Civ VII Post-mortem: Crafting a redemption arc

[Core Imposter]

Going out of your way to hide info from the players?

That sounds like an interesting decision, but I don't think that is exactly what Sid had in mind.

 

[tman2000]

biggest reason is “casual players” are a much more limited market with a game that is graphically demanding enough to require dedicated hardware (console or gaming pc), which wasn’t the case with civ rev

You know I did only ever play it because it was the iPhone civ. And, iPhones were not that powerful back then.

 

[tman2000]

The fact that they didn’t expect such a negative reaction kind of underlines my point about the dangers of only having an “in” group of administrative elites.

The negative reaction was IMMEDIATE and pretty vocal from the first moment the civic reform was made public, the problem was the “in” group discounted and marginalized us as a “vocal toxic minority”, and places like the Forum was soft suppressed by brigading, selective moderation etc.

Then the barbarians came and so did logical consequences.

Tale as old as time.

Maybe it's time for Firaxis to "civ-switch" into the Eastern Firaxian Game Studio and the Holy MicroProsian Studio, where the latter will produce "Sid Meier's Historio" and the former will produce "Ed Beach's Civilization."