You're trying to dunk on me for confusing the Frontier Pass with an ordinary update but it doesn't really matter what sort of update it is because I *have* paid for this already; it's part of the game we all bought. Personally I don't like the direction they're taking the game regardless. I'm just expressing my opinion and you're making ad hominem attacks, bless your heart. I'm done with this thread.
Come on, the game is a product, when you buy a game you can see reviews, you have the promotion material you can test it. If you don't like it or feel is unfinished you should ask for your money back. And next time, look at what you buy before you buy it.
If you bought Civ 6 hopping that future updates would make the prize you paid worth it. And when that did not happen and you felt betrayed, you are the only one to blame, for using your wallet wrong. Granted this is something many game companies try to push as a standard, but we are the ones to blame for buying into that crap.
The thing that you should understand is that no company is required to change something to your liking after you buy it unless it is fundamentally broken or you were deceived into buying it, in which case the moment to complain has long passed regarding Civ 6, which is a 4-year-old game. And again your complain is even more absurd, since instead of discussing any problem the game may have, you are complaining about free optional content that you havent seen yet, as if that devaluates the product you got somehow.
Think about your position is in this way. Imagine you bought a car, and somewhere down the line the company sends you a free radio to put in your car as a gift. And then you decide to get angry cause you dont like this direction the company is having with radios, and you start to shout that you will not buy any other car form this company. This is what you are doing now. You are being ridiculous, and are kind of embarrassing yourself.
Now, you can discuss about what content would you like to be added for the game in an honest way, or you can endlessly complain on how badly you spend your money, which none of us cares about.
EDIT: I’m not using ad hominem; ad hominem is to attack the person to avoid addressing his argument. I pointed out that your argument is ridiculous and incorrect, and made you responsible for using it.
While I understand the "optional" argument, and "some people will like it" argument (I would have used them in the base game if they were available... and if I wanted to play the base game), I still have the opinion that "free update" is not a valid counter-argument to "use of development resources", as said before we paid for those resources with the base game, and the perception of said base to be in a "finished" state (ie one being a satisfied customer ready to buy the next product) is a matter of personal taste.
Now it's mostly artist development time, and they seem to have enough to keep them busy on a side project. Pretty sure the coding time is not lost either, as adding more AI flexibility in a scenario can be used for the base game when a specific state requires a specific behavior for example.
Weu didn't pay for all the future resources of Firaxis. If anything we adquired an undisclosed arbitrary amount of support for the game for an undetermined amount of time, that could have been cero. So no, this argument is invalid.
Also what money are we talking about?, is not NF, since you get this content regardless you have the pass or not. So are we saying that the money we may have paid for the game 4 years ago entile us to demand what do they add to the game now? Cause I don't think it works this way.
Any amount of support you get when you buy a videogame is not agreed upon when you buy it, unless it is a subscription model or something I have missed and cannot be applied to civ. Much less the nature of said support. So we like it or not, it makes cero sense to complain on the use of resources to give you something you have not paid for, on the basis of the money you have spent before.
You can argue that the game is faulty and those faults should be addressed. But that is a completely separated point he did not make. And still would require a complete lack of understanding how company resources work in this situation.
Company resources don't work like there is a predetermined amount assigned to the game and if they use them for something they cannot do a different thing. Now probably a small (and arbitrary) amount of resources are used in civ. And those resources are assigned to tasks according to executive decissions, removing content does not grant you more resources for the things you want. In this case, with less new content you also may have less resources and less support. After 4 years of support, whatever content u think the game should have and does not. The reason is not lack of resources, but more likely that Fxs does not care much about the things you or we care for.
