And I tend to comply with EULA's, and thought I saw something in FB about one login, just like we have here. Though I could be completely wrong about that. I'll be happy if aliases are allowed, it will alleviate the privacy concern.
As best I can tell, there are still "games" in the sense that they begin and end. It looks like the length of a game is on the order of 1 week. If they ever moved to a pay-to-play system, many would just not join new games.The other big question is how much it might end up costing. The free ride is only gonna last so long, and then I predict a pay per play system. Or what you get free will be so crippled that you'll feel obligated to buy some bling.
Civ5 is less sophisticated than CivRev? Really?
If you wanted to apply the "expectations" argument, would it be wrong to say the expectations for civworld should be even lower?
Honestly, given some of the hatred of facebook I've seen expressed on just the civfanatics forums, I would guess there are just as many if not more civfanatics who have accepted that civworld simply isn't meant for them, than for civ rev.Good point - from a logical point of view. However, I think that there's also an emotional factor involved. A couple of years ago, it was easy for many CivFanatics to accept CivRev as something that simply wasn't meant for them - because they expected Civ5 to cater to the fans of the series.
That's a fair thing to ask.Now, since many fans are disappointed by Civ5, it's much harder to hold the skepticism back. With CivRev being targeted at newcomers to the series, Civ4 being a disappointment for many fans, and CivWorld being targeted at yet another group of players, I can understand that many fans are questioning the general direction that Firaxis is taking its flagship series to.
There's an understandable fear that they (and their preferred playstyles) are simply being left out of Firaxis' future plans. I think that's one of the things that vincentz wanted to point out by linking CivRev, Civ5, and CivWorld together as such a progression.
Reasonable fears, I agree. However Firaxis are not going to waste the IP of the Civilization flagship.
...X-Com, SimCity, Master of Magic, Warlords, Commandos, Master of Orion, Populous, Jagged Alliance -- hell, even Warcraft....
Well, no, but they might choose to use the IP to make games that doesn't appeal to "us old-timers". Considering the sales of earlier Civilization games, I think that would be a really stupid direction to take the IP in, but it's hardly unheard of for a company to do really stupid things. It wouldn't be the first time a well-known strategy IP has died on the vine: X-Com, SimCity, Master of Magic, Warlords, Commandos, Master of Orion, Populous, Jagged Alliance -- hell, even Warcraft is pretty much dead as a strategy IP today.
We can talk all day about what they might do.
"Yes, and are planning to pay for premium currency"
This is the exact reason I hate facebook and don't plan on paying it.