I agree with the sentiment that Firaxis should patch this as a matter of professional pride. That said, while this can effect every vanilla player, the number of players that will troubled I think is very few. Maybe less than a hundred? Surely, if most vanilla players noticed and complained, Firaxis would have fixed it!
I dont really understand this assertion. I assume that vanilla V is the first civ game for many. Most probably like it enough, then go on to other games.
Those that really like V will purchase and then play GnK or BNW exclusively. Both of those broad groups are unlikely to even notice the bug.
So this bug only troubles those who would like to obsessively play vanilla to the exclusion of GnK or BNW. Are there really more than 100 players like that?
I fully disagree.
I compare your arguments to a car manufacturer that goes like this: Most people who like Mercedes will add to their car the basic options that include LED headlights. Therefore, we won't fix the halogen headlights that turn off every 2 minutes, requiring the driver to turn them on again repeatedly during the night.
It's that bad. I'm on a marathon game and have no orders to issue on turns. Yet, I have to end the turn, have the worker suddenly wake up, check if his job is complete, reissue the order if not, then end the turn again. And that's been going on forever, and there is no end in sight.
It's that bad.
I feel your claims are based on your personal bias rather than statistics. Too many assumptions.
I'm a long time Civ player, going through 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Colonization and Alpha Centauri. I do not buy expansion packs because the value isn't there. When games come out (i.e. vanilla), they are complete. We even pay full price for them, right?
Also, how many people buy a game, enjoy it, but don't purchase expansion packs? That number is beyond any of ourselves. I'm in that group. You seem to not be.
Besides that, of the people who sometimes buy expansion packs to games they enjoy, what is the percentage of games they enjoy to which they buy expansion packs? I know zero people who have bought expansion packs to ALL games they enjoy (except for people who enjoy very few games, of course).
Moving along, if Civ5 is really the first Civ for many, that only makes it more embarrassing to have such an irritating flaw in game mechanics to first timers. Adding to that is the fact Civ is a very slow game for today's standards, and making a slow game demand even more patience is very bad for the franchise.
Finally, what is the effort required to review a couple of IF statements in code that interrupt a workers project? We payed a AAA price for a AAA game from a big developer, and I don't expect treatment below Indie level support.
There is no excuse.