So this year theme ' s were Ancient Seas and Kawaii Invasion . Next year will be Monsters Vs Mechs and Festival of Spirits . Any ideas , was kinda thinking Miroku and Shippo but no clue what to do for Monsters Vs Mechs . <| sep |> I didn ' t get it because your comment was removed . <| sep |> but I suspect Warhammer licensing to keep this game at full price as long as possible with plenty of DLC profits to go around . That ' s not really how licensing works . Sure GW probably has a say in some of the decisions , mostly in the creative department regarding the portrayal of their IP . But them dictating whether or not the game has a sale or not would be highly unlikely . The licensing just means that a portion of the profits is shared with GW , along with some fees for using the IP in the first place . The publisher id est Sega , would be the one ultimately deciding that since they are , well , the publisher . You can just take a look at other games which use GW licences like Blood Bowl or some of the 40 k games , which have gone on sale not that long after release . this game isn ' t fresh whatever that could mean . its a good game , sure , but so is Civ VI and its already on sale . Not really a good comparison considering Total War Warhammer was sold at a reduced price on launch . And Civ VI is only at a 10 % price reduction , which is frankly not much , and Warhammer has had multiple opportunities for a deeper discount than that already . and just look at Doom which released this year at about the same time as TW Warhammer . Doom is constantly on sale and its not it did badly either , its a good game for a good price now . Again , not a very good comparison because of the different genres . Frankly speaking , while Total War is a very good selling game , strategy games are overall still quite a niche genre . Games like Civilization are pretty massive exceptions , but comparing it to a first person shooter title with such name recognition like DOOM is pretty unfair . Basically DOOM can afford to go on sale because it is pretty much guaranteed to get buyers . With more niche games you ' re unlikely to see sales for some time due to the fact that they want to make the most money from the relatively fewer purchases they get . I just hope some type of legit sale happens before xmas . this game can be cheap at certain , shady , places and I rather not go there I ' d much rather you didn ' t considering purchasing from those shady sites is literally worse than outright just pirating the game not that it is really possible with this game . Seriously , just wait for a sale , chances are the DLC are going to get discounted around the time of the Old World Edition . You ' re going to get more content by then , and at a lower price than you would now . Patience is considered a virtue for a reason , and grabbing a key from those grey market sites do more harm than good to anyone other than yourself .