Death of a Game: Total War Arena

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Why would "Germanic people" not like the term "Barbarian"?
Because it's LITERALLY an oversimplification of their culture, and a discrimination of such. It's that fucking simple. I don't want someone to call me a dumb squiggly jumple head, I don't need any cultural reasons for why. Add in some that were built around discrimination, used by OTHER PEOPLES...and yeah...I don't want to be called that
A barbarian, or savage, is someone who is perceived to be either uncivilized or primitive.
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"It was on [the appropriation and adaptation of Egyptian gods] that Greece was founded, according to Plato--and there is no more reliable witness," writes Roberto Calasso in The Celestial Hunter. "The barbarians were therefore the opposite of what the word has come to mean in modern times. They were not new, rough, inarticulate, strong people. They were civilizations much older than Greece--particularly Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia--that had achieved a noble and immovable wisdom."
The Romans used the term barbarus for uncivilised people, opposite to Greek or Roman, and in fact, it became a common term to refer to all foreigners among Romans after Augustus age (as, among the Greeks, after the Persian wars, the Persians), including the Germanic peoples, Persians, Gauls, Phoenicians and Carthaginians."
Damn I should keep using a term that INCORRECTLY describes MASSIVE THOUSAND+ YEAR OLD CIVILIZATIONS.
Because people think I am offended!
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@Minebot45 Год назад

I remember watching The Spiffing Brit playing the literal last Total War Arena match anywhere in the world. Fascinating to see what happened that led to that!

@airstuck3929 Год назад

Huh

@nitebones1 Год назад

the fact the game was out for so long yet bearly any content creators made any vids on it out side of suntzu. yet spif finally made a vid when it was already dead instead of bringing attention to the game when it really needed it

@thespiffingbrit Год назад

@@nitebones1I only rediscovered the game a few days before the entire thing went offline. It takes me ages to make a video so beyond me advertising it on my discord and the total war creator discord I couldn't have saved it

@nitebones1 Год назад

@@thespiffingbrit yea i mostly blame CA for teh death of it this time because they just didnt advertise the return at all. like i get proper advertisement on different websites and all that can be pricy, but it is much cheaper to just use their twitch channel they have, and just have a couple streams every now and then of people playing it. expecally when it first came out in china but no CA was completly silent on it all. so it is understandable when big channels like your self, apollo, jackiefish who would have brought a lot of attention to it when it was needed just didnt hear about it in time to save it

@HyeonsikLi 5 месяцев назад

@@nitebones1 it has been played by other big content creators not english ones but some having milions of subs in other countries. Its death was not being on Steam anymore, never launching and being sold to CA/WG. it wouldve been a huge success if it just got released on steam and some advertising.

@ThatOneSomethingg Год назад

Here when the title was "EDIT 01" 😉

@stellviahohenheim Год назад

nobody cares

@sunloon Год назад

The creator clearly does as he likes the post

@airstuck3929 Год назад

@@stellviahohenheimya mum

@-pressxtostart- Год назад

@@stellviahohenheimabout you

@slicy9662 Год назад

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@Maliz_Ultraviolet_Lantern Год назад

They removed that “draconian” requirement for Warhammer 3 months ago. You can play Immortal Empires just by owning WH3

@jfe2049 Год назад

This should be higher

@sunloon Год назад

Sadly you can only play the factions from the game you bought so if you don't own the first game no empire for you, but that's more fair than before

@ShahbazBokhari Год назад

Glad to find this comment, my lad is out of date with some of his crucial info.

@Tom_Cruise_Missile Год назад

@@sunloonfucking WHAT

@jimster1111 Год назад

cant wait till its cracked.

@GoliathcraftLP Год назад

Why I loved about the game is how responsive the battles felt! I tried other total war games, but none has the same visceral feeling of getting a flank or charge of at just the right moment

@raulpetrascu2696 10 месяцев назад

It also had that feeling that's hard to describe where you're just a part of a larger battle with a small force so it's far less stressful. And when you help your teammate or attack together it feels great or if you knock someone out, a well timed javelin throw or cavarly charge out of the forest can turn the game around but it doesn't feel bad when you die as a distraction either. There's no game I've played that matched that TW Arena experience. Especially when it was so simple to pick up and ran inexplicably well on my old computer

@GoettlicherOreo Год назад

Man I loved that game. To bad that they had such a bad marketing so no one knew it even existed and you could sign up so late for it. Yeah an Carthage was so unbalanced

@Unit72 Год назад

You are right about the marketing. Im a Total War fan since Rome1. I may not have liked Rome 2 but i was looking forward to this game and had it wishlisted on my steam. At NO POINT did it update and inform me it was available for open beta for all to try. Anytime i looked in this game's direction it was only available closed beta.

