This comment did not go down well on Steam. People saying they won't buy the game because there are too many women in it is fine with us - if that's their reason, we'd rather they didn't anyway.' Responding on Steam in August, a woman community content editor reiterated Creative Assembly's position on the matter: 'Total War games are historically authentic, not historically accurate - if having female units upsets you that much you can either mod them out or just not play. A cropped version of this image was then used by some to claim the March patch forces players to use female generals in every faction of the game. The update that added women to the game came out six months ago, on 20th March, but the recent complaints appear to have stemmed from the emergence an image, below, which shows a raft of female generals in one person's game. Total War: Rome 2 has suffered a Steam review bombing run over women characters and a recent update - but it turns out the game is working as intended.Ĭreative Assembly's PC strategy game, which came out in 2013, saw hundreds of new negative Steam reviews this week over the frequency with which women generals show up in the game and related claims about historical accuracy.

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