Have to start new AP game for the Orcs campaign? RU Kidding Me?!?

[brettjv]

So I pre-ordered CW from Steam along w/Armored Princess like a week ago, and I've played AP for many, many hours now, fully expecting to continue my campaign with the added content of Orcs on the March once CW unlocked.

But now I go to play and discover that my AP saves are not there when I start up OOTM?!?

I've even tried copying my AP saves in the save game folder with orcs_ at the beginning like the saves are formatted ... still not there in the save list.

I just have to say, if this is the intended behavior, I am officially FURIOUS right now.

What other expansion pack does this, when all the expansion is an add-on to a main game with some new quests, spells, and units, basically?

Off the top of my head, games I've played recently where I didn't have to restart after installing an expansion are Borderlands, Fallout 3, Titan Quest, and Sacred 2 ... and I know there's MANY others that have worked like this.

Can you imagine if they did this on WoW ... if you bought WotLK and later found out that in order to play it you had to restart your entire game and play through WoW to level up all over again?

This is garbage IMHO, and might just be the most infuriating thing I've ever seen a game developer do. It's not like AP is some short game that people won't care about starting all over again

NOWHERE in any promo materials was it explained that the add-on campaign would require a brand-new game of AP be started. Something like this should be in big bold letters everywhere the game is advertised, because NOBODY else does this EVER (edit: okay, not never, but ... usually not)