@GoettlicherOreo Год назад

@@Unit72yeah the marketing was non existing

@GoettlicherOreo Год назад

@@EcchiRevengeit was great. I played with a friend. So he took archers or skirmishes and I played two units of hoplites on the flanks an one formation of pikes. You could really pull of some great tactics where you hold or push. Some Team members could conquer the enemies base while you hold them back on another point with a good artillery player in the back. It had so much potential.

@wamakima5004 Год назад

Elephants were so broken

@GoettlicherOreo Год назад

@@wamakima5004yeah you saw one Carthage player and knew you loose this. Then you looked for javelins or Pikes in your team's roster...if you didn't find one it was lost.

@ronaldswanson4403 Год назад

I have played almost every single total war game. Total War Arena was honestly one of the most entertaining titles, and I loved playing it. It was amazing to play a massive battle where you only have to micro manage a small part of your team but you can still make a big impact. It’s a shame that they marketed the game horribly and gave up on the game when it didn’t meet expectations

@mareksimon1220 Год назад

God how I miss the game. My heart was broken when they announced they would shut it down. I played the game each day for hours until the shutdown. Despite everyone saying nobody played it I never had to wait long for matches. And when it comes to the pay to win microtransactions, it's not pay to win unless they will be selling some OP units. These premium units weren't OP. And also the fact that as a Tier 1 unit you won't go against tier 7 premium unit no matter what meant that it wasn't pay to win. It was pay for convenience. Premium accounts and units would speed up your progression, but that progression was artificial. Sure you will get better units, but you will also go against better units. I myself loved to play around tier 3-5 as these units were my most favorite and had no actual need to go higher.

@Askethanoras 8 месяцев назад

indeed, i played this game also for hours upon hours, from mornings to mornings at school, damn it was so... good, i do hope we'll get something like this in the future.

@vysearcadia522 4 месяца назад

I think the real problem was the way premium units are released. They would do this thing where they would be overpowered at launch then nerfed later. Not Wargaming’s first rodeo. Wargaming also has had in both WoW and WoW Legends, premium ships that would never be needed yet be OP.

@nodosa994 Год назад

Wow, you're covering a game I actually once played seriously. This is nostalgic.

@yukipaw1702 Год назад

I grinded so much of this game back in the day, the total war battle fomula guaranted so many hours of fun. I also didn't have the money to buy total war games at the time so having a free 2 play title was amazing.

@LiveDoG Год назад

It was the best version where the environment was actually matter in whole series

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

Fair point

@catalyst772 Год назад

"I'll call the Barbarians Germanic People" Gauls: Am I a joke to you?

@pattamon9432 Год назад

A joke to Caesar at least Kappa

@termitreter6545 Год назад

Cant hear you over the sound of the Franks taking over :^)

@khyroz9519 10 месяцев назад

or scythians lol

@Aracknos Год назад

Feels so weird to see this game again, I totally forgot about it, even though I loved it. It was so much fun, and using cavalry and siege units felt so good. There's been a couple game like that, but they just don't have the same magic.

@Sigxy Год назад

13:50 - if you mean Immortal Empires, it is now playable if you only have TWW3 (It's just that you need to buy the previous games if you want to play as those specific factions.)

@JasperLane Год назад

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that trailer. Heck it might he my favorite TW trailer

@bubblesofthecoast6393 Год назад

I remember playing this game. Reminded me of an even older game, World of Battles, where you controlled troops on a match similar to this so I hopped right in. I did stop playing after a while, but it was the game that helped bring me into the Total War franchise as a whole, so for that, I’m eternally grateful that this game existed at all, even if it was short-lived

@stoyanb.1668 Год назад

I loved it. Couldn't stop playing it. Despite the drawbacks, it removed lots of the annoying parts of the tw campaign and focused on the fun battles. And ya they failed completely in the marketing department, it was a moba, but it was unique. The monetization was fine in my opinion, there weren't op units, unlike world of tanks, if you used your unit badly you got punished for it. Elephants were broken through, but the game was dying so there was virtually no development to fix that.

