Recent content by Eagle Pursuit

*looks around* Ugh, another MMORPG!

I really like that one!

We will have to see. I suspect that these Civ 6 challenges are not getting the level of resources to do them justice because Civ 7 is pulling the lion's share of the staff's hours and funding. If Civ 7 has challenges and they aren't greatly improved over this... well, that's a lack of courage...

The point of this is two-fold: 1) to do a fun little thing that keeps casual players engaged so they notice when the marketing for Civ 7 eventually begins. 2) It gives players who didn't buy Babylon a chance to test drive the DLC for a month. Maybe they'll pitch a few bucks for it now.

https://civilization.2k.com/news/monthly-challenges-on-steam/ CHALLENGE 6: THREE STARS EACH The Babylonians were the first to record the cadence of the stars and planets in the sky. As Hammurabi, can you lead your people into space and secure a Science victory before May 14? Technology and...

It's not typical for Firaxis to tease things before the marketing push starts. They play their cards close to their vest.

It's just a lull. This is pretty normal, considering content and patching for Civ VI have dropped off and we haven't received a formal announcement of when the next game is due. People are doing other things, and that's healthy.

Next week's challenge is titled "The Ides of March", however counterintuitively, it's about the Fall of Rome. You still play as Julius, so that's appropriate. Another anachronism is that you start with Legions, but haven't researched them yet. It's pretty odd. Surprisingly, Carl is just...

The livestream starts in 44 minutes, for anyone who is interested

I'd say they're at least getting the livestream machinery (metaphorically speaking) up and running again in preparation.

Firaxis is doing a livestream of this challenge on Friday Friday March 8th, 11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern They will also tease the March challenge, which begins next week https://www.youtube.com/@civilization EDIT: Announcement on X:

No, it's supposed to continue until the 12th. Perhaps you accidentally booted up offline? Thr Fosse branch, where the challenges were QA tested in the Autumn has been updated again. To me, this suggests that the original set was only for 4 months and they're preparing a new set.

This game isn't for us. It's a mobile game made for the world's biggest mobile market. It happens to have Civ assets that its maker bought from 2K and that's it. It's not worth our attention.

I certainly think that having an overt reminder in the game that you don't own a DLC or expansion is intentional. It wears you down until you give in and buy it.

I will go on and extrapolate the Civ 6 monetization model per this meme: Entree: vanilla Extra toppings: First flight of DLCs Drink: RNF Side dish: GS Dessert: NFP Digestif: LP