Taking the quality of vanilla Civilization into a consideration, I take it that their target audience is not the old fanbase but some young newbies, children.
My concern is that Firaxis wants to make milions of dollars just because the game is named Civilization. That they want to sell a few ideas that do not necessarily work as intended to. They sell a poor quality game; they never fix it and abondon it after 3 years (Paradox still supports CK2, new DLCs, patches etc.) because they think "kids" will be happy with it. This is their target audience, which is less demanding etc. They can, however, destroy this franchise in the future - just as UBI destroyed a HOMM series, for instance. I think Firaxis should be punished for what they did to Civ 5.
I mean, they cannot expect that a community of modders will fix their game. Modders modify a game, not fix them. Otherwise, this is a terrible mentality.
This is a milions of dollars income to Firaxis. Why do some gamers even approve it, not to mention support it? Before they can earn milions of dollars, they should provide a quality first. Unfortunately, other BIG companies do the same - take advantage of gamers. Expectations and demands are constantly rising among gamers; and they should not only be aware of that, but also they should be able to satisfy them/us, at least in the respect of quality and challenge.
My concern is that Firaxis wants to make milions of dollars just because the game is named Civilization. That they want to sell a few ideas that do not necessarily work as intended to. They sell a poor quality game; they never fix it and abondon it after 3 years (Paradox still supports CK2, new DLCs, patches etc.) because they think "kids" will be happy with it. This is their target audience, which is less demanding etc. They can, however, destroy this franchise in the future - just as UBI destroyed a HOMM series, for instance. I think Firaxis should be punished for what they did to Civ 5.
I mean, they cannot expect that a community of modders will fix their game. Modders modify a game, not fix them. Otherwise, this is a terrible mentality.
This is a milions of dollars income to Firaxis. Why do some gamers even approve it, not to mention support it? Before they can earn milions of dollars, they should provide a quality first. Unfortunately, other BIG companies do the same - take advantage of gamers. Expectations and demands are constantly rising among gamers; and they should not only be aware of that, but also they should be able to satisfy them/us, at least in the respect of quality and challenge.