@Killer-vi4ih 25 дней назад

Pretty unique gameplay it had. Miss it dearly really sad!!!

@mullerpotgieter Год назад

Barbarian literally meant "anyone who isn't Roman and Greek".

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

No it wasn't HAHA. Now that's funny, read a history book before you post on my videos please...because I did. It was used to derogatorily refer to pagans, aka non Christians primarily. The same people who defeated the very same people who called them that...hence how absurd the claim and term is, and why it has no real relevancy past propaganda and describing what ignorant people were using for the time. But thanks for having me explain more, I love this subject and know I know more about it than you.

@khankhomrad8855 Год назад

@@Starkillerakos234 Each commander in Arena came from a different people. You had: Arminius, German with a Roman upbringing; Vercingetorix, Gallic; Boudica, Icenian; Ambiorix, Celt from a tribe that lived around what is today Belgian.

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

@@luckytanuki5449 That's the origin of the word. I can't believe I have to explain to somebody, that the origin of the word isn't the only way it was used or even conceived. How silly and childish. Roman's (and Greeks) used Barbarian to refer to people without works of writing...but it turns out those people actually did have some works, just not advanced. So then it becomes "well they are MORE barbaric than us" which is not only a pointless and dumb argument...it does nothing to actually tell us about the groups of people. So not only did you literally describe a word, and think you made a point (which anyone who read a history book knows this is stupid), you don't even know what you are ultimately talking about...as a non germanic person. Why would you even be offended anyway? Seems weird to me to be offended and uneducated, which are both choices.

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

@@Starkillerakos234 That's what they are called in the game, so nice try but let's actually learn history for a second. Your first sentence is completely irrelevant, thanks for mentioning it though (they still classified pagans that way...???)? The second part is funny, because Plato actually specifically told people not to use the term since it wasn't very helpful...and yet you are saying they used it to "emphasize otherness" it doesn't emphasize anything other than "different than us". It gives you no ACTUAL information, hence why it's cringe people make it about moral feelings and not ACTUAL data...which it fails horribly as a word at. The derogatory part came immediately, Plato talks about this...in his writings. Feel free to contradict Plato, and show me sources that show otherwise. But since I know you can't, I know you wrote all of this drivel to feel self-important meanwhile exposed your low IQ and critical thinking skills. Thanks. FYI, if you don't respond as per my channel rules you will be banned. Since I don't respect people who can't argue critically, and just want to feel self important. Thanks again :).

@Marinealver Год назад

Not just Infinite, but the whole Halo Franchise. Well Angels Fall First is approaching 1.0 but is also known for shoddy turnout in its long Early Access period. I would also like a look into Planetside if possible, at the least the first game.

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

great options

@Marinealver Год назад

@@nerdSlayerstudioss I think we have a fresh body Victim: Gundam Evolution Suspect: Bandi Namco

@DerAnanasbaum Год назад

Ackshually, (iirc) 'germanic' in it's original meaning was pretty similar in definition to that of 'barbaric', as it basically ment "those from the other side of the rhine" much like barbaric ment "those not roman". Contemporary connotations are far different of course, but I thought this was a fun coincidence to mention

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

FYI I mentioned Germanic not being the best term too...but uh...thanks lol? Unfortunately I don't know all the individual tribes utilized, and we are using the games "faction system" at the end of the day etc.

@braccio5146 Год назад

A little clarification, what you said DerAnanasbaum is true, but the Romans used that term only for those populations that (to the Romans perception) sounded like "bar bar" when they were speaking :)

@DerAnanasbaum Год назад

@@nerdSlayerstudioss No worries, I just thought others might enjoy this little addition. Didn't intented to come off as scolding, sorry if I did.

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

It's more funny because I am literally Germanic and mentioned the term also not being the best.

