Greetings Commanders!

As some of you may have heard, Creative Assembly has just signed a deal with Netease to publish Total War titles in China, and you may be wondering how this affects ARENA. (The FAQ for that is here: https://www.creative-assembly.com/blog/creative-assembly-partners-netease)

After we shut down the game in February, we thought that ARENA’s journey had come to an end; with members of the ARENA team being moved onto various other projects at CA. Fortunately however, as part of this deal Netease will publish Total War: ARENA in China. We moved some members of the old team back onto the project, and they have been working on adapting the servers and producing new content.

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What does this mean for you?

Total War: ARENA will not be directly accessible in Western countries, and while we are disappointed that we won’t be able to jump back into battles with our old community, there’s also excitement for ARENA’s future. We’re currently in a stage of adaptation; finding out what the Chinese market needs from us and making sure ARENA lives up to that. We want to ensure that ARENA has the best possible life it can in China.

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Will it ever come back to the West?

To be honest, we don’t currently have the capacity to provide servers and support both inside and outside of China, but we won’t rule it out for the future. That won’t be a quick decision as a lot of it depends on how well ARENA does in China, but we’re determined to give it our best shot. We still see a lot of potential in the West, and NetEase agrees.

When we know any more about ARENA’s future in other markets, we will let you all know.

If you have any questions, please comment below and I’ll do my best to answer what I can.

Thanks,

Josh