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[falconne]

I think this comment is just pure insanity.

A: Why wouldn't they appeal to a mass market.
B: I feel they made VERY minor sacrifices in this direction. Almost all of the changes were improvements anyway.
C: What is a proper Civ game? The Civ game YOU want to play? Because initially many wouldn't have thought Civ 3 or Civ 4 were proper Civ games.

I think the number of people annoyed with the direction the developers took is probably under 2% of their total consumers. I think most of the dissatisfied people are more annoyed with implementation, and that the dissatisfied people probably make up les than 10$% of the market. Have you seen how many games Total War sells despite every one of their games being terrible at release?

Those figures are your opinion. All the marketing around this release may have brought in a lot of mass market gamers, but they generally aren't the obsessive compulsive type who play TBS games like this much. I doubt they can depend on them for much repeat custom.

If every game tried to appeal to the mass market then every game would be an FPS, RPG or RTS. The guaranteed income for a franchise comes from its loyal fanbase and at least from the reaction on these forums, a lot of them aren't happy. The rest claim it's only dissatisfied players who are on the forums and that's their opinion.

Only the direction that Civ 6 takes, whether it continues the streamlined trend or goes back to complexity, will tell us where Firaxis and 2K think the money is.