@DerAnanasbaum Год назад

@@nerdSlayerstudioss Heh, same actually. Never considered your usage to be inappropriate or offensive. I had just recently learned about the term being basically Gaulish(?) for 'those weirdos over there' and couldn't resist nerding out a bit

@Viper40758 Год назад

I was a big fan of Arena and I played it a lot. I was shocked when it got the plug pulled. I guess my nostalgia blinded me, totally forgot just how insanely grindy it was

@drlsword Год назад

You don't need all 3 games to play the combined map in 3 anymore

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

😊. When did that change happen? I just tried to play this spring.

@54tisfaction Год назад

05:20 Wargaming was not a Seattle-based company, it was founded in Minsk, Belarus, and later relocated to Cyprus. Sure it owned a studio in Seattle, but that was terminated in 2018.

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

You are absolutely right and I made a silly mistake that ignored some of the cultural reasons for things. You're a beast and I'm a dunce on that.

@54tisfaction Год назад

@@nerdSlayerstudioss You're no dunce, you make awesome videos that are always interesting! 🙂

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

I posted the correction on the pinned post! :)

@ironflush4473 7 месяцев назад

I miss this game so much. I still find myself thinking about it once in awhile. I only found out about its existence like 3 months b4 it got canceled and it's still some of the funnest time I've ever had in a video game.

@ozpol8454 8 месяцев назад

I used to play this every day. I loved it, I was so sad when they closed it down.

@wolfattackz187 Год назад

Arena was my FIRST total war game and the FIRST time I ever heard of the total war series.... I played pretty heavily back in 2019 and was so sad when it shut down. I would play this game again given the chance.

@Ardez Год назад

The original launch of Total War Arena was directly by Sega for about a year, and they had offered access as part of pre-ordering Rome II. They took the game offline for a year, basically restarting development from the beginning, and relaunching with Wargaming as you mentioned. Monetization changed drastically from the first early access to the second. I wrote quite a lot of the topic of the game's monetization and balance on the old reddit. Pay to win was a concern, but primarily in the same way economic rewards benefited purchasers like in World of Tanks and not directly through power, as decision making was often more important than slightly better raw stats in some regards and worse in others. Not being punished economically for your mistakes kept purchasers in higher tier games longer while f2pers had to drop to lower tiers to earn money (in the late game). In the end, they didn't know how to monetize the game and they didn't know how to keep the combat interesting for casual players, or regular total war single-player fans. The game could have benefitted greatly from abandoning the facade of historical "accuracy" and embracing more fantastic elements such as in Total War Troy or 3Kingdoms. The Chinese launch was a bit of a flop for western players, and the game was mostly filled with bots 22 out of 24 hours of the day. Though the bots were well designed, it seemed more popular due to the artificial matchmaking supplemented by bots rather than long queue times. Bots existed previously, but not as well designed or well hidden.

@Mortales0092 Месяц назад

Unlike a war thunder or world of tanks, total war arena goes up against other titles that are also of a higher caliber. Insert an economy system that no longer works and that only benefits those who have been playing for a long time, put in a progression system that doesn't have equal matchmaking like on WOT where you can find opponents with vehicles even 2 tiers higher than yours, and here's the player abandons the title thinking it is poorly made. And they're right, why do a pvp where the new player has to suffer while those who have been playing for a long time go downhill? The competitions are done on equal terms, without crippled some to favor others.

@AnaxofRhodes Год назад

This game was my jam. I loved it to death. Wargaming did right by Arena when they acquired it. I've moved on in life, but this will always have a special place in my heart. Miltiades was my main. There was lots of interesting historical info in unit descriptions. This game was what Rome 2 should have been, gameplay wise. The game was a blast and the close knit community was mostly great to interact with. ❤ I spent money in the game. Players sometimes complained about my gold units. They weren't much better than vanilla units. They simply offered a unique way to play at different tiers, such as Roman cav a tier or two early. Faster progression meant I had less experience at higher tiers. I frequently lost because of this. It was double edged.

@timothymurphy7669 Год назад

CA changed Total War Warhammer 3's 'draconian' monetisation of Immortal Empires earlier this year. You only need total war 3 to play Immortal Empires now.

@EsquireR Год назад

remembering and googling this game was so painfully hard - it just faded in plethora of more successful military games. now i get the closure!

@lelouche25 Год назад

"barbarians" is a general term for the tribes of Germania and the British Isles, during the height of the Roman Empire as I recall. But yeah, you had several tribes, like the pitch in Scotland.

