What the hell are you talking about?
I am fan and modder of Civ5 and I have played it for 1236 hours according to Steam.
I have said Civ5 on a release date was a technical disaster because it was technical disaster - AI couldn't do literally anything - and I mean anything, from economy to killing barbarian - the game was unstable mess, there were more bugs here than in Amazon Rainforest, there was not such thing as balance anywhere, there was no other option than war conquest, AI was impossible to ally and only was declaring war on everything, there was no religion, no espionage, no replays, no multiplayer (unstable), almost no mods (hella lot of restrictions), city states were buy for win and naval combat didn't exist.
And I was patient enough to approve Firaxis hard work and finally somehow making brilliant game out of such complete disaster, but I thought four years were enough to make next game based on Civ5 engine to finally have:
- decent AI, especially as since half of a year there is amteurish Civ5 MOD which manages to repair everything Firaxis wasn't even close to repair about AI
- non frustrating diplomacy
- functionable interface
- balance
- stable multiplayer (yes, I had crashes while attempting to play multi BE)
without next year of desperate patches, excuses, saying a game has a 'potential' or my need to pay more than 50 dollars for expansions necessary for a game to be playable.
BE is basically reskinned mod for Civ5 which has all problems of Civ5 unfixed + already we can see has a lot of its own problems. As I said already two times in other threads, look at Endlees Legends: non AAA game released by new, fresh, young small company which is polished, balanced and perfectly playable on a release day without need of desperate patching and without such idiotic excuses.
It is pretty sorry then that average player's rating of the game is even worse than rating of the base release date Civ5 -
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/sid-meiers-civilization-beyond-earth
6.3 vs 6.8
not to even mention BE vs BNW: 6.3 vs 8.5 - you can't escape from general reception.
EDIT
When I checked Civ5 ratings for the base game, they were like 6.8 mixed for years, suddenly I look they are 7.7 lol like many people revised their comments basing on patched, polished Civ5. Still, 7.7 vs BE's 6.3 is even bigger difference!