一個挑戰(zhàn)。

我對我們在 Shadows of Change 和 Update4.0 中創(chuàng)建的內(nèi)容感到非常興奮。 換生靈的玩法與該系列中的其他人截然不同。 策劃和欺騙你的敵人相互沖突，同時從其他定居點中獲取利益，這種感覺很棒，我們真的希望它能開辟新的游戲機會。

我同樣渴望看到你與玉龍元波和奧斯坦基亞媽媽相處得如何，這兩個系列和戰(zhàn)錘世界的新角色，他們都有自己的議程，而且行為冷酷無情。

說到補丁，它提供了一系列你可能期望的修復(fù)，包括 Nakai 再次能夠使用他的巨蜥，巴托尼亞誓言在少女戰(zhàn)役中正確進展，遠程單位在彈藥耗盡時不再陷入近戰(zhàn)， 和國泰傳奇領(lǐng)主現(xiàn)在擁有魔法物品。 但這只是其中的一些變化。 尋找更接近 realse 的完整路徑注釋。

總而言之，我和我的團隊多么希望這款游戲能夠發(fā)揮出最好的效果，并為您提供有趣和難忘的體驗，這一點怎么強調(diào)都不為過。 改變內(nèi)容公式，并在幕后進行其他改進，旨在幫助我們做到這一點。 當我們沿著這條道路前進時，我們將不斷評估和迭代。

一如既往地感謝您的支持并表達您的擔憂。 兩者對我們都很重要。 我希望您在拿到《Shadows of Change》后會喜歡它。

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所以，回顧一下 - 我們知道這對我們的一些玩家來說是一個艱難的改變。 我們知道這可能意味著你們中的一些人等待未來的折扣或促銷。 我們知道，這種解釋并沒有讓情況變得更容易。 但對您來說，聽取我們的意見很重要，我們希望，至少，這有助于澄清做出這一決定的原因。

最后，我們需要再次要求您停止對個別團隊成員的辱罵。 盡管你可能會感到沮喪，但這些人花了很多時間在工作室里代表你和你的聲音。 當他們受到尊重時，我們所有的工作都會變得更加容易。

- Rob Bartholomew，Creative Assembly 首席產(chǎn)品官。