@aceroy9195 Год назад

As a term it was meant to describe languages that were far from Greek. Like Celtic, Germanic, and Brythonic. But you can't say the term is a bad label and then go onto mislabel the people of Gaul as Germans.

@termitreter6545 Год назад

I dont think Barbarians is really a term like that, it doesnt describe any specific groups, and its almost always been used in a derogatory way. Eg for the romans, barbarians were often foreigners (non-romans), or uncivilized people. Historically it was eg used by Romans for european tribes, but also for north africans tribes (eg vandals) or the huns. Later by europeans for the mongolians, too.

@aceroy9195 Год назад

@termitreter6545 vandals aren't north african... but moreover it was a term to tie civility to the language spoken. This happened all over the world, especially in China and India.

@termitreter6545 Год назад

@@aceroy9195 Right, might be wrong about the Vandals, apparently they are germanic? Just weird cuz they had set up in North Africa and Spain, and IIRC used that angle to attack Rome. Agreed about the langauge thing, didnt know it originated with the greek.

@aceroy9195 Год назад

@termitreter6545 the burgundians, vandals, and visigoths all migrated out of Eastern Europe during the hunnic invasion.

@ambrosiogiovanni6952 Год назад

This was an actual good game. At least gameplay wise. I was in the Beta, and it was fun. For me the only drawbacks in the gameplay side is that, we should be using 5 units, each commander, instead of just three. That, and also make some commanders be more versatile instead of too focussed. Alex for example was always just three Cav, while he was the one who perfected the Hammer and Anvil strategy.

@rellek4053 Год назад

Warhammer 3 no longer requires the former games to play the immortal empires campaign. Good news.

@AhmadSammy Год назад

Total War Warhammer 3 has dropped the requirement to own all 3 games in order to play the combined campaign (Immortal empires). Also, Each game has its own campaigns.

@capitaleyes3168 7 месяцев назад

I miss this game so badly... The things id do for its return.

@exoticbreadstick8661 Год назад

by the way they changed the draconian dlc policy, you can play the big campaign mode just by owning game 3, but you will only have acess to the factions from game 3

@Owlr4ider Год назад

The monetization scheme was definitely from Wargaming as it's incredibly similar to that of World of Tanks/Warships. I think it's also a safe bet Sega was in charge of advertisement, which is why the game barely received any. It was basically a RTS lite, much like the current trend of mobile RTS games, just a few years ahead of its time. Also it didn't help that Wargaming's monetization scheme simply didn't fit this type of game at all.

@mattesdrescher4783 Месяц назад

This was actually my introduction to the total war series. I remember really liking it, but just stopped playing after a while. I only realized it got shut down years after the fact.

@thomaswebb393 Год назад

I remember playing this and people spamming archers, all 3 units firing on each 3 units individually would one shot them in 1 volley. Game virtually had no unit balance the entire time it was alive so to speak.

@wkblauwster Год назад

hi, quick note about warhammer 3. you mentioned needing all 3 games to play the big mode, immortal empires. this is since 2.4.0 no longer the case. you can play it now with just game 3. the only restriction is that you can only play as the game 3 races.

@drakeblackk 6 месяцев назад

Total War: Arena was the only game like this, i was actually willin' to play. Others are shit, where you have to focus on like 5-10 units, there you had this large, only ony type of soldiers group, which was AWESOME! The best game is gone, since then, i didnt see anything like that sadly

@Vaniity_Velvet Год назад

Some people would argue that while Total War may have hit it's economic peak with Warhammer, it also started to decline gameplay wise as they attempt to water the game down for a more a casual audience. However, I would argue that this decline was happening before Warhammer.

@boshooda 11 месяцев назад

I was a core Total War Fan, and Arena was my favorite Total War game. The progression system and unit/commander dynamic were the two core problems the game had.

@WhiplashSL Год назад

Oh my god! The next case preview! Why must you tug at my childhood nostalgia of what once was?

@ShoryukenPizza Год назад

Because it was what... once was? lmao as opposed to being what it should have been.

@WhiplashSL Год назад

@@ShoryukenPizza I was mainly referring to what happened to Halo after Bungie left.

