Total War Vice President Roger Collum responded to the electorate through a blog post, thanking players and explaining that the team is currently working on the Omens of Destruction DLC patch for Total War: Warhammer 3 ...

As Collum put it, “The big challenge in making a game is trying to please everyone without watering things down to the point of basically ruining something special. In practice, it is impossible to please everyone. Instead, we always try to make the best decisions we can to make the game as good as we want it to be. We are always greatly influenced by you, directly and indirectly. That's why we released the latest patch as a beta first.”

Collum also looked to the future and outlined four changes we can expect. For starters, the practice of selling Blood Packs as DLC will end. Until now, “Total War” shipped without blood and required the purchase of an add-on that dyed soldiers red for each battle. This helped keep the base game's age rating low, and Creative Assembly made a few dollars from people who wanted everyone to look like Dragon Age characters: in the post-battle conversation scenes, Creative Assembly had the characters from “Dragon Age: Origins” The Creative Assembly made a small fortune from people wanting to look like the characters from Dragon Age: Origins in post-battle conversation scenes. In the future, however, games with appropriate blood will have blood as a basic feature, and age ratings will no longer be a factor. (If the rumors about the “Total War: Star Wars” game are true, you won't see blood there, but if “Total War: Warhammer 40,000” materializes, you will be drowning in it.)

Second, launchers die. Currently, no matter which storefront you have a Total War game on, when you launch it, the Total War launcher launches first. The launcher is not entirely pointless, as it also serves as a mod manager, and Collum says he would like to have something in place to manage mods before the launcher is removed. But one day it will be gone.

Next up is this: “Faction will no longer be an early adopter bonus.” Previously, if you pre-ordered a “Total War” game or purchased it in the first week of release, you got the first faction DLC for free. In “Total War: Warhammer 3,” for example, that meant the Ogre Kingdoms. In the future, the column says, “we will secure some form of bonus, such as a discount,” but the practice of having one faction for early adopters and making everyone else pay extra will die.

The final announcement is that the “Shadows of Change” DLC for Warhammer 3, which was released last year and set many teeth on edge, will be split. Like the subsequent expansions “Thrones of Decay” and “Omens of Destruction,” “Shadows of Change” will be offered as three separate add-ons.

These are all changes that will please fans and address what commentators have been complaining about out loud for some time. After these changes are made, though, I am sure they will find something new to fill the diapers.