Not worth it. Game is fun but dev effort is focused more on pushing content drops than optimisation, game constantly becomes unplayable and then the devs drag their feet patching out the crash issues.

Even once the current batch of awful performance and crashing is patches out, we will just wind up in the same situation in a few weeks/months.

Constant annoying popups flooding you with completely meaningless information make this game a complete chore.

Entirely not worth it.

CA/Sega is more interested in selling new factions than making an engaging game.

The entire campaign is more frustrating than fun, with the AI constantly making extremely suicidal and spiteful decisions that really only exist to slow you down and be mildly annoying. You will watch as they consistently decide to completely forgo any sort of settlement defence or logical strategic plan to occupy that one settlement all the way in your backwaters that you now have to walk for 3 turns to take back.

Not only this but the AI cheats constantly and blatantly. I do understand that the cheating is required to some extend to make the AI actually function. But most of this cheating just serves to either shatter any sort of illusion that they are indeed playing by the rules, or make them frustrating. The AI is capable of summoning armies out of thin air, a turn after being defeated, respawn it's lords in 3x/4x the usual time and making full moves more than once in a turn.

And even with all this blatant cheating the AI fails to present any sort of cohesive threat, you will still be completely unbeatable in around 50 turns time and all you will be doing is playing ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ whack a mole as the AI constantly spends its time playing peak-a-boo with you until they finally decide it's time to trigger the ambush that they could see anyway.

Bad rats.