@Cheeseit99 Год назад

You don’t need all three games to play immortal empires anymore, the community outcry convinced them. There’s even an awesome trailer for its release.

@benjaminjane93 6 месяцев назад

Honestly, this is probably one of the short lived games which I am genuinely sad got gone so quickly. This game had serious potential and was really fun!

@Wandermidget Год назад

This one hurt. The next one is gonna hurt even more. And I predict the next one will personally hurt me even more.

@zonko1176 Год назад

never played a total war game, but I loved Total War Arena and me and my friends where really sad when it shut down😢

@aznfattass Год назад

Total war arena was great, yea some units were op, but in my opinion was what real life was like, so people simply developed strategies to beat them. this forced people to use more tactics then just click and play tactics and team play really shined when the players worked together

@TheMandalp Год назад

You know thatg Babaric mean not Latin Speaker . We German are Proud to be Called that as our History agrees with us otherwise no problems.

@nerdSlayerstudioss Год назад

No it didn't, it was used to describe anyone not Roman or Greek. Only originally was it used for "bar-bar" language confusion. You are not proud to be called a slur, please stop being stupid. I am Germanic, and my family still lives in Germany...nobody wants to be called a slur there, especially one used INCORRECTLY to describe groups of people that were so advanced...they defeated the people who classified them as that. Which is why I either doubt you are Germanic, or if you read a history book about your own people...Why would we want a conqueror to name us, when we conquered them?

@trauma50disaster1 9 месяцев назад

@@nerdSlayerstudioss Living in dog shit mixed with horse shit in an uncivilized dirty village with no massive structures or technology like roman/greek cities is common to most of the world, even now. Attacking uncivilized, little ability to carry on with diplomacy like the roman/greeks is a negative no matter if the decendents want to feel bad about the truth. No one would call a current german a barbarian so your point makes no sense, but there are barbarians currently, it's the truth. Just as much truth as most of the world were barbarians at some point in time including your special germans and my forefathers as well.

@yamochanchan Год назад

This one is close to my heart. I actually loved Arena. Mhm~ This Video comes at a really good time thou with Creative Assembly being on the ropes with the newest Warhammer DLC getting some real shade thrown at it

@azurechan Год назад

As someone who has enjoyed the Total War franchise, I had no idea this existed until now.

@susakuzero Год назад

You have missed nothing. Game was mostly managed by Shitgaming who also have World of pay Greed as one of their Games. From there most of the concept was used like extreme grind which you can speed up by pay Money or special Items you can pay for with Money and so on.

@Nitidus Год назад

You *do not* need all three TW Warhammer games anymore to be able to play Immortal Empires, I think. If I recall correctly, they changed it some time ago.

@zeebaa6 Год назад

This game was so fun. It was pretty much created using the communities' custom game type "sub commanders" rules. Albeit with some changes.

@edabreu7871 9 месяцев назад

Best game of its genre ever made. Greed and impatience killed it.

@FieldHoodGaming Год назад

Arena was a great game. I played all 3 published versions of the game, and I never heard or saw anyone complaining about the P2W mechanics. Yes it had them micro transactions, but non paying players had a chance of winning because strategy mattered way more.

@hungryhedgehog4201 Год назад

I miss playing Boudica and anoying people with my guy fieri skirmishers

@RedGuardian0902 11 месяцев назад

To be honest, I quite liked the idea of this game. It felt incredibly large on scale and yet you had only a few select units to control, thus making everything hectic. I would love if there was another game that was released liked this, because I never got to experience total war arena sadly.

@niklasroth5200 Год назад

I remember being so excited when I got an Alpha key and got to play it with my friends who already got one. Early Total War Arena up to the release of the open Beta was a blast. It was so much fun and way more casual than other total war multiplayer modes. Especially Shogun 2 with it's avatar mechanic.

@ForeverTributesNL Год назад

At the time, that was the only TW I played. It had so much potential. I mean, even as a cash-cow.

@tuff-knorf4561 11 месяцев назад

I’m sorry for all you camping archers I utterly destroyed with my cavalry every time I played. No I’m not.

@IronKilt Год назад

I really want this game back 😭💔

@rubz1390 Год назад

You dont need all 3 Warhammer games in order to play Immortal Empires now. They changed that this year.

