Because current situation in gaming industry? And marketing strategy? Their own lesson?
Look at current trends how every trailer, info, demo is dissected and looked upon. Especially all negative stuff, because negative stuff is selling videos on youtube...On one hand you have thinks like Anthem and on other Apex. Iīm not saying one game is bad and second perfect, just that if community knew about Apex for the previous year, it would be just another Battle Royale game...from EA...People would be catious after BAttlefront II, Mass Effect Andromeda, Battlefield 5.
It is the same in recent titles. Some information will start showing up like 6 month before release with info ramping up 1-2 months prior to release. So donīt expect changes just because you want to know. We all want.. ;-)
And lastly. CA learned probably from R2 release debacle and will not show things that might not be in final product. For now it is enough that another Saga is being produced. There is still not even SteamDB entry for it...
I would point back to original Saga blog:
https://www.totalwar.com/blog/a-tota...-announce-blog
I know this is old blog and CA might change the formulla a little, especially as this second Saga is being produced in Sofia but core distinction between games - tent-pole (eras), following names (great one character), sagas (point in history) is still there. This is reason why Alexander is probably off table but Diadochi war as result of his death might be possible. Why India, Aztecs and 30-years War are probably off as well.
But reading the blog, I mus admit that Warring state sounds like fullfilling the formulla...except the period was 250 years? +/- But then ToB starting date is 878 up to 1066.
And once again. High time of Antics is probably of table too. It is too long era however collapse offer unique opportunity to rebuild civilization. It is such point in history where you can justify what every city is level1, population is way down and basically everybody is starting again.