Wartales 2025 and game maintenance philosophy

Wartales was already a good game when I played it first in early access in 2021. It got a lot better and had much more content when I played it on release in 2023. Now, another two years later, I am playing Wartales again, and it is absolutely excellent. The game is on Community Patch 5, meaning a huge amount of community comments over the years have been used to improved everything. And there are several DLC. I bought the tavern DLC and the pirate one, and only stopped buying more DLC when I noticed that when playing in region locked mode, it doesn't make much sense to buy a DLC for which you don't have the level yet. The tavern DLC is a great side mini game which can be accessed from level 1.

I really appreciate how Shiro Games is maintaining Wartales with patches and content DLCs. There is even a roadmap for 2025, when most other games at best have a roadmap at release and then never again. My Steam library is full of games that were released in a not quite finished state, and then either only got a few hotfixes or no patches and content addition at all, while the devs had moved on to their next game. Then there are games like Civ 7, where it feels as if the DLCs contain just content that has been cut out from the original main game, and fixes to major gameplay issues and bugs are slow to come.

The only downside is that I already have too many games to play, and coming back to games with a good rate of maintenance and content addition adds to the list of things I would like to play. But that is certainly a good first world problem to have.