@Miller09095 Год назад

You actually only need Warhammer 3 to play Immortal Empires now. Though obviously only with that game's factions.

@BavarianHobbit Год назад

I really miss this game. I played it tons. If anyone knows a game that is similar to Total War Arena please tell me. I have been looking for a replacement for so long now.

@alexeivasiliev7766 11 месяцев назад

Some of us waiting Men of War 2. It will be 5v5 multiplayer games.

@TotalTryFails Год назад

You dont need all 3 games anymore to play the full version

@shorkmal Год назад

I loved playing total war Arena. Sometimes matches was irritating, but thats multiplayer gaming for you. It's sad for me that this game couldn't become something better. It could be great

@omarmix6075 25 дней назад

I miss drawing ""things"" on the planning map 😢

@exodius9054 Год назад

Im stilly so mad about the death of this game. It could have been so much but it died so fast and now that the concept is kinda "burned" I dont think a game like it will come back soon

@nogarevi Год назад

Nice Video! :D Would also be interested in your thoughts on Dragon's Prophet and its ,,successor" Savage Hunt: Dragon's Prophet.

@zikarisg9025 10 месяцев назад

Looking forward to the "Death of a Studio: Creative Assembly" video by the pace things are going over there...

@nerdSlayerstudioss 10 месяцев назад

looking forward to failure is pretty teenager, not going to lie mate

@zikarisg9025 10 месяцев назад

You misunderstand me, I love Total War games and I never would want a game or studio to fail, especially given how many people are losing their job in the industry this year. But the way some studios chose to go to war with their customers is unbelievable and CA is one of the worst cases. With Hyenas cancelled, Total War Pharao tanking and players abandoning Warhammer in combination with Sega cutting investments might be too much to recover from. What I do look forward is you covering this post mortem if it happens.

@nerdSlayerstudioss 10 месяцев назад

I get you much better now, thanks for the response. I guess with the internet and comments its easy to miss so much context, especially from the person.

@counterspelled7577 Год назад

I played it since it was in Beta and loved it. It was a bit too grindy for me yeah but I was really sad when they shut the servers down

@paper3522 Год назад

Sad to say but could you do a death of a game for The Cycle: Frontier?

@AzureToroto Год назад

Kinda wish they went for a tug of war conquest map of Europe (or part of it) split between various clans and factions, which gave a sense of conquering regions similar to the Total War games, but simplified, the regions would give a bonus to it's ruling faction once they unified it's province. I think microtransactions should have been restricted to cosmetics for the troops like alternative armors through the faction's history. Though doubt they would have allowed it.

@sapphiron21 Год назад

Rolling up a line of modern musket troops with my traditional cavalry in FOTS multiplayer was fun but i play total war games for their singleplayer campaign 1st and foremost, an MP only total war game simply didn't sound very enticing to me

@pvtspartan Год назад

I really loved this game

@Occhiodiargento 2 месяца назад

I played this game with my friend years ago. I had a good time with it.

@eduardoserpa1682 Год назад

I'm more of a traditional RTS fan, but that MOBA-lite concept sounds really good for a F2P, multiplayer-focused Total War. The same goes for what Dawn of War 3 ended being, so I hope to see other attempts at RTS with minimal base-building (specially with the Warhammer IP involved, but maybe in the League of Legends universe?).

@gamemak0r Год назад

I loved that game so much but there was probably 4 or 5 times I waited in queue for an hour before having to requeue

@bubbasbigblast8563 Год назад

Funny thing is, Arena was starting to shut down at the same time that the Warhammer 2 multiplayer was taking off, with more tournaments and the like, so CA itself was actually getting close to having a really active multiplayer scene. Alas, Warhammer 3 squandered that with a litany of bugs, a small map pool, and a very long production/patch time that was probably caused by most of the developers getting replaced, but still, the framework was solid.

@Alphazans Год назад

I'm sure someone already pointed it out, but a few months ago, there was a petition by the TW: Warhammer community to make the main game mode free for all Warhammer 3 players, which they announced in a trailer awhile ago. However, if you want to play some factions or certain character, you can either get the corresponding DLC or the base game, preferably when on sale.

