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Well, we know they are still working on stuff for Civ V. A few map packs came out a few months ago, and Bison, in the Steam database, has turned out to be a renovated scenario and should be out soonish. So they are still making money off this iteration. If they are working on VI, it's still a long way off.
I'm sort of on the fence. I feel Civ V has reach the threshold of feature bloat. If they add anything else, the game experience will get bogged down in minutiae. On the other hand, it's still pretty fresh as far as graphics and gameplay are concerned. I don't feel like a successor is required at the moment. Perhaps they will come out with a spin off for Civ V like Colonization or Alpha Centauri. Who knows?
If and when Civ VI vanilla comes out, it will be more comparable to Civ V vanilla than BNW. It will be stripped down to the basic features with maybe a hand full of innovations and probably in need of balance and bug fixing patches. Expansions will add complexity and features later on. That's their tried and true business model for the series. To expect anything else would be ignorant of the series history.
I'm sort of on the fence. I feel Civ V has reach the threshold of feature bloat. If they add anything else, the game experience will get bogged down in minutiae. On the other hand, it's still pretty fresh as far as graphics and gameplay are concerned. I don't feel like a successor is required at the moment. Perhaps they will come out with a spin off for Civ V like Colonization or Alpha Centauri. Who knows?
If and when Civ VI vanilla comes out, it will be more comparable to Civ V vanilla than BNW. It will be stripped down to the basic features with maybe a hand full of innovations and probably in need of balance and bug fixing patches. Expansions will add complexity and features later on. That's their tried and true business model for the series. To expect anything else would be ignorant of the series history.