• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can someone explain what’s going on? Is this related to the cancellation of Hyenas and the layoffs at CA?

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      1 year ago

      There’s been a lethal combo of the latest Total War title (Pharaoh) being perceived as very underwhelming, the title before that (Warhammer 3) having significant issues that haven’t been fixed at the pace that the community demands, and a steep increase in pricing for the most recent additional downloadable content for the series, and all the factors that you already mentioned.

      So because of those issues, negative sentiment in Steam forums of the series has reached stratospheric levels (and in case you don’t know, Steam forum users are not the most diplomatic people to begin with) so this prompted moderators of the company to instate more restrictive moderation against negative posts and discussions. This has, of course, spun into its own controversy as it is perceived that they are trying to censor negative criticism to cover the most recent issues in the series.