But to explain BB3... where do I start.
It all went downhill when Blood Bowl 1 became popular and Games Workshop, who hadn't supported the blood bowl games in decades at that point, started to realize that one of their properties was getting popular. The player community had maintained the game up until that point, even fixing the rules and refining them into what was originally called LRB6, or Living RuleBook 6, and to many these are still -the- best rules for the game.
Then Games Workshop offered to sponsor Cyanide, the eurojank developer that made the first game, to make Blood Bowl 2. And Cyanide announced they were going to make whole new rules and make this into an e-sport with microtransactions and a currency you can use in the store and maybe even win by gameplay, but player pushback and a lack of time and competency meant they basically had to cut all that and just make a better version of BB2. And eventually they released legendary edition, adding all the stuff that was missing from the first iteration, and it's still probably the best way to play the game online if you want an actual graphical interface.
Then a new parent company acquired cyanide and decided to do all the stuff they threatened to do in BB2, this time using the new rules that have since been put out by Games Workshop, and it's a giant dumpster fire. The upcoming season 1 patch (complete with a battle pass) is supposed to finally add the ability to run online leagues, which had been vital to the game for decades now. And maybe they'll even add the ability to reconnect after disconnecting, if we're lucky.
BB3 is bad. Real bad.
