[GS] Future Update?

[criZp]

An expansion where the player gets guillotined?

 

[darkace77450]

...for some reason this made me think French Revolution...

Because we're going to storm the Bastille (Firaxis HQ) if we don't get an announcement next week?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

So if it does happen next week, that means 12 weeks later (Feb 25th) is Carnival. What a marvelous coincidence *remembers the carnival mask on the shelf*.

@darkace77450 Do you remember Kate, the community manager before Pete? She was rather amused when we began to threaten storming the Bastille and singing songs from Les Mis during Civ V.

 

[Arianrhod]

I'm always surprised when people complain about the cost of Civ or its expansions. They essentially cost the same (or less) as a single night out to dinner or a move with a companion. And instead of getting a few hours of enjoyment, you're getting hundreds (or thousands!) of hours.

In my case, my complaints come down to a purely psychological issue: you cannot buy the bundles if you've already purchased the base game.

Right now, if I wanted to buy the last two expansions, it's almost cheaper for me to delete Civ 6 from my Steam account and buy the Platinum Pack than it is for me to buy the expansions; this only isn't the case because I actually bought the DLC for some reason. Civ 6 is the only game I've ever played where you're not allowed to buy relevant bundles if you already own the game, and to that end, I have a hard time mentally justifying the expansions because it will ultimately be cheaper to delete the entire game and buy the eventual Complete Edition than it would be for me to buy the expansions as they come.

It's barely even about the money at this point, it's about the fact every method of buying additional content feels inefficient and undesirable if you already own the base game. I feel like I'd be better off just straight-up getting one of the ports and playing the expansion that way if I really cared about anything the expansions introduced.

 

[darkace77450]

@darkace77450 Do you remember Kate, the community manager before Pete? She was rather amused when we began to threaten storming the Bastille and singing songs from Les Mis during Civ V.

That might have been before I joined this lovely community.

 

[The Kingmaker]

So if it does happen next week, that means 12 weeks later (Feb 25th) is Carnival. What a marvelous coincidence *remembers the carnival mask on the shelf*.

@darkace77450 Do you remember Kate, the community manager before Pete? She was rather amused when we began to threaten storming the Bastille and singing songs from Les Mis during Civ V.

This is actually utterly brilliant.

 

[Civinator]

They made some interesting labels for mixed drinks though.
https://twitter.com/FXS_MisterKevin/status/1197922392586309632?s=09

A speculation about that image: Yes, it shows a mix. Most of the ingredients that can be seen in that image could stand for civs, that are in that mix. It could be a cocktail of all civs that are appearing in Civ 6. Such a "mix" could be Civ 6 Complete.

 

[Potworny]

So if it does happen next week, that means 12 weeks later (Feb 25th) is Carnival. What a marvelous coincidence *remembers the carnival mask on the shelf*.

@darkace77450 Do you remember Kate, the community manager before Pete? She was rather amused when we began to threaten storming the Bastille and singing songs from Les Mis during Civ V.

When did the mask appear?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

When did the mask appear?

The video previewing the September patch.

 

[leandrombraz]

The mask was a reference to the Red Death, wasn't it?

 

[RohirrimElf]

It would be fun if a civ developer showed up on civfanatics and posted a gif eating a bag of popcorn. I bet the weekly developer meeting at firaxis office this week went like: “the civfanatics consensus of the next expenspanding is x. Lets do the complete opposite”.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

The mask was a reference to the Red Death, wasn't it?

I had asked Ed if the mask and skull were a reference to Masque of the Red Death. He answered by remarking how beloved Poe is there in Baltimore.

I chalked that down as a maybe.

 

[bite]

Well, I blame @bite for not being asleep. He has to be asleep for all important announcements.

I apologize for nothing

 

[Duuk]

Well, I blame @bite for not being asleep. He has to be asleep for all important announcements.

I apologize for nothing

Obviously this is the problem. Blame assigned.

 

[bbbt]

They had to drop a hotfix today for PS4 multiplayer issues. I don't think that would have affected a expac 3 announcement timeline, but possibly if there were marketing concerns about that being a distraction.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

They had to drop a hotfix today for PS4 multiplayer issues. I don't think that would have affected a expac 3 announcement timeline, but possibly if there were marketing concerns about that being a distraction.

If anything, I suspect they are either trying to avoid overlapping the marketing period with the current black Friday/cyber-Monday sale, or they arranged the 12 week marketing period to finish on Carnival.

 

[UWHabs]

If anything, I suspect they are either trying to avoid overlapping the marketing period with the current black Friday/cyber-Monday sale, or they arranged the 12 week marketing period to finish on Carnival.

I mean, generally speaking it wouldn't make sense to announce a new XP so close to a major release like they had last week, so I don't know why people even thought that we would have gotten an announcement around now anyways. And then with the Steam Autumn Sale on this week, I wouldn't have expected an announcement anyways.

Of course, once you get past here, you start to run into the Christmas season, so it kind of sucks to announce something, have a week or two of marketing, and then shut down the marketing over the holidays. So at this point, I would almost expect more that if there is another XP, they might just wait until after the holidays, announce in January for more of a March-April timeframe, rather than the February date they've hit the last couple years. Although if they like the Feb releases, then as the math goes, they basically need to announce it in the next week or so to have enough runway on the marketing campaign.

Now, I'm not a marketing manager, so maybe this is all just BS. And we also don't know if there is another XP coming - if the next "Release" is more of a spinoff variant like the Colonization/BE, then timing changes significantly. Or if they decide to do one-off DLC instead of a full XP, obviously that also changes things too. Or if they don't have anything and the next major release is Civ 7 and all they have before then are regular patches and maybe some map packs, then that also significantly changes things.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I mean, generally speaking it wouldn't make sense to announce a new XP so close to a major release like they had last week, so I don't know why people even thought that we would have gotten an announcement around now anyways. And then with the Steam Autumn Sale on this week, I wouldn't have expected an announcement anyways.

Of course, once you get past here, you start to run into the Christmas season, so it kind of sucks to announce something, have a week or two of marketing, and then shut down the marketing over the holidays. So at this point, I would almost expect more that if there is another XP, they might just wait until after the holidays, announce in January for more of a March-April timeframe, rather than the February date they've hit the last couple years. Although if they like the Feb releases, then as the math goes, they basically need to announce it in the next week or so to have enough runway on the marketing campaign.

Now, I'm not a marketing manager, so maybe this is all just BS. And we also don't know if there is another XP coming - if the next "Release" is more of a spinoff variant like the Colonization/BE, then timing changes significantly. Or if they decide to do one-off DLC instead of a full XP, obviously that also changes things too. Or if they don't have anything and the next major release is Civ 7 and all they have before then are regular patches and maybe some map packs, then that also significantly changes things.

Last year GS was announced on the heels of the Switch launch. Maybe that went badly and they created a different plan?

 

[blackcatatonic]

Still holding out hope for something next week. I think if there's nothing then we're probably looking at January at the earliest for an announcement.

Eagle Pursuit's Carnavale theory is very appealing to me (especially because it could suggest an Italian Civ of some kind... )

 

[Ondolindë]

Happy Thanksgiving to all in the US and those who celebrate it around the world! Many things to be grateful for.