@TitanRow Год назад

Has this game been shut down 😢 i played this game a few years ago and now i found it again i loved this game so mutch just doing the battles is so awesome

@TheJaxDoesGames Год назад

My only experience of the game as a life long fan of the franchise was a teammate of mine from high school soccer played it for a little bit before getting a free code for Medieval 2. I had not been inclined to check it out or even had heard much before that point even though it was at that time my favorite franchise in gaming. I barely even knew what it was before it was Old Yeller'd.

@Wardukez 3 месяца назад

God i miss this game. it Needs to come back.

@TheGreatMoonFrog 10 месяцев назад

I've been playing Total War games since Shogun 1 and I also played a crap ton of World of Tanks. I got burnt out of WoT because of the grind and monetization. I also tended to play mostly multiplayer on total war games since really I was just after the feeling of being a general of antiquity and outsmarting the opponent general. I was so excited when I heard of Total War Arena, and then so immediately disappointed that it had Wargaming monetization, I was already so sick of it from WoT. I played TWA a bit, the gameplay was fun, but man, I just couldn't do another Wargaming grind so I stopped.

@gerbo8018 Год назад

Sadly its also that system that pulled me away from world of tanks and warships. That system is just painfully bad.

@zampachp 11 месяцев назад

I loved this game so much .. still beeing sad it died ..

@leeroynilsbreuer 7 месяцев назад

my favorite game of all time and the community was also very nice

@ps_34life Год назад

Can you do Gundam Evolution in your death of a game series.

@Voidsmoothie Год назад

I feel like you have lowered your usual production quality slightly with this video. You sound much more relaxed like usual, and there are noticeable cuts and echo in the audio. Have you been recording this on a vacation? Nothing against a vacation though.

@117twarner 9 месяцев назад

I loved this game cause it was simple and didn't seem as intimidating as the bigger games Also it did feel moba esk

@DarkDodger Год назад

This made me melancholic. I loved the game when it first became available, and I was really angry when it shut down. The developers tried to do something new for once, and it got shut down. Thanks, wargaming, for ruining yet another good game.

@thefighter887 Год назад

Honestly as someone who has played every historical total war apart from the new Egyptian one, Total war arena was my favourite, Because of the multiplayer aspect, many people agree, so then IF it failed to meet expectation, why not just add a better multiplayer matching system like shogun avatar conquest, for all the historical total war titles? a small but rewarding feature no? I still can't believe they terminated this game, I see many 10 VS 10 RTS games in 2022 and 2023 that are very successful, The biggest mistake total war ever made in my opinion ;( I think I got Boudicca, I think she was a premium general,

@jonathanvillanueva9206 Год назад

I remember playing this. I got into Total War with Shogun 2 but I thought it was fun. It definitely felt Grundy but the matches were really exciting because u had to coordinate with others to win

@marcoopolo888 Год назад

Total war arena is still Playable

@arkorat3239 Год назад

Remember being pretty excited for this game, thought it was still in development. Is Ca marketing team just that bad?

@vgalis Год назад

I remember feeling like the progression in this one was even slower than in Wargaming's other games (maybe I just sucked at it). Also, Wargaming had a subscription that gave you benefits in all their games, but it didn't cover this one. That was a major killer for me. I had enjoyed being able to switch between World of Warships and World of Tanks freely with the same sub. I feel like they would have brought more of their players to Arena if they had included it.

@futuretab Год назад

I played it a lot - I liked the tactics with different commanders, team work, and instant action. I thought of it like a COD or BF type of game but for RTS fans. The grind was a bit annoying but for a free game I didnt care that much.

@CssHDmonster Год назад

for me this game was dead on arrival due to world of tanks model of monetization and progress. Cant wait for death of a game:hyenas or whatever their upcoming multiplayer fps is named

@NeFjuS 3 месяца назад

I dont know if my memory is bad... but the grind did not seem that bad when i was playing it, i remember getting quite high in the skill tree very fast.

@stevek1 Год назад

Creative Assembly did recently remove that "draconian restriction" you mentioned at the end of the video.

@Tanuvein Год назад

I've been a Total War fan since Rome 1. I had played a bit of World of Warships as well until it got a bit less historical, so Arena was an easy pick up for me. It's basically the only modern online games other than ESO where I spent hundreds of hours playing. I do miss it, though not the stupid pricing plan they borrowed from World of Warships