About Total War and CA

**kostas84** · August 25, 2013, 05:28 PM

I have been gaming over the past 9 years or so and ive come across a lot of companies, games, seen interesting developments, but ive only had internet about 4 years ago to today, and in these recent years ive started exploring gaming more.

So let me tell you a few things that i know are true about some companies:

This is already shelved and done with but theres no "cut content" in a game, in some cases there is but CA is a good company, so heres how it works (from what little i know) with good companies, each DLC or Project has its own Manpower and budget assigned to it, this is usually done so that people that had done their job already or were unnassigned produced something good and profitable for the players, its seperate project from the main game development.

Worst case scenario is a bad publisher, someone who assigns too little time on the developing team to start on a game and finish it, this is, in my opinion, part of the reason why Dragon Age 2 paled in comparison to its predecessor, there have also been some cases recently that the publisher tells the company to cut content from the game in order to sell it as a pre-order bonus or day 1 dlc, but many cases like this dont exist. But SEGA isnt one of those publishers.

SEGA recently has been leaning onto its more successful franchises such as the Total War more due to the financial crisis, so you can expect great things from CA in the future unless something goes wrong. There have been cases like that in CA history but the developers moved on and recently things have been going well, Shogun 2 is an excellent game even if it has its twists and flaws, but thats what every game has.

From my understanding SEGA isnt lax about things, but they arent too restrictive either, they are middle-of-the-road from my expirience.

All i can say is, have faith in CA, they wont underperform, their history proves that, they dont have a bad publisher.

The bad side of the coin is, that a company isnt all flowers and rainbows, they need to make money too, thats one of the points in making a large company anyway, but CA and SEGA arent one of the bad companies - thats what i personally believe.

I hope i convinced some people and that im not too wrong about things.

Peace out.

**Martz** · August 25, 2013, 05:30 PM

Definitely agree. I have faith in CA and am looking forward whole-heartedly to Rome 2 and any further releases.

**Heinz Guderian** · August 25, 2013, 06:30 PM

So they got to kostas84? goddamn it. first thing we need to find out is where are they holding him. its probably not Shadow Moses Island this time.

**BroskiDerpman** · August 25, 2013, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Heinz Guderian

So they got to kostas84? goddamn it. first thing we need to find out is where are they holding him. its probably not Shadow Moses Island this time.

Think they used some of that extra budget to bribe Kosta.

hehehe

**GussieFinkNottle** · August 25, 2013, 06:41 PM

wrong subforum

**Nicolaos** · August 25, 2013, 06:42 PM

Oh no, not another one of these threads that will result in a flame war :O I want peace and harmony on twc!

**Anna_Gein** · August 25, 2013, 06:53 PM

Originally Posted by Nicolaos

I want peace and harmony on twc!

Mouhahaha

Sorry. Could not resist the temptation.

**kamikazee786** · August 25, 2013, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by kostas84

Worst case scenario is a bad publisher, someone who assigns too little time on the developing team to start on a game and finish it.

im not worried at all, quite excited actually

But to be honest, Sega is one of those companies.

Why do you think the seleucids aren't playable in the game on release and instead moved forward as dlc to october.

Dont get me wrong, i dont know anything about them and they're not really a fav faction of mine. However just from this we can see that CA didnt have enough time to include everything everyone wanted.

Some features were rushed, like the unit cards , others were cut out to be put back in on a later date ad that was solely due to lack of time and not because CA are evil monsters who want to eat us, no that trait belongs to Sega XD

but yeh im not worried, the game will be much better in about 6 months from release, a plethora of additional factions will be added and perhaps some new features aswell.

and hey we will get modding tools eventually, regions can be made in Shogun 2 if someone has the time and effort to make them and im sure the same amount of support will be shown for Rome II

**familyguy1** · August 25, 2013, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by kamikazee786

im not worried at all, quite excited actually

But to be honest, Sega is one of those companies.

Why do you think the seleucids aren't playable in the game on release and instead moved forward as dlc to october.

Dont get me wrong, i dont know anything about them and they're not really a fav faction of mine. However just from this we can see that CA didnt have enough time to include everything everyone wanted.

Some features were rushed, like the unit cards , others were cut out to be put back in on a later date ad that was solely due to lack of time and not because CA are evil monsters who want to eat us, no that trait belongs to Sega XD

Do we know the Seleucids decision was Sega? Who knows. The thing with them that I understood is that it did not fit with the theme of small factions rising...