Blood Bowl 3

I've had this game since day 1 and it was so bad at launch I said I'd wait out the bugs and hope for the best. Here we are, years later, and the game is disgusting. The business model alone ruins anything this game has going for it. Your classic greedy rotating store with in game currency but made worse by how hard it is to get said currency in game. Like, it costs 750 for a new team so you'd think, regardless of that imaginary amount, that it would take around 3-4 hours of play to reach that imaginary number in order to keep people invested? Especially since you BOUGHT THE GAME with real money using an amount that actually means something. Nope, you get 10 warpstone every six days from the shop and every once and awhile you get 50 from leveling up... Disgusting. And the UI in this game is the worst. Even after getting used to it, it will screw you over in some way. The big one for me is rushes. You can click on squares that aren't marked as rush but if you pay attention you'll notice your percentage of succeeding shows a rush. Great. I watch a ton of streamers play this game and the screaming and disappointed sighs that come from people trying to do something only for the game to not let them/glitch out/or the clunky rules confused them or made them forget the order in which they have to do something could easily be a drinking game. Its okay to not be perfect, but being this frustrating will wear any player down. And the customization. How much more lazy and greedy can you get. In game currency that you barely get needs to be spent to make your players look slightly different from each other. Slightly different. I'm not spending anything on making the models look different if I need to sift pennies out of storm drains, excuse me I meant: wait 6 freaking days for 10 warpstone. If I spend 30-40 on a game I'd like a full video game with options and unlocks and a fun game to actually play. Not a free to play game that was done better in the past. Which, by the way, the older and better game was conveniently not on sale this past winter sale. Hmmmmmmmmmm isn't that odd that the better, older version, wasn't on sale after announcing a new season but this was for 12 dollars still? I couldn't convince my friends that this was worth 12 dollars if you promised me 30k in warpstone to trick them. Thanks to your greed I couldn't even use the older, better version of the game to get them to play it with me either. There is no foresight from whoever is making these financial decisions and the signs are all over the game. They are lucky that people LOVE the tabletop game enough to put up with this garbage and even defend some of it. I'm beyond frustrated, I'm disappointed. And last thing, I can't always play online. Sometimes I need to be able to pause and walk away for a bit, so I'll put on an AI game to kill sometime. Then sure enough I get interrupted and have to walk away for a bit. Naturally I should come back and my game will be fine right, always online blood bowl 3? Right always online blood bowl 3? You wouldn't KICK ME OFF BECAUSE I PAUSED MY AI GAME WOULD YOU ALWAYS ONLINE BLOOD BOWL 3?????

The gameplay itself is good, perhaps even the best out of the 3 games, personal bias on no visual representation of mutations aside. The reason why I can't recommend the game is the scummy business model of only being able to get new teams with in game currency that you get in packs so you always pay a bit more than what the team price is or via battlepass. Not to mention that it means no steam sale deals for them... All in all an ok game with a scummy business model.

Do you want to be gated out of half of the teams unless you want to pay $100, and then another $1000 to unlock all of the customization options for them? The monetization in this game is absolutely disgusting, save yourself the time and money and get 6 other games off of your Wishlist that aren't going to nickel and dime you over every inch of the game.

I will be repeating a lot of what other reviews have said. This is an effctive online port of the boardgame, and is updated to the more recent ruleset compared to Blood Bowl 2. There are many reasons to not buy this game. Most of the teams in the game arent available to play with the purchase, and require additional purchases, 7.50 usd plus tax. The game is very unstable, with lots of server side lag and crashes. There are some features not included that were included in Blood Bowl 2. These include much less available AI play, as well as no variety in difficulty in playing the AI. There are also a lot of cosmetic functions in Blood Bowl 2 that are now available behind a paywall. For online play, it is now harder to create a private league compare to Blood Bowl 2. Once I had some experiance in the game and understood it was far less than I was expecting, and used a very aggressive monetization scheme. I sought a refund, but was denied, because it took about 5 hours for me to understand I wanted a refund, and I was past the 2 hour limit.

Worse than BB2 in every possible way. The people responsible for this disaster should be ashamed. They took a great game and ruined it with an awful user interface.

I love the game of Blood bowl, but Blood bowl 3 is just a cash grab. I hate the season passes, I wish it was closer to blood bowl 2. My mutations have no visuals and I want them to, I would buy all the teams but I would also need to buy all the visual gear and you don't make warpstones at a good rate, with or without the season passes. give us all the gear customizations and if you want to charge for teams go for it, you don't do both.

The entire Cyanide history of Blood Bowl has only ever served to make me loathe the company more. I've never seen a game drive me, time and time again, to install java for a now ancient 8 bit, 2d alternative. 3D bloodbowl could have been so good. Instead, they took my beloved tabletop game, wrapped half it in micro transactions and the other half in a soiled diaper of a gameplay UI then shoved it at the market. I'd say the Warhammer world deserves better, but charging for new editions is clearly a business decision beyond blood bowl. I'd line up to preorder if the parade of slop was even half decent but Cyanide has never got remotely close to that. Every release was Payday 3 levels of fail or worse. BB 3 even more so than BB 2. The pushed back release of BB 3 led to an abysmal demo, so I wait until its 60% off and I still feel ripped off. Bad gameplay wheel and baffling UI choices mask lazy animation copied from previous blood bowls and then copied from player to player. Give it a zero animation mode if you're going to fail so hard. You want to chat with your opponent? Set up a discord add on with yet another login. Brutal. So much wrong with this game, the bad hides the worse. Again... and now a 3rd time. Thanks to the genius who made online and offline separate. Super cool of you to give the poors their own playground. Never change, Cyanide... I want to remember you just like this when you and everyone associated with you pitch your next abomination.

Just stick to BB2 the developers got insanely greedy and now charge for every little customization item and every team is $10. Beyond that day 1 bugs still happen and make you concede matches you were about to win. Eternal league is also a huge let down when it was so much better in BB2. In short: Don't give a cent to these people until they make some changes to their monetization method

I faced a player who was only interested in injuring/killing my team, that's fine as its a part of the game however.... Team injuries do carry over into future matches, so I conceded the game to save the team. I'm then strapped with a 720 hour online play ban for exiting to main menu, an option that is readily available with no warnings. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ disgusting