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

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:17:42 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:55:58 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
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On 19/03/2025 18:52, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

...I'm beginning to think I'll stick with IV, V and VI.

You're not the only one.
 
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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You have to be a special kinda dev. to muck up the release of a Civ game.

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The problem is, I think, that "Civilization" is essentially, mature
software. Not the 4X genre, but the style of 4X that the
"Civilization" games offer. Sure, you can upscale the visuals a bit
but the formula is solved. If you muck around with it too much, then
it stops being a Civilization game, but if you don't much around with
it, then you give people no reason buy your newer version.
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There are still a lot of things you can do with the 4X genre, but
if you try to wedge those ideas into the Civilization framework,
you're going to have problems. This is an issue the franchise has had
since its inception, and its been struggling with it with every
iteration. Sometimes they manage to make it work, but it's added
overhead to every release.
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Just discovered I have Civ 1 for Windows 3.11 and it works perfectly in
DosBox!

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Zag

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