People may find this an interesting, Fredrik Wester of Paradox.
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020872...The-Importance
Note also that Paradox have on principle decided that no game will now be released in a state that is unfinished they will in fact delay that game instead until they are happy with its condition.
Regards CA and again I must repeat myself......
CA invested long term in the Warscape engine, it was intended to produce a number of games far into the future and while over the years it has been improved its ultimate goal was to allow CA to create a Total War world that would have higher production values but at the same time keep costs under control.
OfficiallyDevin has suggested that having higher production values means you end up with less content which may be true in some cases but I would argue that Warscape was actually intended to counteract that phenomenon, the buyer would have higher production values but also have a familiar Total War with a reasonable amount of content at a relatively competitive price.
Warscape was intended to automate the process of making a Total War game, a tool that would make life easier however I would argue that it had another perhaps unintentional effect and it turned the process of creating a Total War game into a production line and as I have said before production lines tend to be less adaptable, they are certainly an advantage if you wish to keep churning out basically the same thing but can put you at a serious disadvantage if you wish to do something more complicated.
Perhaps more serious is that the design can become subservient to the requirements of the production line and more consideration is given to keeping the production line moving rather then retooling even if it would be wise to do so.
Your now into the realm of workarounds and unsatisfactory fixes of course each iteration of the game is slightly better but you have now become as OfficiallyDevin put it a software company or as I prefer a production line and a sameness begins to permeate all of your games.
People will of course argue that Warhammer must be different because of the variation among the different races but that is not necessary the case, models and animations are one thing game play is something else.
And don’t be fooled by the Steam refund because all CA need to achieve with Warhammer is a level of mediocrity that makes people not want to lose their pre-order DLC which is of course why you have it in the first place.
Perhaps CA have been struggling to get to a place where everything works and Warhammer will blow us away which will then mean that MTW3 could be amazing we will see.