Ok.

I sympathize with the OP. To purchase a game only to see the next generation completely blow it out of the water can be a hard pill to take. Nevertheless, imo it would still be well worth the puchase.

In my  case, I bought the BETA. There were ZERO promises in place in what to expect as an end result with FE, so it's $40 well spent whether you got what you wanted or didn't. The fact that I didn't get my wishlist developed doesn't mean that's it's a failed game....just that's it's a different game that what I thought it was going to be.

And you know what, I'd GLADLY do it all over again with LH, knowing full well that it's only a predecessor to the third game of this series, which undoubtedly will be even more fleshing out of the current engine. If the improvements that have been happening continue to happen, $120 is a SMALL price to pay for the next 1000hours+ of game time.

Now, the fact that LH is only on steam dramatically and unfortunately changes my purchase decision when it come to LH, but I'll still offer complete support and opinion with as many playthroughs and debates I come across in the hopes that something I mention will be of positive influence to the game and will make it that much better. This is of course in the hopes that LH will one day be released on gog or something as a final standalone product with no further updates to occur. SD will get my money at that point.

If you have FE then LH will only cost you $20. You couls also just wait for a sale and get it even cheaper.

Yep. Makes sense. You shouldn't buy it.

So, what did you all do with your weekends?

I could be wrong but I think that Legendary Heroes is FE with LH built into it. Other than removing Influence (thank god) there are a lot of editions.

1. Every weapon I have picked up has a combat skill the wielding unit can use.

2. Champions now appear to you when you get enough Fame, likewise Baron's Letters now gives a bunch of Fame.

3. The number of items has increased, and there are more "ruins" types on the map.

4. The new map size helps a lot of the problems with AI by giving more space for man, fallen and monster to roam.

5. Rather than being given a random selection of traits when you level up, you choose what you get from a perk tree.

6. Right after downloading FE: LH on Steam (I got the discount then used steam key) I was able to use map pack right away.

7. Remember the techs that give you bigger group sizes for units? Now, you upgrade them manually which is good.

Legendary Heroes is NOT a "new game" in the sense of "Civ4: Colonization", but a new game in the sense of "Civ4: Warlords built in".

I don't think they've done anything wrong here. They've evolved the game and they've made an expansion to it, expansions cost money. You get LH cheaper if you already owned FE so that's a fair deal. I don't mind spending money on these games because they are great and I want to support their efforts.

If you feel that spending money on LH is unfair, then don't - stick to FE which is plenty fun.

I gots it for FREE! :_) See you shoulda bought into Elemental when it was all brand new back in what was it 2010. ;_) I gots FE AND LH for FREE! :_)

I do symphathize with you though having to pay out soooooooooo much money for what basically is just a PATCH over the origional. But, thanks for supporting Stardock so that those of us who get all this for FREE can continue getting new better updates in the future when the become bargain binned priced. FE and LH will keep me happy for a longgggggggggg time now.

Some people live to whine and complain. Why be angry because Stardock still invest in making new and better versions of the game we love? Would the OP feel better about it if they dropped making expansion packs, and halted the development of this game? I want them to make as many expansions as possible for this game, and guess what, development cost time and money.

And to answer OP's question: You should buy it because you'll love it and because you deserve it.

LH seems just like an expansion, for which you would pay somewhat less than the original in other games (eg civ). That's exactly the case here assuming you already own the original game. Otherwise consider it as buying the original game + expansion.

I guess it depends on if you see it as a patch or an expansion. I think it's got too much new stuff in it to be called a patch, so I disagree with a few people in this thread calling it a patch, although I can understand people calling it that. As "expansions" go it is a little lightweight.

I feel the pain of the OP.

I try to think of it this way when it happens to me:

• The cost of X equaled the value of X to me.  
• I got what I thought it was worth at the time
• Remember this next time I have to hae somethign RIGHT NOW.
• 

My question is the same as the OP's - "Why the hell should I buy Legendary Heroes?" - but coming from a different angle. I have no objection to expansion packs, dlc, etc as long as they add enough value to the game to be worth it (though obviously I'd prefer these things for free ) but is LH really worth $20 to me, given that it's half the price of the original game?

So - why should I buy it? I've really not seen that much about what it adds apart from the Champion upgrade paths and the promise of 'better tactical battles'. I'd love better battles, something closer to AOW than what we have with FE, but are they that much better in LH and if so, what makes them that much better?

Please - sell me on this expansion.

And I guess the only other thing is.... if you're playing with lots of mods they most likely won't work (yet) in LH... so if you're not so keen on "vanilla" maybe also factor that in.

Nothing wrong with that opinion, I'd check back in May when it is closer to release and see if it is worth it to you then.