Expansion pack prices and release date

**NimbleNota** · 06-14-2005, 18:08

I am not too worried about the price if BI is good I just hope they fix the MP and cav spamming, I am willing to pay alot for them to make this game as great as it should be.

**Total War Merc** · 06-14-2005, 20:57

August @ £26.99 At Game

or

August @ £26.99 At Amazon

I have been looking at unofficial websites about this game and i cant find any major improvements, sure it looks good but im undecieded on wheter its worth the money

**sik1977** · 06-14-2005, 21:36

Play.com has kept RTW price stable at 24.99 (delivered) since the day it came out in UK. The best i found was 23.99 at another site.

Anyhow, it can't be that RTW:BI would be released at a higher price then the original. Makes no sense, financially or otherwise from a marketing and sales perspective.

I am still not fully convinced the expansion will be published by Activision. The expansion was displayed at the Sega counter at E3. Whatever the case, we will know soon enough.

Personally, I am in no hurry to buy the expansion. I may get it if it gets good player reviews at the forums, and fixes most issues. Even then, I haven't had the oppurtunity to try many great mods for RTW, which I am looking forward to once i am through with my Masters and hopefully by then this save/load issue will have been fixed. (as per the announcements by Shogun at TWC forums).

**professorspatula** · 06-14-2005, 22:04

Well if Sega do publish it, here's hoping they stick to sensible pricing.

Imagine if Nintendo published PC games. They'd be a Mario: Total War game out before Christmas. And then about 10 sequels in the following few years.

**tibilicus** · 06-14-2005, 22:05

It will allways get good reviews on sites like Gamespy e.c.t. They allways do. They cant look beyond the blunders as they wont actually play the game for a frequent time. Anyway I will probably rush to buy this. If only that I have done this for all Totalwar games and I cant break the tradition! As for the price........... That really does seem stupid. Im surpirsed the pirse of Rome total war has not droped yet. They should really drop it at this time so people will buy get adicted then buy the exspansion soon after. Just all seems a bit silly really.

**sik1977** · 06-14-2005, 22:10

Originally Posted by tibilicus

It will allways get good reviews on sites like Gamespy e.c.t. They allways do. They cant look beyond the blunders as they wont actually play the game for a frequent time. Anyway I will probably rush to buy this. If only that I have done this for all Totalwar games and I cant break the tradition! As for the price........... That really does seem stupid. Im surpirsed the pirse of Rome total war has not droped yet. They should really drop it at this time so people will buy get adicted then buy the exspansion soon after. Just all seems a bit silly really.

It may be that Activision is not concerned with BI sales anymore and would rather make the most out of its original release (that is if Sega is publishing the expansion). Otherwise, Activision should definetely hire you and fire its marketing and sales department

In any case, i found this at gamespy:

"One of the bigger surprises uncovered at E3 is the purchase of Creative Assembly by Sega. The formerly independent developer, best known for creating the incredible Total War games released by EA and Activision, is now wholly owned by Sega. They kicked off the relationship by showing two titles at E3: Spartan: Total Warrior for consoles and the Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion expansion for PCs.

The latter was a last-minute addition to the show and no screenshots have yet been released."

It does seem Sega will be publishing the expansion. I won't bother getting the expansion if they dont fix the original first and improve the original campaign like they had done with all the previous TW title. (Hmm... i am repeating myself here... oh well... can't get it off my chest enough).

**ciaoftu** · 06-15-2005, 03:35

SO far I only use crack downloa

ded version no charges!

**Mongoose** · 06-15-2005, 03:45

I hope you're just kidding...

**vale** · 06-15-2005, 03:46

sorry but you shouldn't post the download stuff here dude, the rules in the forum don't allow that. anyway I am waiting for new chinese mod out, they are pretty good, it will be a totally new total war. Anyway if the BI version is good and got good comments from some of our mod dont mind me join in :)

**Revelation** · 06-27-2005, 13:27

Originally Posted by ciaoftu

SO far I only use crack downloa

ded version no charges!

The funny thing about this is that it is a viscious little circle. The ridiculous $$$'s charged for pc games these days makes them out of reach for alot of folks, which leads them down the avenue to free cracked/burnt copies.
On the other hand, this is one of the major contributing factors which leads to the exorbitant $$$'s that these companies are forced to charge due to lost revenue and the like. ( Government taxes are a right pain in the arse also).

I sympathize with both parties and see no real quick fix to the problem.