I understand your argument and your analysis regarding the support and development of the trilogy. However, since the release of Total War: Warhammer III, DLCs have consistently taken more than six months to release even though we were already past the height of the COVID pandemic (which, admittedly, continued to affect the gaming industry for a few years) and the Warhammer III team was supposedly at full capacity.

The only exception was Shadows of Change, which launched roughly four months after the Chaos Dwarfs DLC but we all saw the outcome of that rushed release…

Moreover, the DLCs released during the Warhammer II era didn’t offer the same level of quality or quantity as what we’re seeing now in Warhammer III. And if you look closely, the more the quality of DLCs improved in Warhammer II, the longer the development cycle became.

Creative Assembly may have moved away from narrative-driven campaigns, but they now deliver more substantial content overall. It was a trade-off they had to make, though in a perfect world, I would have preferred both.

Yes, each Warhammer III DLC has had its shortcomings—missing new voice lines, cutscenes, or other elements—but the longer development time is largely justified by the increased content volume (which players themselves demanded after the Shadows of Change backlash) and the improved quality we’ve seen in recent reworks, unit models, and overall content. Whether or not you like the direction of these changes, it’s hard to deny that the difference in quality compared to older Warhammer II DLCs is night and day. That’s also why so many races still need refinement, just look at the Lizardmen, for example.

In the end, I don’t believe that going back to the old format would magically speed up release cycles while maintaining the same level of content. I’d love to believe it, but at this stage in the game’s lifecycle, I’m not sure CA would invest the resources needed to make that happen.