Sales & Pricing

[Finarfin]

I was thinking about getting this and was surprised to see that the standard price is still $60. I figured it would be less since it's not the latest game in the series. Does it ever go on sale, or is there a really compelling reason that it's still this price?

[Elitewrecker PT]

Rome 2 is also still 60$ and it's a decade old.
And yes, they go on sale almost every other month.
As for reason - I'd assume enough people still buy at full price that they feel it's worth it to keep it like that.
Weirder is the fact that its Steam discount only goes to 66% off unlike WH1 which has gone to 75% since WH2 came out.

[Finarfin]

I can understand Rome 2 still being full price since it's the latest installment in that series. I'm just not sure I want to drop $60 on the second in a series of 3. it'd have to be really, really good for me to do that, though I guess if you want to the combined campaign you have to have all 3 anyway.

[Elitewrecker PT]

There's an important update coming for WH3 sometime this month, it's possible they put the games on sale then.
Note that you don't need all 3 games to play the combined campaign in WH3 anymore. You can access it with just WH3 but you won't have access to the base content from WH1 and 2.

You need Wh1 and 2 if you want to play the combined map in WH2 though.

You can also track it here, because whenever there's a steam sale other stores also usually have sales and they'll do slightly better prices than Steam.
https://isthereanydeal.com/waitlist/#/page:game/info?plain=totalwarwarhammerii

[Finarfin]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

There's an important update coming for WH3 sometime this month, it's possible they put the games on sale then.
Note that you don't need all 3 games to play the combined campaign in WH3 anymore. You can access it with just WH3 but you won't have access to the base content from WH1 and 2.

You need Wh1 and 2 if you want to play the combined map in WH2 though.

You can also track it here, because whenever there's a steam sale other stores also usually have sales and they'll do slightly better prices than Steam.
https://isthereanydeal.com/waitlist/#/page:game/info?plain=totalwarwarhammerii

That's my go-to site and the first place I looked to see if there was anything less than $60 out there. :) I'm thinking I might pick up Three Kingdoms instead while it's on sale.

[Rerpes]

If you're not wanting to pay the full $60 price tag, you can find a bundle containing TWWH, TWWH2 and TWWH3 for $24. Just head on over to cdkeys and buy from them unless you are after steam points.

[Finarfin]

Is that a reputable site? I've never purchased from them. I definitely don't care where the keys come from.

EDIT: I'm taking a look at that site, but I don't see anything that contains all 3 base games.

[Finarfin]

Found it. Looks like the trilogy is only available to Europe at that price. Guess it's Three Kingdoms for now.

[Trickle]

The first game went on Humble around 6 months after launch. That still pisses me off.

Not expecting that for 3. They'll have a big discount sale on 3 once their next big game release date starts to approach.

Warhammer 3 reached a new all time low of 50% off on Black Friday and Christmas week recently. Might be a while before it goes lower than that.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by Finarfin:

Found it. Looks like the trilogy is only available to Europe at that price. Guess it's Three Kingdoms for now.

Which makes it all the weirder since it appears to be a retail store only thing, and its base price is 60€.

[Finarfin]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

Originally posted by Finarfin:

Found it. Looks like the trilogy is only available to Europe at that price. Guess it's Three Kingdoms for now.

Which makes it all the weirder since it appears to be a retail store only thing, and its base price is 60€.

It makes no sense to me. The European trilogy is ~$25US, but the global trilogy is $100 more.

[Elitewrecker PT]

It's not supposed to be 25, it's supposed to be 60, which would be similar to the sum of the sale prices on Steam and only really useful for people who have nothing.
Don't know if it's really European only though.

[Finarfin]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

It's not supposed to be 25, it's supposed to be 60, which would be similar to the sum of the sale prices on Steam and only really useful for people who have nothing.
Don't know if it's really European only though.

The product name at
https://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/products/Total-War-Warhammer-%252d-Trilogy-EU-%28Steam%29.html?setCurrencyId=3

is 'Total War Warhammer - Trilogy EU (Steam)'

It's ~50% off right now, which is why the price is so low. But the site has this notice:

'IMPORTANT: This product is for EUROPE REGION (including the UK).

You must activate it using a European / UK IP Address.'

There's another edition for areas outside Europe, but it's much more.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Ok, that's normal though, most games now have region-locked keys. So it's not a Europe-only thing.
Note that that store isn't an official authorised seller though.
Still, even the global key (while actually above the normal retail price) is cheaper than buying separately which is its point.
Alternatively, wait a few weeks (it'll be on sale during the Steam Spring sale at the latest) and you can buy them from authorised sellers for more or less the same price (but at least you'll be sure it's legit). And you even have the option of not buying all of them in case you're not interested in the respective races immediately.

[vaa]

tww 1 expansion pack 1 as i call it. officially "WH2" is good on sale. the problem is, they never gave us the game mechanics we wanted with proper siege mechanics and naval action.
until that is added it is an unfinished game.

if they added the whole map, bugfixed everything and those 2 mentioned it would be worth double or higher the current pricetag.