Re: Civ VII: OMG they're selling horse armor

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 18:52 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Fri, 07 Feb 2025 10:38:36 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
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...I'm beginning to think I'll stick with IV, V and VI.

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You're not the only one.
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Apparently fewer people are playing "Civilization VII" than are
playing "Civilization 5" right now (and it's about half of those
playing "Civilization VI").* It's not a good sign when a game released
one month ago is being trounced by a game released a decade-and-a-half
earlier.** And the publisher's intent to push monetizations hasn't
made users any happier.
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* that's what they say!
https://www.pcgamesn.com/civilization-vii/steam-player-count
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** looking at SteamDB.info myself, as of this writing Civ7 is actually
/slightly/ ahead of Civ5 right now, but only just (16685 users to
Civ5's 16218. But Civ6 has over twice that amount --42778 users-- so
the original article isn't really inaccurate (the numbers change over
time) and regardless, it doesn't show Civilization 7 in a healthy
place

I think the same thing happened to Payday 3 and 2, with the SteamDB
numbers being dominated by the earlier game.
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