When will you get Civ5?

[TheDS]

I don't know about you guys, but I don't like buying games right after release. Obviously there are quite a few people who disagree with me on this, or the industry wouldn't be in the state it's in.

I don't like paying to be a beta-tester. It's supposed to work the other way around.

I don't like paying $50 for a game when, with a little patience, it will be in the bargain bin inside a year for $20, AND it will have some of the more grievous bugs patched.

I don't like buying a new anything until I've heard from other people who bought it and gotten some of their opinions. (Assuming I can't take whatever it is for a testdrive myself.)

I do understand not all bugs can be caught by playtesters before they number in the millions. I do understand there comes a point you have to release the thing to the wild. I do understand Firaxis generally doesn't release games that don't even run before the first patch or three comes out (unlike some companies). I do understand that when something reaches rockstar status, there are far more mindless drones, many of whom are proud to admit it, who will pay anything to be the first to own, if not play, a new game they really want instead of taking the thing off the pedestal and having some patience.

But the question still remains: when will you be getting Civ5?

[Jamuka]

I pre-purchased the deluxe edition already. I usually wait to buy games... but civ 5 deserves an exception.

[killmeplease]

i made preorder on amazon
i firmly believe that i will like it!

[Willem]

Well if I'm going to be forced to use Steam in order to play, which is going to be the case according to what I've been reading, then never.

[Glassfan]

After two expansion packs, three patches, a new computer, and time for our friends to generate some fan-content, I'll be happy to buy Civ V - I figure 3 or 4 years down the road.

[plasmacannon]

I usually wait 1-2 years, because, prices have got way out of hand lately, and the PC games tend to have bugs unlike the gamestation counterparts.
Civ has a History of trying to sell us 1/3 of the game at a time.
So, you have to wait until the rest of it is out to determine if it is a good game, or so-so with alot of current hype.
Especially, with all of this backpedalling they are doing on game mechanics.
Sure the graphics look nice, but, a new paint job won't encourage me to buy a lame car either.
I grew in the age of Microsoft! Never buy version 1.0 of anything! I learned.
I didn't buy an electric car when they came out either.
I let others be the guinea pigs, lol.

[Maeztu]

I will wait at least for a year, or when the first expansion comes.

I commit the mistake of buying the Civilization IV Special release edition and my computer had a ATI graphics card, it was supposed to work but it didn't.

Not funny.

EDIT:

Oh, I forgot, I have the 2 CDs version of Civilization IV, with the "put this CD to play the game" in the wrong disc.

Not a good experience when you have pre-ordered a game, waited for 2 months, had the game 2 days later than the release day and wasted 4 hours figuring out how to make the game run.

[Greybriar]

I won't be buying it. Steam = No Sale as far as I'm concerned.

[Semmel]

I once made the mistake to buy a game "unseen", i.e. on release date. I loved Master of Orion 2 so much, that I bought MoO3 as soon as i could get my hands on it. And it was crap. It just didnt had the spirit of MoO2, it didnt had the balance and its stupid real itme fights were.. well.. boring.

Since then I never pre-ordered a game again. I wait at least a few days, read reports and stuff like that, read comments in forums like this one. But I will not buy it on day 0. If I buy it, depends on your reactions. And sometimes its just a question of "when" or "for how much money" rather than "if". But my point is: I get it not before week 2 or so after release.

Semmel

[Shurdus]

My fiance will buy it for me on the first day or release.

[Loppan Torkel]

I'll probably buy it pretty early, but might wait to see what the plans for DLC and expansion packs are.

[wilebill]

The Steam deal has introduced too much uncertainty. It is now on my not to buy ever list. Year or two down the road when we see how things go, I will think it over again.

If Civ 5 uses the nickel and dime the player to death model, it for sure is a bad idea.

I like Civ, but there are a lot of good games coming down the road. And to be sure, there are good games on my shelf I have never had time to play. Probably most serious players are in the same happy situation.

The only thing that can restore confidence at this point would be a full and detailed disclosure of how Civ 5 will be sold and a careful explanation of what they intend to do with Steam and what they do not intend to do.

Of course, this was a deal between 2K and Valve. Firaxis may have been out of the loop. Sid Meier may have no idea what is going on.

[Taalen]

They just announced it requires Steam, so I won't be buying it. Thanks a lot, Firaxis

[Chalks]

Preordered yesterday. Looks like it's £10.00 reduced for preorders atm.

[snowlyon]

no plans on buying immediately. as a couple people have mentioned, a few years down the road I "might" take a look at it again for consideration but given the current information available and published I am not overly optimistic. a shame really but so it goes....~

[CivFanMUC]

[x] Other

I cancelled my Amazon preorder yesterday right after the Valve/2KGames cooperation was announced.
Will buy it as soon as it becomes free of steam and/or other DRM-restrictments

[bhoffarth]

I usually don't pre-order games since they are expensive and often times do have bugs. However, Civilization is the one exception to that rule. I have been playing this game since version one came out and will not wait one more moment then the download takes. Life is short and you have to be willing to indulge in your gameplay delights when they happen.

[Samus_au]

Will be pre-ordering it on payday, and will get a mysterious illness for a few days in September that just force me to stay at home...

[Fosse]

Bargain bin. I was a 1st day purchase until this week's news about DRM that requires activation for the game to work. That devalues the product enough for me that I can see myself picking up Civ 5 Complete for $5 in a few years, instead of buying the game and its expansion packs for full price.

[kochman]

Count me into the no-Steam group...
Looked forward to this, but I guess this means I will be using my mods a lot longer, and then learning more modding for Civ4.

If they get rid of the Steam requirement, I will buy it that day.
I don't want to have to connect to the internet to play a game, at any point, that I already BOUGHT with my own